Twitter Tools

The Twitter website has many different tools associated with it, which makes it interesting to use. It becomes easier to follow users and manage followers with the Twitter tools described below. The hashtags functionality enables users to track what are the hot topics, what are people talking about and much more. All these and information about how does Twitter work with these tools, is provided in the paragraphs below.

Tools for Twitter

The following Twitter tools are useful from the point of exploring different functionalities associated with this website. The tools given below should make the experience of using this website fulfilling and satisfying.

TweetDeck: This tool is an 'Adobe Air' application and provides many different features. Sorting the tweets is one of the important options provided by this tool. The categories in which tweets can be grouped are keywords, groups, topic, replies, etc. The features like overnight updates, tweet filters and multiple columns are also useful.

Twitter Karma: The 'Twitter Karma' tool allows users to check the list of people they are following and enables them to sort it into those who are following them back and those who are not.

Qwitter: When someone stops following you on twitter, the application, 'Qwitter' provides updates regarding the same. The user also gets to know which tweet stopped the person from following him.

Twitoria: This application does the work of scanning the twitter account and retrieving information about inactive users. The users who have remained inactive for different time periods from 1 week to a year, can be tracked down with this tool.

Tweepler: Decisions about following a person or simply ignoring him can be easily taken with this twitter application. There is an ignore pile, in which one can drop names of users he/she doesn't want to follow.

TweetSum: The TweetSum tool does the task of rating all your new followers. A mechanism called 'Douche Bag Index' is used by the tool in assigning the ratings. Unwanted users can be removed with the help of this tool. Those users whom one doesn't want to follow, can be categorized as tweeps.

TwitterHolic: Popular users on the site can be found out with this application. Other statistics about our own twitter account can be obtained through this application.

TweetBeep: Service provided by the TweetBeep application informs the users about their name being mentioned in a tweet. This application is useful from the point of catching those messages which have been missed. The service is also beneficial from the point of customer support and reputation management.

Twubble: The Twubble site scans user's friends list, to get an idea of the network. Suggestions regarding Twitter users that one can follow are provided by this tool.

GroupTweet: With the GroupTweet tool, one can send tweets to a group of people simultaneously. It is one of the twitter tools for business and for sending important messages to friends.

Twitzu: The tool helps small businesses to make their presence felt by getting higher ranks in search engine results. A higher rank helps these business sites to get more traffic.

FlashTweet: It is one of the tools which followers can use for simplifying tasks related to following multiple Twitter users. One can follow many users on the basis of search terms.

Twitter Tools Hashtags
Hashtags represented by the symbol, '#' can be prefixed to any topic for people to follow them. The 'follow' in this context doesn't mean following as in the 'Twitter jargon'. In Twitter, one can only follow other users. Following a hashtag is a bit different from this conventional meaning. The hashtags are used for tracking what others are reporting. Tracking people whom one doesn't follow is possible with hashtags. The simple procedure of tracking/following hashtags is presented below.

• One should go to 'Twitter Search' and search for the hashtag by prefixing it with the '#' symbol.
• By searching in this manner, one can find the relevant results.
• Refreshing the page from time to time provides updates of latest messages and posts.

The explanation of how to use Twitter with different tools, is presented in the article. It should be useful in managing the followers. There are many more functionalities/applications of Twitter described in the article above and which would prove to be useful.