How to Use 5 Twitter Tools to Turn You into a Power Tweeter

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5 Twitter Tools That Turn You Into a Power User

New to Twitter? These tools make it easy to get the most out of your Twitter experience. Twitter is a microblog that makes it easy to keep in touch. Twitter tools makes Twitter work even better for you.

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

access to Twitter via the web.
a Twitter account
Time to Twitter!

Step 1

Tweader:

The more followers you get and the more conversations you have, the harder it can be to figure out who is replying to which of your comments. That's where Tweader repeatedly comes in handy. Just type in the url number of your tweet and it will show you the whole thread of conversation connected to that Tweet.

Bonus: It took me a few minutes to figure out how to get the url number, so I'll make it easy for you. Click on the time stamp of the tweet, ex. "Less than 5 seconds ago." When you do, it will open up a cool picture of a Tweet. Pretty cool, huh. (You'd be surprised at how long it took me to figure out how they did that!) Then look at the web address line and you'll see the url number at the end.
Step 2

Tweetdeck:

I don't have that many people I'm following compared to some, but I am interested in the communities I do follow and what they are saying. There are also a few people I never want to miss what they have to say. Tweetdeck is the way I always catch what my Tweeps are saying. I set up several groups based on communities (ex. ADHD, environment, close friends) and watch for my replies there too.

Bonus: It even catches some of the @replies that Twitter doesn't see. Especially when your name is mentioned in a list of several @'s.
Step 3

Budurl and Tweetburner:

Ever wonder if anyone is really listening to you? Shorten your links with either of these tools and you can track how many people opened them. Cool, huh! Budurl is great because it will show you how many people are opening them in real time (10 second delay). Tweetburner is cool because you can see what the hottest links of the moment are on it as well.

Bonus: Using these tools, you'll get better at writing headlines that pull traffic to your links because you can see how well you're doing.
Step 4

TweetGrid and Search.Twitter:

Ever wonder what everyone is saying about a specific topic at the moment? These cool search sites will do the trick. Search.Twitter (formerly Summize) is the Twitter engine behind Election2008. TweetGrid allows you to track multiple topics in one window.

Bonus: You can use these tools to find people when Twiiter's people search is down or see who is responding to a particular topic or question posed by a rockstar Tweeter.
Step 5

TweetBeep:

This takes the information you can find in TweetGrid and Search.Twitter and wraps it all up in a nice little email that you can get hourly or daily. Very handy for keeping up with topics, products and companies you are following.

Bonus: You don’t have to rely on remembering to do your daily search. These programs do the thinking for you!

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paulcline82 said

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on 8/28/2009
Great Article!!!!! 5 Stars!!!!

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