Twitter- as we all know is a micro blogging platform to publish short updates (up to 140 characters). It is like an internet messenger. We all enjoy twitting around the WEB, creating social network, sharing updates & knowing what people are doing around us. Here I am talking about some great tools to make twitting easy & effective.
TwitterFox: This is really a must have tool for twitter enthusiasts. This is a Firefox extension that notifies you of your friends' tweets on. Whenever your friends update their tweets, you will get the pop up notification right from your browser, isn’t it great
There is a reply button and favorite button on right-top corner of the popup. You can reply to any specific twit or can post your new updates right from your pop window. There's no need to visit the Twitter site to do this anymore—it's built right into twitterfox. It will definitely help you increasing your networking & involvement with other twitter users’.
Twitbin: This is again a tool to send and receive messages to all your fellow twitterholics, right from your firefox browser.
TwitterBar: TwitterBar allows you to post to Twitter directly from Firefox's address bar. A small unobtrusive grey icon sits to the right of your address bar; clicking on it will post your tweet, and you can hover your mouse over it to see how many characters you have left.
You can also post by typing "--post" at the end of your tweet. Clicking the grey icon when visiting a webpage will send a tweet with the URL of the webpage you are currently viewing.
Twitzer - Twitter long text: If you want to post more than the 140 character limit at Twitter, install this extension. Now type away as much as you want and before posting just click on "Twitzer text". The extension will automatically save the full text at shortText.com, create a URL and replace the typed text with the summary and URL.
People who follow you can get the full text of the created links on Twitter site itself by clicking on 'De-Twitzer text'.
Twitzer - Twitter more! Also gives you the functionality to post your update of more than 140 characters.
Power Twitter by 30 Boxes: This is again a plugin for Firefox web browser that greatly enhances twitter by offering photo sharing with embedded flickr photos, video sharing with embedded
youtube videos, shared tinyurls are unwound so you know where they link to etc.
TwitterCounter: Integrate TwitterCounter.com badges on your blog to display the number of followers you have on Twitter
Tweet This: Adds a Post to Twitter bird icon to the top-right of every post and page, with a nice rollover effect. Shortens URLs in advance through Th8.us, eating up only 16 of 140 characters. Includes the post's title after the link (can be turned off). If your titles are really long, they get cut off near 130 characters with "...". Customize or disable auto-insertion under Settings > Tweet This.
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.
Twitter Tools: Twitter Tools is a plugin that creates a complete integration between your WordPress blog and your Twitter account.
Twitter for Wordpress: Twitter for WordPress displays yours latest tweets in your WordPress blog.
Twitterfeed: Posts your blog updates to your twitter account. Login to twitterfeed using your OpenID, provide the URL for your blog RSS feed, and how often to post to Twitter.
TwittTwoo: Twitt-Twoo is a simple little plugin that will allow you to update your Twitter status right from your blog’s sidebar. AJAX takes cares of the hard work, and means that your page doens’t even have to reload, allowing for quick and easy status updates.
TwitKit: TwitKit is a Twitter sidebar for Firefox. TwitKit has a 6-section interface, using tabs to separate content. You can view the Twitter public timeline, your user timeline, a list of your friends and their latest tweets, a list of your followers and their latest tweets, @replies made to you, and stats about your account
Quotably: An interesting service that enables people to follows threads woven throughout twitter conversations.
StrawPollNow: Run your own poll on twitter with the new StrawPoll Platform, where you can use your own Twitter account to ask the questions you find interesting.
TwitterKeys: TwitterKeys is a javascript bookmarklet developed to provide you with a floating window with all the funny symbols you can use in Twitter. Emoticons, warning symbols, religious symbols, and more are a part of the palette of characters available to you via TwitterKeys. So you can actually write something like this: “I’m going to ? to ? in the morning after I make a ? to make sure my ? is ? with it. ? for now and don’t forget to ? and lets have ? soon!”
EasyTweets: EasyTweets is a set of tools that can help online marketers leverage the power of microblogging. You can use it to post to and switch between multiple Twitter accounts in seconds, check replies, and track new followers.
LessFriends: This tool will help you find out whether the people you follow on Twitter, follow you?
Twitterrific: Twitterrific is a fun application that lets you both read and publish posts or “tweets” to the Twitter community website. The application’s user interface is clean, concise and designed to take up a minimum of real estate on your Mac’s desktop.
Just Tweet It: was created to make it easier for people using the popular micro-blogging service Twitter to find other “Tweeters” with similar interests.
iTweet.net it will not only gives you direct access to view your friends tweets, reply only tweets, direct tweets, but also you can set favorites and only see their tweets. You can also see your outgoing direct tweets via the archive link as well as all public tweets.
Twitter search: A search engine that scans Twitter.
Twitter Search helps you filter all the real-time information coursing through our service.You can also find some advanced search option in this tool.
Mr. Tweet looks through your extended network to help you build effective relationships on Twitter. It reviews your network and suggests people you might value following.
TweetDeck: As your Twitter network grows, the steady influx of tweets flowing into your account can become unmanageable to follow. TweetDeck is a free Twitter desktop client that helps manage your Twitterverse. The site runs on Adobe Air and splays out all your incoming tweets, replies and direct messages for easy navigation.
TweetBeep: Like Google Alerts, but for Twitter, TweetBeep is a free Web-based service that will send you an e-mail notification anytime a certain keyword, name or phrase appears on Twitter. This tool could come in handy for companies or self-Googlers eager to stay abreast of their online reputation in the Twitterverse.
Twollo: This is an excellent application that allows you to follow the people with similar interests automatically.
Twitterholic: Twittastic robots scan the Twitter public timeline for new twits to tweet. A few times a day, it calculates individual statistics for each twittering twit in their database.
