Twitter Tool Tuesday – BirdHerd

21/02/2012 By

Birdherd markets itself as “Twitter made easy for groups & teams”. The idea is that there doesn’t have to be a single login for multiple people to post from the same Twitter account. After setting up a group of people for the Twitter account, posting from it is “as easy as sending a direct message to the group twitter account”.

Without the need for sharing a single accounts username and password, Birdherd makes it possible to authorise (and un-authorise) multiple users. One great trick it has up it’s sleeve is that with Birdherd you can use any tool you like – Hootsuite, CoTweet, TweetDeck – to update the account, making it even easier for multiple users with different tastes in tools.

Try it out for yourself: birdherd.com

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Twitter Tool Tuesday – Twazzup

14/02/2012 By

Twazzup is a search engine for twitter that provides users with real-time tweets, news stories and links related to certain terms and #hashtags. Results can be filtered by most influential users, most active users and those who have posted most recently. The platform also displays links to other #hashtags and terms that commonly occur in a users search results.

It’s brilliant for breaking news and following popular topics.

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Twitter Tool Tuesday – OneKontest.com

14/02/2012 By

OneKontest allows you to create and manage Twitter based competitions designed to encourage social engagement.

You can create #hashtag contests, where users must tweet a specific #hashtag to enter; Tweet + Follow contest, where users must be following your account to enter and Twtpoll contest, where you can ask a question and the winners will be picked at random from the people who have answered correctly. Tweets can be made directly from a OneKontest promotion page or any other Twitter client.

Here’s an example of a recent #hashtag promotion by WWE.

Users of OneKontest have 3 payment options to choose from. There’s a pay-as-you-go option for $29 per promotion, a basic package for $49 per month and a premium package for $99 per month. The premium package lets you create an unlimited number of branded promotions for up to 5 Twitter accounts, whereas the basic package limits you to just one Twitter account.

All-in-all OneKontest is a great way to generate social media “buzz” and conversation surrounding a particular product or service. It’s also a fun way for businesses to reach out and engage their target audience.

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Twitter Tool Tuesday – Just Tweet It

07/02/2012 By

Just Tweet It is a user-powered twitter directory with almost 50,000 listings. Users are grouped into categories from animal rights activists to fashion editors and medical professionals to wedding photographers.

The aim of the directory is to enable users to find other tweeters who share the same interests.

As well as finding other tweeters with similar interests to yourself, you can list yourself on the directory so that you can be found.

Get yourself listed here: justtweetit.com

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Twitter Tool Tuesday – SelecTweet

07/02/2012 By

SelecTweet is a twitter management service aimed at expanding your twitter community by delivering visible and interesting tweets on subjects that matter to you.

SelecTweet allows you to schedule tweets, saving you time and making your social media more efficient. As well as simple tweet scheduling, SelecTweet lets you select blogs and RSS feeds which you trust and then pulls content from these to automatically tweet from you, helping to ensure your tweets are relevant and interesting – giving you the best possible chance of being retweeted by your followers.

The SelecTweet service is currently in beta phase and is free to use, once the beta phase is complete users will be able to sign up for a full account.

If you want to save time and automate your tweeting, SelecTweet may be the tool for you.

Try it for yourself: selectweet.com

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Twitter Tool Tuesday – Formulists

31/01/2012 By

Formulists is a Twitter tool that allows users to group their Twitter followers into auto-updating Twitter lists. You can create lists based on parameters such as people you recently followed, people who recently followed/unfollowed you, people who retweeted you and more. You can also create lists based on keywords that appear within user profiles. So, for example, if you wanted a list of Twitter users who mention “X-Factor” in their profile you could use Formulists to create one.

The Formulists tool is both powerful and easy to use. It’s great for businesses using Twitter to as they can use it to make sure they’re reaching out to people who may have a genuine interest in their products and services.

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Twitter Tool Tuesday – Twitgram

24/01/2012 By

Twitgram allows you to private message other Twitter users irrespective of who is following whom and there’s no 140 character limit, so you can type away until your heart’s content.

To send someone a private message you simply visit Twitgram.com, enter their Twitter username, compose your message and then write a tweet that will alert them to the private message.

The tweet part is integral since Twitgram works by storing your private message on its servers and tweeting a link to this message to the person you’re messaging. It’s the same principal as sending someone a link to a webpage, except in this case it’s a link to a private message you’ve written.

To ensure the privacy of messages, recipients are required to sign into Twitter via Twitgram.

Overall, the tool is a novel way to engage with other Twitter users and get them to follow you, although it doesn’t come with any guarantees as recipients do have the option of ignoring any tweets alerting them to private messages.

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Twitter Tool Tuesday – Follwerwonk

24/01/2012 By

Followerwonk is a tool that allows you to search for and compare Twitter users with whom you have things in common. The tool’s search facility pulls up users whose bio, location and name matches your search topic. It also provides their number of tweets, number of followers, number of people they follow and the amount of time they’ve had a Twitter account. The tools “compare users” feature allows you to compare up to three Twitter handles at a time.

Followerwonk is a great tool for connecting with relevant users and enhancing your social network exposure. The ability to quickly and easily target relevant users, particularly those who are of high authority can have a significant impact on how frequently you’re re-tweeted and therefore impact the overall reach/effectiveness of your tweets.

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Twitter Tool Tuesday – Favorious

17/01/2012 By

Favorious allows you to collate and organise your twitter favourites. When reading a tweet, simply hit the star button and you add the tweet as a favourite, this is then saved into your Favorious account.

With favorious you can also tag your favourites which helps you to keep them organised – group them by author, or subject for example. Favorious’ aim is to help you discover, organise and filter twitter content based on favourites.

Try it here: favorious.com

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Twitter Tool Tuesday – WhoReTweeted Me

17/01/2012 By

WhoReTweededMe.com lets you view stats on blogs, webpages, etc that you’ve tweeted about.

To use the tool you simply enter a relevant URL, click the “Analyse This URL” button and wait for it to do its thing. Once it’s finished, you’re presented with the number of times your URL has been retweeted, a number of average followers and a number for “Potential Reach”. There’s also a retweet timeline displaying the times of day your URL was retweeted and a list of the 20 most influential retweeters.

A great feature of this tool is the “Thank” button, which lets you thank each of your 20 most influential retweeters for retweeting you. This in itself is great promotional tool as a simple “thank you” could encourage them to retweet you in future.

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