14 Tools of Highly Effective Twitter Users

by Kenny on February 4, 2009

A collec­tion of the 14 best tools avai­la­ble to help you manage and maxi­mize twit­ter in alpha­be­ti­cal order!

Follow Cost

Enter a users twit­ter name:

Follow CostAnd it gives you a rating on how detri­men­tal it will be to follow that user:

Follow CostThe ratings are given in millis­co­bles, or 1/1000th of Robert Scoble’s twit­ter out­put. It also gives an index of what per­cen­tage of the user’s tweets are poli­ti­cal and what per­cen­tage are @replies. More of a fun tool really, but will still give you an accu­rate idea of how much the user will pollute your feed!

http://followcost.com/

#hash­tags

Hash­tags are a popu­lar way for twit­ter users to tweet and keep track of rele­vant que­ries in search.twitter.com, #hash­tags keeps up with popu­lar hash­tag tren­ding topics on twitter.

#hashtagshttp://hashtags.org/

TweetS­talk

Ever want to follow someone on twit­ter, but didn’t want them to know you were follo­wing them? Yeah, me niether, but in case you ever did, there’s tweetstalk:

TweetStalkJust down­load the fire­fox, ins­tall, and stalk away!

http://tweetstalk.com/

TweetS­tats

Sta­tis­tics for twit­ter! TweetS­tats allows you to see all sorts of sta­tis­tics from your twit­ter account like, month to month tweet fre­quency, daily ave­rage tweet den­sity, aggre­gate hourly tweets, etc.. And, all of this without ente­ring a pass­word to your account, so you can see stats on others as well!

TweetStatsTweetStatshttp://tweetstats.com/

Twee­take

Twee­take is a tool that I think is indis­pen­sa­ble for anyone that con­ducts any sort of busi­ness on twit­ter. It allows you to down­load and save a copy of your twit­ter account. Follo­wers, Tweets, DM’s, Favo­ri­tes, you can save them all as a csv down­load for safe­kee­ping. And if you’re as para­noid as I am about bac­kups, this will be one more thing to add to the list!

Tweetakehttp://tweetake.com/

Twee­tSuite

Twee­tSuite is a word­press plu­gin that is a con­ti­nua­tion of Tweet­Backs. The new and upgra­ded ver­sion inc­lu­des auto­ma­tic twee­ting of new posts, most twee­ted wid­get, recently twee­ted wid­get, tweet this but­ton, and seve­ral other twitter-tastic fea­tu­res to inter­grate into your word­press blog. It’s the ulti­mate twit­ter plu­gin for wordpress.

TweetSuitehttp://danzarrella.com/beyond-tweetbacks-introducing-tweetsuite.html

Twibs

Twit­ter busi­ness direc­tory. Find busi­nes­ses on twit­ter. Nuff said.

Twibshttp://www.twibs.com/

Twi­Tip: Host Your Own Short URL

Twi­Tip is a great blog for twit­ter users, run by Darren Rowse of Pro­Blog­ger. In this post Darren wri­tes about how you can host your own short url ins­tead of using a ser­vice like tin­yurl. I per­so­nally per­fer to use kl.am but this is not a post on url shor­te­ning services!

Host Your Own Short URLhttp://www.twitip.com/how-to-host-your-own-short-urls/

Twit­Pic

Twit­Pic is pro­bably a ser­vice that you already use, or are at least fami­liar with. It’s most com­mon use is with cell pho­nes pos­ting pic­tu­res to twit­ter for you. I like it because it also tracks views on each photo, and you can login to Twit­Pic with your twit­ter username/pass and see all of the pho­tos you’ve ever posted.

TwitPichttp://twitpic.com/

Twit­ter­Bar

Post to your twit­ter from your fire­fox address bar! If fire­fox was my main brow­ser, I’d totally use it.

TwitterBarhttps://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4664

Twit­ter­cal

Now this is a great idea, espe­cially for twit­ter addicts that don’t already have an iphone or a crack­berry. Twit­ter­cal lets you post events to your goo­gle calen­dar by sen­ding direct messages.

Twittercalhttp://twittercal.com/

Twit­ter­Friends

Yay for friends on twit­ter! It’s all about the con­ver­sa­tion right? Twit­ter­Friends is a neat tool that allows you to look at the con­ver­sa­tions you’re having with all sorts of sta­tis­tics inc­lu­ding: @replies recieved/day, links posted/day, ret­weet quo­tient, tweets/day, as well as the nor­mal to and from tweet ratios bet­ween you and other twit­ter users.

TwitterFriendsTwitterFriendshttp://twitter-friends.com/

Twit­ter Grader

Twit­ter Gra­der is a twit­ter ran­king tool that gra­des your pro­file based on a num­ber of fac­tors and gives you a grade on a scale of 1–100, as well as a glo­bal rank in pro­por­tion to the rest of users. It is a fun tool that allows you to see just how “elite” your twit­ter pro­file is. I have done exten­sive blog­ging on this tool here: (1,2,3,4)

Twitter Graderhttp://twitter.grader.com/

Twuf­fer

Now, I have to say, this is just an awe­some name. Out of all the twit­ter mashup names, this is my favo­rite. Twuf­fer (hehe) is a twitter-buffer, that allows you to sche­dule and post-date tweets. Oh the possibilities!

Twufferhttp://twuffer.com/

I hope you enjo­yed the post and found some new tools you can use! Also be sure to check out twitip.com and don’t for­get to follow me on twit­ter! @kennyhyder ;)

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{ 51 comments }

Austin February 4, 2009 at 3:20 pm

GREAT LIST! I mean, there are some great lists of ser­vi­ces out there, but this one tops them out!

Advent Creative February 4, 2009 at 4:03 pm

Great list one of my favo­ri­tes that is not on here is http://Socialtoo.com. It has a great set of tools for twit­ter and face­book. Thanks for the post found a cou­ple new sites i want to check out.

Barry Hess February 5, 2009 at 10:29 am

Thanks for men­tio­ning Follow Cost. We find it use­ful and are happy that others do as well. We have some other ideas in store as well, so look for ‘em!

~Barry

Peter February 11, 2009 at 4:43 pm

My favou­rite site is http://www.twitterfall.com — awe­some graphi­cal inter­face sho­wing tweets from the most popu­lar trends fall from the top of the page in near-realtime.

Also doesn’t hit Twit­ter as hard as hun­dreds of peo­ple using search.twitter.com during big events.

Jalada February 11, 2009 at 4:48 pm

I recom­mend chec­king out http://twitterfall.com too — it’s a great com­ple­ment to a site like Hashtags.org, and great for follo­wing con­fe­ren­ces, events, or world news, in real­time. Twit­ter­fall uses some cle­ver Push tech­no­logy for popu­lar trends to ease load on Twit­ter, and means that you get new tweets via the Twit­ter search API VERY close to real­time (pro­vi­ded Twit­ter Search is kee­ping up!)

Tom Gray February 11, 2009 at 5:44 pm

Great list. Here’s a cou­ple you might like cli.gs marries short urls to analy­tics so that I can see how many peo­ple have clic­ked on URLs I’ve inc­lu­ded in my tweets. Very cool. And I also like http://twitter.polldaddy.com/ which is a very nice polling tool that can be used with twitter.

follow me at http://www.twitter.com/tomjgray

Alex Schleber February 11, 2009 at 11:52 pm

Pretty good list.

I’d men­tion that there is a bet­ter, though slightly more labor inten­sive (ini­tially) solu­tion for crea­ting a “Roll Your Own” Tin­yUrl ser­vice, using a sepa­rate twea­ked Word­press install:

http://3on.us/roll-tinyurl

(the link itself is an exam­ple of what the redi­rect engine/url shor­ter­ner will look like, obviously with your own short domain)

Bene­fits: You own the stats/data (not budurl, etc.), you have com­plete con­trol over the appea­rance of the URLs, mea­ning­ful URLs have higher click-through, using your own short domain looks cus­tom and gets atten­tion (you can redi­rect / straight to your blog, etc.), URLs can be shor­te­ned further on the fly (due to Word­press’ post slug tole­rance), e.g. the above URL will still work as “…/roll-t” in case you had to save even more space to fit into 140 cha­rac­ters, etc.

Dave Kinsella February 12, 2009 at 4:05 am

I’m quite keen on Hoo­tsuite (http://hootsuite.com), I’m using it for allo­wing mul­ti­ple authors on a Twit­ter account for a multi-author blog.

Mark Ramskill February 12, 2009 at 5:48 am

Great article which has bought some new ser­vi­ces to my atten­tion that I hadn’t pre­viously used.

I see Pro­blog­ger has Twee­ted this, so hope­fully it’ll get the traf­fic it deserves.

Mark Rams­kill
@ramskill @talkcontent

sylvia February 12, 2009 at 5:54 am

Great info. Still so much to learn about twit­ter and what you can do with it.….

sylvia February 12, 2009 at 5:56 am

by the way really like the design of your blog!

palmamod February 12, 2009 at 6:02 am

Nice list. Par­ti­cu­larly use­ful hash­tags and TweetS­tats IMO

Scott Townsend February 12, 2009 at 6:07 am

Great collec­tion of Twit­ter ser­vi­ces. Now to go and try them out.

Stefan February 12, 2009 at 6:38 am

Big thanks! Twuf­fer is just cool stuff; I’m tes­ting it, uti­li­zing zi.ma as a URL shor­te­ner… :)

Jag SEO Follow February 12, 2009 at 7:31 am

All 14 tools are good thanks for sharing

Modern Painter February 12, 2009 at 8:34 am

Great! Thank you.

BrandAmp February 12, 2009 at 8:51 am

#15 — Twitterhawk

@jscotto February 12, 2009 at 8:58 am

Wow– thank you. i think in coming years there will be Twit­ter 101 clas­ses at uni­ver­si­ties with you as the resi­dent pro­fes­sor! Nicely done! Great edu­ca­tion for me!

Miles Tinsley February 12, 2009 at 9:00 am

Twuf­fer is clearly the most use­ful here! While the others are great for stats and aggre­ga­tion, this seems to be pri­ma­rily focu­sed on the act of Tweeting…

tara February 12, 2009 at 9:04 am

i have been wishing for a hash­tag direc­tory! thanks for this list!

George Nimeh February 12, 2009 at 9:25 am

Thanks. Very nice.
@iboy

Courtenay February 12, 2009 at 10:08 am

You left out TweetLater.com, which is another great site for sche­du­led tweets.

John Samuel February 12, 2009 at 10:11 am

I am using Twit­ter Gra­der and Tweet Stats from this list apart from many other Twit­ter based ser­vi­ces. Good collection

Anuj Seth - Twitdom February 12, 2009 at 11:09 am

Q: How about a tool to find more Twit­ter Tools?

A: Twitdom.com :-)

Disc Jockey February 12, 2009 at 3:51 pm

Good to have the whole collec­tion at one place.
Thanks!

Sedie February 12, 2009 at 4:28 pm

It’s always great to get infor­ma­tion like this in one place. Not only will I pro­bably use some of these, but I’ll tweet this link so others can get a look. Thanks!

Rachel Z Cornell February 12, 2009 at 7:28 pm

Go Kenny,
What a great list and so nicely explai­ned and illus­tra­ted! Many of these tools I have not known about.
Thank you,
Rachel

Sagar Shah February 13, 2009 at 4:27 am

Hi Kenny,

Argu­baly the Best list of Twit­ter Tools.. Thanks.

Cheers!!

Gregory Culpin February 13, 2009 at 4:31 am

Nice post! You might want to check out http://www.microplaza.com – a per­so­nal micro-news agency on powe­red by your Twit­ter net­work (currently under pri­vate invi­tes only)

cheers

Nick February 13, 2009 at 4:51 am

Wow, this is a great list. Thanks, I am going to use some of these, I had no idea you could do so much.

@verywendy February 13, 2009 at 4:57 am

Very nice list and how about sen­ding your love on Twalentine’s Day : twit­ter name <3 will send them a heart

Alex Peerenboom February 13, 2009 at 10:24 am

Great post, I would add Tweet­Deck to the list two. It’s a great way to group the peo­ple you follow and orga­nize all those tweets better.

John Kremer February 14, 2009 at 6:14 am

I’ve recently crea­ted a web­page fea­tu­ring about 100 Twit­ter tools, but I found some others I wasn’t aware of here on this page. Thanks. To see my list, go to http://www.bookmarket.com/twitter.htm.

Edwin Khodabakchian February 16, 2009 at 12:38 am

I would like to add feedly mini as a poten­tial can­di­date on this list. It makes sha­ring web pages and re-tweeting very easy.

Steve February 16, 2009 at 12:59 am

an exce­llent list — con­si­der this page book­mar­ked!
v. cool stuff

E-TARD February 22, 2009 at 5:34 pm

thanks for the links
i’m trying to go around fin­ding twit­ter sites that are use­full
so i can blog about it the good ones i find

http://twitter.com/etard_webcam

Jason February 23, 2009 at 6:28 pm

Loo­king for how to turrn off an Auto­res­ponse to being follo­wed — pro­blem: Can’t remem­ber which tool / method I used to set it up!

Can anyone offer ideas? (From most standard/likely to Twit­ter 3rd party Aps such as Tweet­Deck, Ping.fm.… I’ve searched all I remem­ber using!!)

Jason February 23, 2009 at 6:29 pm

Can con­tact of follow me: @good_people

Tim Staines February 24, 2009 at 5:57 am

Twe­llow is a great tool for fin­ding peo­ple to follow. I find it par­ti­cu­larly use­ful for buil­ding a cor­po­rate account. Nice post though Kenny, there are seve­ral there that I hadn’t chec­ked out yet.

Barbara Ling, Virtual Coach February 24, 2009 at 6:05 am

Nice list! But you left out the ulti­mate para­llel uni­verse Twit­ter Pro­blem Sol­ver! http://www.twitterbudgie.com :)

Enjoy, Bar­bara

Robyn February 24, 2009 at 4:02 pm

Very impres­sive list of Twit­ter Tools. What do you think is next?

carolannb February 25, 2009 at 8:39 pm

Cool list of sites — some I knew…some I didn’t know too well…thx 4 sha­ring. :)

Brenda Heisler February 28, 2009 at 9:39 am

Hi Kenny,

More here than I expec­ted. I’d seen a list before, but this is nice with the screen shots. It takes a lot of time to cons­truct a post like this, so I’m than­king you. Much appre­cia­ted. Do you have some that you just can’t live without?

oriesecisekly March 7, 2009 at 1:25 pm

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Hunter Satterwhite March 11, 2009 at 12:55 pm

продам Форд-Фокус 2008 года за 200 тр. торг возможет. срочно!!!

^^ My thoughts exactly! ;)

P.s. A bear is not a fish.

Chase March 27, 2009 at 3:52 pm

one i’ve been loving: tweetburner.com… analy­tics on my Tin­yURLs… but let’s keep this one a bit sec­re­ter, k? It gives me stats on how many clicks.

Susan Walls March 27, 2009 at 8:29 pm

Great post! I am new to twit­ter and can defi­ni­tely make use of seve­ral of the tools you have lis­ted. Thanks!

Donnette March 27, 2009 at 11:58 pm

What a great list, thank you for sha­ring… Loved “Twuf­fer” hehe :)

Photo Soren May 27, 2009 at 11:34 pm

Thank you Kenny, fot this most use­ful over­view of tools for Twit­ter users. As a new user to Twit­ter (but not new to online mar­ke­ting) I appre­ciate all kinds of spe­ci­fic help and this list is making my life much easier. For exam­ple is Twee­tSuite one of the tools I have to apply to some of my Word­Press blogs rela­ted to pho­to­graphy and travel.

Thanks again

@sorenbreiting
Denmark

Justin May 30, 2009 at 1:04 pm

Whoa… this site is pretty awe­some :) your layout is really well desig­ned, and your blogs are (jud­ging from what i’ve read) very inte­res­ting. heehee… con­si­der your­self favo­ri­ted. :-P

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