3 Important Twitter Tools
Have you ever noticed that when you google twitter tools, lists and lists of websites come up promoting various applications to integrate into your twitter account. I’ve signup on a lot of these sites and as I was thinking about a blog topic my favorites applications for twitter use came to mind. As I was going through my saved bookmarked sites I found myself deleting a lot of them for lack of use. I started narrowing down my list to my favorites and couldn’t live without twitter helpers. So here they are:
#1 - Hootsuite
I LOVE this program. Here are my top 3 reasons why.
- Manage multiple twitter accounts
- Shrink feature for your URL
- Schedule your tweets!
Did you hear that you can schedule your tweets!! That means when you go on vacation you can automate your account, so you can actually go on vacation and BE on vacation!
If you’re not on it, it’s a great program. The only thing lacking is the integration to other social networking applications like facebook pages, LinkedIn, delicious, etc…
These are the Twitter rules below:
Twitter Limits
- 1,000 total updates per day, on any and all devices (web, mobile web, phone, API, etc.)
- 250 total direct messages per day, on any and all devices
- 150 API requests per hour
So the workaround is to use Twitter Karma. There’s a ratio between followers and following, so if you are building your followers, you should periodically unfollow people who are not active on twitter. So every couple of days I will look at my following only. Now there are people that I really like their tweets who are not following me back I will keep them on.
So you login to Twitter Karma then go to Show: Only Following. I go through the list and check all the accounts I want to stop following and at the bottom I hit the button bulk unfollow. It’s as easy as that. Then I can start following again to the limit point.
This is actually your opportunity to engage with those you are following that you really enjoy. You can start by retreeting them, follow friday, or commenting on their posts.
#3 Social Oomph
Here’s my 3 favorites:
- Auto replies when someone follows you.
- Auto-follow or un-follow people who follow you or don’t follow you back. (I wouldn’t recommend auto-unfollowing)
- Keyword or Key phrases Alerts
The only thing I don’t like about this program is the website design, it’s inundated with verbiage, so it can be a little confusing to navigate to where you need to be. For the most part I set this application on autopilot.
So if you haven’t checked out these programs you should!! And let me know what you think or if you’ve found something better!!
