10 Twitter Tools I Can’t Live Without

I’m hooked on Twitter. Everything that Tweetable in my life, gets tweeted. I have a number of Twitter accounts for a number of different web sites that I run, plus I also run Twitter campaigns for a number of clients. My days are so Twitter-filled, that I need a lot of help sorting, organizing and tweeting with speed. Here is a list of 10 Twitter tools I cannot live without:

1. Twitter Feed – This feeds your Twitter account from any RSS feed. You can set it up to automatically tweet your blog, tweet someone else’s blog, a news source, and even one of your Yahoo! Pipes.

2. Twitter Tools for WordPress – This WordPress plugin has many, many features but the one I like the best is the ability to tweet a new blog post as soon as it’s bee posted. It also allows you to add text to the beginning or the end of the tweet, which is useful if you want to add retweet identifiers to the beginning and hashtags to the end of your tweets. You can also add a recent tweets widget to your blog’s sidebar, and automatically post tweet digests every day or week, among many other features.

3. Tweetdeck – this is my favorite Twitter client, which is cross-platform as it uses the Adobe Air runtime environment. This client handles multiple Twitter accounts, and allows you to Tweet from one, all or some of your accounts at the same time. You can also set your Facebook, Myspace and LinkedIn statuses as well as retweet easily and follow your own specified search terms.

4. Yahoo! Pipes – Yahoo! Pipes is not a Twitter-specific tool, but I use it mainly for Twitter. With Yahoo! Pipes you can set up an auto-retweet bot easily that will scan the entire Twitterverse for your defined keywords, convert them into retweets and then feed it to your Twitter account utlizing Twitter Feed. This is extremely helpful because your Twitter account becomes a follow-worthy authority on the keywords you choose and so long as you use your Tiwtter account to engage with your followers as well, you should increase your followers fairly quickly. Find out how to do this by watching this video.

5. Tweetdeck for iPhone – I honestly don’t know how I ever got by witout my iPhone, and the Tweetdeck app is a huge part of that. With many of the same features as the Adobe Air version of this app. it is an indespensable tool in handling my many Twitter accounts from anywhere.

6. SocialOomph – Sign up for an account and add you Twitter ID to it to be able to do many things including automatically follow people who follow you, automatically unfollow people who unfollow you, and send out an autoreply when people follow you.

7. Refollow – This site helps me sift through my followers and the users I follow to find spammy accounts and unfollow them. You can also use this tool to find a lot of targeted new people to follow through keyword searches and listing the followers of an account you like.

8. Twitpic – I love this service because it allows you to email photos to your Twitpic account and they automatically get tweeted. It’s great when you’re on the go and taking pictures with your internet enabled phone.

9. Twitip – an awesome blog that posts Twitter tips daily.

10. Tweetmeme – This is a great place to find out if anyone tweeted about any page on the internet. You can also use a small snippet of code to add a retweet button to your website or blog that will show how many people have tweeted about it. You can find the code here: Retweet Button.

Use these 10 tools to optimize your Twitter performance and increase your productivity on Twitter. Let us know in the comments if there are any tools you would add to your top ten list. And don’t forget to get your free Twitter assessment on our front page: Click Here!

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