Leveraging Twitter Tools for Maximum Use

Presented By: Urvi Mehta

@UrviMehta

http://www.UrviMehta.com

Twitbits About Me

• Started in Social Media with Facebook

• Became Active in Twitter July 2008

• Constantly Learning About New Tools

• Started Social Media Michigan and Social

Media International in Nov 2008

What You Will Learn

• Contact Management

• Search and Directories

• Time Savers, To-Do’s and Productivity

• Creative Uses, Interactivity

• Account Management

• Stats, Metrics, and Tracking

• Mobile Applications

Contact

Management

TweetBeep

• Keep track of conversations that mention you, your products, your company, anything, with

hourly updates! You can even keep track of who's tweeting your website or blog, even if they use a shortened URL (like tinyurl.com).

• Great for online reputation management, catching all your @replies, finding job/networking opportunities, keeping up on your favorite hobby, and more!

www.TweetBeep.com

Does Follow?

• Find out if person you are following is

following you back.

www.DoesFollow.com

Friend or Follow

• Who are you following that's not following

you back? Who's following you that you're

not following back? Find out!

• Different from Does Follow because it

searches all at once

Friend or Follow

www.friendorfollow.com

http://www.crazybob.org/twubble/

Twubble

Tweet2Tweet

• Tweet 2 Tweet tracks the public Twitter timeline to collect data in order to view conversations between two users

www.Tweet2Tweet.com

Blog

Tools

Twitter for Bloggers

• Blogger

– Twitter Updates Plugin

• Plugins will “pull in” your tweets to your blog.

• Wordpress

– Twitter Tools Plugin

• Pull in Your tweets to Wordpress blog

• Update Twitter when you make a new blog post

– Twitter for Wordpress

Search

and

Directories

Twitter Search

• Formerly known as Summize

• Best tool for finding Twitter Conversations

and conducting niche/keyword search

www.search.twitter.com

TwitScoop

• Real-time current events for Twitter.

• Use it to research the latest trends and to find out what’s the hottest buzz.

• Displays in tag cloud feature that is useful

www.Twitscoop.com

Twellow

• Great Twitter Directory

• Connect with other in your niche, industry, geography

• Links to profiles on Facebook and Linked

www.Twellow.com

Twitterholic

• Showcases the top 100 Twitter users.

• Follow “Twitter Rockstars” and find out what they’re doing to gain followers and increase visibility.

www.Twitterholic.com

Time Savers,

To Do’s

&

Productivity

TweetLater

• Automation

– Send ‘thank you’ and welcome messages to new

followers

– Return-follow your new followers

– Schedule tweets to be delivered at a specific time in

the future

www.tweetlater.com

Remember the Milk

• Task Management Service

• Create tasks from Twitter

– Follow RTM and send DM to it

• Notification and task reminders can also be setup to be delivered

www.rememberthemilk.com

TwitterCal

• It's a free service that connects your Twitter account to your Google Calendar.

• Add events in a snap from your favorite Twitter client.

www.Twittercal.com

TwitTangle

• Free service that helps you untangle the

mess of having too many friends on

twitter.

– Allows you to rate and tag your friends and then filter your timeline to help you easily find the tweets that are most important to you!

– Create custom groups of your followers and filter you timeline by that group.

http://twittangle.com/

Desktop

Clients

Tweetdeck

• Split main feed (All Tweets) into topic or group specific columns allowing a broader overview of tweets.

• Defaults to All Tweets, @replies and direct messages.

www.TweetDeck.com

Twhirl

• Desktop client

• Built-in URL shortner

• Ability to connect to other services such as

FriendFeed

www.twhirl.org

Status

Updates

Status Updates

• Ping.fm

– Updates Twitter and other Social Networking Sites all at the same time

www.ping.fm

Status Updates

• Hellotxt

– Another tool for Status Updates for Social Networking

Sites

www.hellotxt.com

Creative Uses,

Interactivity

TwitPic

• Easily post your photos and share them on

Twitter

www.Twitpic.com

TwitSay

• Record 10 second voice message and

share it with your Twitter peeps.

– Quick and Easy way to engage your followers

– Useful if you can’t text or don’t have access to your computer

www.TwitSay.com

Twitter Keys

• Icons and shapes in Tweets

• Bookmarklet that you can drag to your bookmarks toolbar

http://thenextweb.com/2008/09/16/twitterkeys-enhance-your-twitter-conversations/

TwittyTunes

• FoxyTunes companion

– Firefox extension which allows you to post your

currently playing songs to Twitter with a click. As a

bonus, you can also post the websites you're visiting,

videos you're watching and more!

http://www.foxytunes.com/twittytunes/

TwitHire

• Free Job listing board.

– Employers can promote their employment opportunities

to social, savvy job seekers

www.TwitHire.com

Straw Poll

• Need to get feedback?

• Create a poll and solicit responses just by

tweeting

www.strawpollnow.com

URL Shortners

• Tiny URL

– http://tinyurl.com/

• Is.gd

– http://is.gd/

• Snip URL (View Unique Clicks)

– http://snipurl.com/

• Tweetburner (Track # of clicks)

– http://tweetburner.com/

Account

Maintenance

TweeTake

• Backup your followers, favorites or the entire account

http://tweetake.com/

Twitterless

• Twitterless tells you who stops following

you and graphs your follower history over

time, making this info available in a variety

of useful views.

http://twitterless.com/

Qwitter

• Qwitter e-mails you when someone stops following you on Twitter with a message

http://useqwitter.com/

Stats,

Metrics

and

Tracking

Twitter Grader

• Twitter Grader measures the power of a profile.

• Gives suggestions on people you should follow based on your profile

www.twitter.grader.com

Twitter Counter

• Stats the span of the week for username

• Chart your progress in getting followers

www.twittercounter.com

TweetStats

• Offers detailed stats of

– your tweets,

– who you sent them to the most

– When you usually send them

www.tweetstats.com

#Hashtags

• Hashtags was designed to accommodate

the real-time news community.

– Provide analytic reports and indexing features to allow users to track what's happening now.

• You create a hashtag simply by prefixing a

word with a hash symbol: #hashtag.

Mobile Apps

• iPhone or Ipod Touch

– Tweetie

– TwitterFon

• Blackberry

– Twitterberry

Things to Keep In Mind

• Don’t get overwhelmed

• Don’t start using all of them at once

• If you’re a geek, create an application for

you niche or industry

• If you have questions, just ask!

Let’s Connect

• Twitter: @urvimehta

• Facebook: profile.to/urvimehta

• Linkedin: linkedin.com/in/urvimehta

• Blog: www.urvimehta.com

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