Twitter is a fantastic social media channel for building traffic. But rarely do you actually have to log in to Twitter. Instead you can use these tools to help you manage your Twitter presence. Here are our top 20 tools. Some of them we use on a regular basis and couldn’t live without, others as needed from time to time.
20 Top Twitter tools
- ManageFlitter: A great tool to easily manage your followers and who you are following. You can also link your Google+ account to your Twitter account. Use it to find out which inactive accounts you follow, and to search inside your Twitter stream.
- Social Oomph Send recurring scheduled tweets. A great time saver and you can use it on multiple accounts. It has various other features like purging your inbox, auto-following but I tend to use Social Oomphjust for the scheduling of recurring tweets.
- Commun.it: A great tool for keeping up to date with Twitter. It displays the people you are influenced by as well as those you are influencing the most. You can also track information on and update who is mentioning you and your brand.
- Argyle Social: Use this to track your metrics on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn, enabling you to measure the value of each social network. Learn how many clicks you get on your links and which of the social networks visitors to your website have come from.
- TweetDeck: Makes engaging with your followers quick and easy. You can monitor various search terms, hashtags and accounts. You can create Twitter groups and follow only those who Twitter about certain topics. You can set up filters for your Tweets. Similar to Hootsuite.
- Refollow: Excellent for monitoring your Twitter network. You can check out someone’s bio/stats, helping you to decide whether to follow or unfollow them. You can also easily sort your followers by various criteria.
- TweetLevel: Enables you to connect with the right people on Twitter. Excellent for checking both Twitter topics and users and finding new people. Easily search and analyse hashtags. Order your Tweets in a variety of ways.
- Tweepi: A superb Twitter follower management tool. Offers insightful analytical information about Twitter users. Sort people you are following into groups. Easily locate people following you who you are not following.
- The archivist: One of the best tools for monitoring keywords and hashtags. You can use it to look up any search term, view its Twitter history, top users of the term, how much it’s been tweeted, and associated hashtags. You can even establish a file and keep track on associated activity if you are launching a campaign with a specific hash tag.
- TwitterCounter: Gives comprehensive stats on all important Twitter activities, including number of followers, numbers following, and number of tweets. It also provides a graph displaying the twitter outputs versus follower numbers, clearly showing how well content is being received.
- TwitCam: Upload photos from your computer or live photos from your web cam then submit them directly to your twitter profile. You can also include animations with your photos.
- Formulists – Enables you to build your lists more efficiently. It helps you to find, engage and analyse people on Twitter so you can build your community in a more effective way.
- Twylah: Creates a website page out of your tweets, great for sharing your content and by using Twylah your tweets get greater exposure for longer.
- WhoTweetedMe: Great tool that analyzes a URL and shows you its most influential retweeters, potential reach and timeline.
- MarketMeSuite: This is a great social media dashboard. With it you can create reply campaigns, pull in RSS feeds, compare the Klout score of users you are interacting with, and collaborate with others. It is also similar to Hootsuite/TweetDeck. They had some other cool features where you could brand your tweets but had problems with Twitter’s API so removed this feature (which was a favourite feature!)
- Tweriod: This is good tool to find out the best time to send your tweets. Tweriod gives you an excellent analysis of when you will be best able to reach the most followers and get maximum exposure.
- Twilert: Useful if you are continually trying to monitor a brand or a search term on Twitter. It can be set up for any term and you will then be notified about any Twitter activity on it. Similar to Google Alerts but for Twitter.
- ParrotFish: Great tool that you download on Google Chrome in order to see the full preview of each tweet. Perfect for tweets that have links to photo’s and videos.
- BrandChirp: Useful brand management tool for Twitter. Also has a follow target follow feature.
- TwitLonger: For when 140 characters aren’t long enough!
