Twitter Tools “ Part 10 “ Blogging

If you didn ‘t know how to make blogging and twitter meet, check these out:

• Add to Any (plugin) “ Help readers share, save, bookmark, and email your posts and pages using any service, such as Facebook, Twitter, Digg, Delicious, and over 100 more social bookmarking and sharing sites. The button comes with Add to Any ‘s customizable Smart Menu, which places the services visitors use at the top of the menu, based on each visitor ‘s browsing history.
• TweetMe (plugin) “ Automatically shrinks and sends your url to twitter and lets your users share your content on twitter. There is also a non-wordpress version located here
• TwitPress “ Submits a user definable tweet to your twitter account notifying any twitter followers or friends that a new blog entry has been published on your blog (or an existing published entry has been edited). Supports inclusion of a permalink to your blog posting in the tweet.
• TwitterCounter “ Allows you to integrate TwitterCounter badges on your blog.
• TwitThis “ TwitThis is an easy way for people to send Twitter messages about your blog post or website.
• MyTwitter “ MyTwitter allows users to display their recent Twitter status updates (tweets) on their WordPress site and update their status through the Options page. Includes customization options including number of recent twitters to display, formatting options, and stylesheets. It can be called as a function or used as a widget.

I copy-pasted some of the descriptions from their original websites, I hope you don ‘t mind

Try ‘em out, enjoy them, and don ‘t forget to comment on this post.

Cheers!

Twitter Tools “ Part 9 “ Mobile Clients

We ‘ll talk a little about mobile clients, email clients, IM, widgets, etc, as we know twitter supports updating by phone and many other ways. Actually this is what twitter was built for, to give the users the possibility to update their status from anywhere, even if they don ‘t have internet connection.

As for mobile clients (I ‘m not talking about updating by SMS, that ‘s supported by every cell phone, but regular apps that you can install and run from your mobile):

• TwitterBerry “ It works over the data network, so you don ‘t need to use SMS
• TwitterMail “ Tweet via email, its name says everything
• OutTwit “ Update via outlook
• TwitterIM “ Same as Tiwttermail

There are also few widgets and addons supported by firefox and opera, if you need any of them simply google for firefox twitter add-on  or opera ¦.  and you ‘ll find plenty of them for sure.

See ya next time!

Twitter Tools “ Part 8 “ Desktop Clients

This is probably the funniest part of twitter tools, the desktop clients. You can get your replies / messages without destroying your F5 key on your keyboard

So, my help for you on this issue:

• Twhirl “ I started using it few days ago and I must say I enjoyed playing with it. The coolest thing seems to be the retweet button (not present on twitter.com)
• TweetDeck “ Many say it ‘s crashing, I didn ‘t try it to be honest, but it seems promissing
• GTwitter “ As almost every software on this planet, the twitter desktop clients have an equivalent for linux as well
• Witty “ Twitter for Vista
• TwitterPod “ Twitter client for mac. I don ‘t have a mac so I didn ‘t try it.
• Twitterific “ Another one for mac
• Snitter “ This one has a version for Mac and Windows as well. Didn ‘t try it but seems to be cool

If you ‘re using other desktop clients, simply reply to this post and I ‘ll be happy to add them here.

Twitter Tools “ Part 7 “ Collecting information

Today we ‘re going to talk about tools that ‘ll help you get info from twitter to use for market research, your curiosity, new blog posts, statistics, etc (leave it to your imagination)

• TweetScan “ They claim to be an all-in-one solution. It can search on twitter, identi.ca and many more.
• Retweetist “ If you ‘re ranked on this website, this means your tweet is being retweeted a lot
• TwitBuzz.com “ It was suffering last time when I tried it
• TwitScoop “ Hottest twitter trends
• TweetBeep “ Keep track of you conversations, your messages, etc
• TweetNews “ News ranked based on related tweets
• Monitter “ Real Time twitter monitor

Enjoy!

Tweetme For Other Platforms

Hi

For those of you who asked for a tweetme button valid for other platforms (other than wordpress), good news. It ‘s here.

Installation instructions:

• download the zip from here
• inside that zip there ‘s an index.html file. Open it with notepad or whatever and select everything inside
• paste the copied text into your pages (of course, if your platform supports this “ it ‘s best to ask first)
• you ‘re good to go

Cheers

PS:

• It ‘s platform independent. If you have   a browser, it should work
• If anything goes wrong or you discover any bug, report here

Twitter Tools “ Part 6 “ Network Management

Manage your tweeties and find more using these services.

• TwitterLocal “ Filter tweets by location
• FellowCost “ Find out how annoying will be to follow a specific user on twitter. Pretty funny
• TweetWheel “ Find out how many of your friends know each other
• Qwitter “ Sends you a message when someone stops following you on twitter. Useful if you don ‘t have thousands of followers. And I hope it doesn ‘t do it by crawling all your followers ¦
• Who should I follow “ Gives you suggestions of who you should follow by studying your tweets (I think)
• SocialToo “ I ‘ve said before about this. It ‘s pretty cool, you can auto follow your latest followers or send them direct messages. It also gives daily reports on who followed or unfollowed you during the last 24hrs
• Tweepler “ Uhm ¦ not very impressed with this one. I ‘d love a bulk remove feature for those who aren ‘t following me. Guys, if you see this, add it. PS: I like your color scheme
• TwitDir “ Off for maintenance, lol. I ‘m feeling that site down  effect again.
• Tweelow “ Twitter yellow pages (never thought I ‘ll see this)
• Just Tweet It “ Find other twitters like you ( I think based on your posts).

Anyway, play with them and let me know which one to delete