The Basics

Hootlet, a file sharing tool from the professional Twitter Client Hootsuite is a handy little tool that you add to your web browser to quickly share and send web content with your twitter users.

Just drag the owl to your toolbar or save it to your favorites for a quick and easy install.

What They Say

The Hootlet is your secret weapon for sharing internet content over Twitter. Want to share a link? No need to even click away from the page.

Pros

• quick and painless install
• easy to share information without opening your twitter client

Cons

• if you aren’t using hootsuite…no dice.

What Fred the Toolman Tweets?

Hootlet is my tool of choice for sharing content, the only one I use.

Visit Hootsuite to set up your account (don’t forget to add the hootlet widget) : http://hootsuite.com/

There are many Twitter clients available, some robust and some with a single or limited purpose.

Learning what to look for in a twitter client can help reduce the number of hours and tools required for your social media experience saving you valuable time, energy and money.

This is very subjective, everybody has different tastes, opinions and requirements.

1. Does it support your O/S?
2. Is it high capacity? If you can’t access it quickly, what is the point.
3. Desktop, web based or mobile
4. Is it clean and simple to setup and use? Are the streams easy to follow?
5. Can you manage multiple accounts? Is it easy to jump between them?
6. Can you manage and view your followers? Block, Report spam.
7. Is there a spell check feature?
8. Can you shorten your url’s?
9. Can you customize it to create groups, lists, favorites, search, keywords and other parameters?
10. Can you schedule & manage all your tweets? Sent, DM’s (in and out), @ replies, Scheduled, etc.
11. Are the conversations easy to respond and follow? Threaded?
12. Is there search, keyword, hashtag and other application integration like audio or picture sharing?

That’s a lowdown list of what to look for in a twitter client. If you ask these questions you will eliminate all the clients that don’t meet your needs and hone in on the one that is right for you.

Let me know what you look for and share with me anything I might have missed.

Hootsuite

The Basics

Hootsuite, manage multiple social media including Twitter, Facebook, Ping and LinkedIn via mobile, desktop or web interfaces.

Monitor brands, schedule communication, manage multiple users, track stats, create lists, shorten  url’s, personalize views create  feeds, embed  tweets, create groups & lists, search and review profiles and more…

What They Say

Save your time and save your sanity. Continue managing all of your Twitter profiles through one client.

Pros

• versatile functionality
• could become the only tool you need – best all in one option

Cons

• follow management integration

What Fred the Toolman Tweets?

Hootsuite is my choice of the many Twitter clients available. While I’ve tested other clients this is the one I use!

Visit Hootsuite to set up your account:  http://hootsuite.com/

The Basics

Group Tweet lets you post message to group using direct messages. You can set it to be private were only members of the group will see it or public where all followers of the group will see it.

What They Say

GroupTweet is a service that works behind the scenes with Twitter to allow users to form groups and communicate within those groups.

Pros

• good method to communicate with a select group
• private option
• expanded pay version for extra support

Cons

• lists could make this redundant

What Fred the Toolman Tweets?

Group Tweet is a safe way to tweet a select group. Will add to my list of followers.

Keep track of your followers

The Basics

Twitterless tells you who’s stopped following you and gives you various graphical timeline views. A nice way to find out why or when you are losing followers.

You can also filter your followers by keywords and browse through posts or find out where your followers come from. The newest feature is a groups feature to follow key users. Url shortening is automatic in firefox.

What They Say

These are just the tip of the iceburg. There are many more fantastic features in the works for Twitterless. ~Mark Nutter

Pros

• intuitive interface with a clean simple look
• automatic URL shortening
• good search, filter and grouping

Cons

• needs FAQs and tutorials

What Fred the Toolman Tweets?

Twitterless could become an excellent Twitter Client. Will star this one to keep an eye in the future.

Get email when your keywords are mentioned on Twitter

The Basics

Tweetscan searches Twitter and other microblogging sites and sends you an daily or weekly email alert on keyword. Useful to keep track of a trend or topic in real time without searching each time. Set and forget.

What They Say

In the innovative world of Microblogging, one site aims to organize it all.

Pros

• scan up to ten phrases and set and forget
• easy monitoring
• no spam and easy to reset or turn off

Cons

• lots of keyword tools available

What Fred the Toolman Tweets?

Tweetscan provides a good set and forget keyword search experience. Will schedule tweets to keep on top of my trends.

Tracking the links you share on Twitter

The Basics

Tweetburner is an URL shortener that lets you track the links you share on Twitter. You must set up an account to use it, though it does have a bookmarklet to drag to your address bar.

What They Say

Enter the URL you’d like to shorten, share and track

Pros

• bookmarklet and url shortening work great

Cons

• Why set up an account?
• So many simple URL shortners already including built in to clients

What Fred the Toolman Tweets?

Tweetburner is a functional solution for url shortening and tracking your link. Will add to list of followers to see what happens.

Birds in a Tree!!! Threaded Tweets.

The Basics

Tweetree puts your Twitter stream in a thread or Tweetree as they like to call it so you can view both sides of a conversation. You can log directly into the tool and tweet from it or you can view a user name to see both sides of a conversation. Makes it easy to follow conversations.

What They Say

Login to view your twitter stream in Tweetree, and post updates to your twitter feed right from your tree!

Pros

• easy readability
• fast recall of tweets
• good user interface

Cons

• time consuming for a single application use

What Fred the Toolman Tweets?

Tweetree is a solid application for following Twitter conversations. Will re-tweet this when I want to see both sides of the story.

visit Twiatter

Twitter client and scheduling platform

The Basics

TwAitter is a Twitter client that allows you to schedule tweets (recurring too), with twitter. Calendar and RSS features to manage your schedule or subscription. You can also schedule on mass twitters.

What They Say

With our enthusiasm (unhealthy addiction) for Twitter combined with our gallant attempt at adding enhancements to the Twitter platform, we know you’ll ‘love’ to Twitter on Twaitter.

Pros

• good for scheduling
• web based client

Cons

• doesn’t have many client features

What Fred the Toolman Tweets?

TwAitter t is a good resource. Will twAit for more features to retweet.

visit Tweetsourcer

Find the right crowd on Twitter, free and automated

The Basics

Tweetsourcer helps you find like minded people that you might want to follow. Simply enter your username and the keywords you want and then it will search for users to follow. You can use Tweetsourcer premium for just $50 to gain 5000 users in a month.

What They Say

Our service is not in any way affiliated to Twitter but is powered by this great website. It has a large community of users, and Twitter is famous for it’s business opportunities.  With Tweetsourcer you have the #1 marketing tool for Twitter, which automatically reaches the right crowd on Twitter for you.

Pros

• fast and direct
• quick way to find and follow users in a single process

Cons

• simply auto follows 10 users without you seeing the profile

What Fred the Toolman Tweets?

Tweetsourcer is a functional resource. May retweet this one, worth it for self-building a profile.

http://tweetsourcer.com/