Here is an Infographic of Top 15 Twitter Applications. First Place goes to Tweet Deck, although I would rate HootSuite as a close second!
Which is your favorite app for tweeting?
OK, now you can “Pump Up” your twitter!
Our dynamic trio – Jack, Biz and Evan – have released their biggest feature update:
Twitter Lists!
Twitter lists are a way for you to group people you follow into categories. Provided here for your twitter convenience is a short guide on how to create and use them:
1. Click “create new list” in the new section on the right in the sidebar.
2. Name it and choose whether to make it private or public.
3. Add people you are following to your new list by visiting your following page and use the drop down menu beside each username or go to their profile page and use the drop down menu to add them to your list.
Sharing your list: Once you’ve created a list and assuming it’s a public list, you can share the URL with anyone. Also, you can follow other’s lists!
Twitter created a list of all their staff here.
And I created a list of the Tweet Valley Team here.
Tip: When you click on a team URL, you will see the teams member’s tweets. If you would like to see who is on the team, just add “/members” to the team URL or click “following” and you will see a page with the team members listed (see example below.)
Issues with this new list feature:
#1 You can’t add yourself to a list you have created.
#2 You can only add people you follow
#3 It’s hard to add people to your list
#4 No way for people to know you are following them
#6 No way to “follow-the-list-except-that-guy-who-tweets-too-much”
#7 You can’t import/export lists
#8 No stats or analytics
#9 No dynamic lists
If you would like to avoid these issues just ignore twitter’s lists and use TweepML to establish and share groups of twitter users.
I am on the Tweet Valley team, but since I created this list I’m not included on the list: add “/members” to the team URL or click “following” and you will see a page with the team members listed
Posted by Kevin McIntyre | Posted in Social Media, Tweets, Twitter | Posted on 21-09-2009
With the rise of Twitter, growing faster than a weed in the garden patch it is such an exciting time to be so involved and a part of the social media landscape. I love numbers and statistics. I guess that is why I am drawn to stuff like this video. I like how the information is presented. So it’s as much as style as the numbers themselves.
Did you know? 4.0 Enjoy
The lates version of their video series. Content by XPLANE, The Economist, Karl Fisch, Scott McLeod and Laura Bestler. Design and development by XPLANE.
These numbers should leave no doubt about the meteoric rise of Twitter and other social media outlets. The thing that sets Twitter apart is that the conversation is in real time. Look at those Twitter numbers especially the number of Tweets per day.
Twitter: 23 million unique visitors/day; 3 million tweets/day
YouTube: 85 million video views/day
Facebook: 300 million active users, 122 million visits/day
LinkedIn: 43 million members; 13 million daily avg visits
Blogs: 133 million currently indexed by Technorati.
Source: Circle Research
I guess real “expert” or “power” Twitter-ers enjoy and use some sort of desktop client like Tweetdeck, Nambu, or Seesmic to manage their Twitter account. But for me, I seem to have reverted back to the standard Twitter browser interface … with one caveat, I use Firefox … primarily for one very convenient script (or add-on by Al’s Scripts) that turns your following-follower page listings from this:
into this:
If your tweets contain such sayings as “Get more followers, instantly!” or “Find targeted followers in seconds” or “affiliate schemes” then this feature may not be critical 
… BUT if you are using Twitter for quality and not quantity then having follower-following bio’s listed in this manner is a tremendous help in separating the good from the bad on your account, or identifying a friend of interest on another user’s account.
(I’m in the MAC world so perhaps my PC brethren could chime in, but I am pretty sure the steps below are the same for PC’s as well.)
Step 1 – Install the free download of FireFox.
Step 2 – After the installation is complete, launch. Now download and install Greasmonkey.
If you are unfamiliar with Firefox add-ons then you might like this wiki article about Greasemonkey which is in essentially a JavaScript enabler for the FireFox browser.
Step 3 – Restart FireFox. Now download and install at Al’s scripts the script “Twitter Friend Bios at a Glance”. The explanations for install are pretty clear … really just hit the green install button and follow the prompts.
Step 4 – Now, go to your Twitter follower or following page and separate the wheat from the chaff.
[ Hey! follow @imusicmash, the writer of "Al's Scripts", on twitter too. ]
There are only so many hours in the day… and all of us (well, except for maybe Chris Brogan) have other commitments outside of social media. Wouldn’t it be great if you could just put Twitter on autopilot? You can, but first…
Remember, Twitter is about having conversations and building relationships. The more you automate, the less you converse. Use these tools as a way to spark and enhance conversations, not as a way to step back from Twitter completely. Okay, now on to the tools.
Schedule Tweets for a Later Time
Using TweetLater you can schedule individual tweets to be posted at a later time. You can choose either a specific time (i.e. October 13, at 12:40 PM) or a certain interval from now (i.e. 3 hours from now).
TweetLater also has a paid version (starting at $29.97/month) that allows you to setup recurring tweets. The web service also has other features to help you manage your Twitter stream such as automatically following people who follow you (or unfollowing people who unfollow you), and can manage an unlimited number of accounts.
A kinder & gentler strategy for finding quality twitter follows & followers.
Note: The First Follow strategy posted here has been rendered ineffective due to changes by Twitter in how the following-follower page URL is generated. Nuts Twitter! In the meantime this D.Cortesi tool, [my first follow] is similar, well sort of.
Originally published at KentBeatty.com on 3.26.09, updated and improved for tweetvalley.com
If you have an established Twitter account and some interesting updates, here is a way of having some fun generating quality follows & followers. This is NOT automated … just basic human psychology. All legit twitter users need to be needed and want to follow “like minded” twitterees …
- 1. Find a user you follow that you really dig, i.e. they are like minded, in the same line of work, interesting, etc. etc., whatever your criteria for judging a twitter user. Now, go to this user’s home page using the standard twitter web viewer.
- 2. Hit the person’s “following” link. (This displays the “last twenty-one people” this user decided to follow, in the order they followed.)
http://twitter.com/KentBeatty/following
- 3. Scroll down to the bottom of the page, hit the “next” button. This displays the “second to last twenty-one people” the user has chosen to follow, in the order they followed.
http://twitter.com/KentBeatty/following?page=2
- 4. Look at the user’s total following number, how many users is this user following, in this case 1,856. Divide 1,856 by 20, that equals 92.8. Now, let’s go to the page that reveals the first users that this user decided to follow. Take the number you arrived at: (rounded up) in this case 93, and put that number at the end of the URL address in the command line of your browser. …(cont’d)
By Kent Beatty of Talent Media Group – Follow him @kentbeatty
This post was originally published at KentBeatty.com on June 18, 2009
TweetDeck has been my Twitter Control Center for several months and now with Version 0.26 it’s even more powerful:
Newest features:
- Manage Multiple Twitter Accounts – (for you split personality types)
- Sync and Backup – to keep your TweetDeck safe
- Spam button – use this to avoid twitter spam
- iPhone – take all your TweetDeck favorites, groups, columns etc. with you!
Other features:
- Columns -You can display one column or many columns. I typically keep 10 columns open.
By Kent Beatty of Talent Media Group – Follow him @kentbeatty
Twitter’s new homepage as of July 28, 2009
Twitter has updated their homepage and made their search feature much more accessible and useable. Gone is the cartoonish “What are you doing?” days.
Everyone knows how to use search and is familiar with searching, but still most people don’t know much about twitter (the few million people that use Twitter regularly represent a tiny fraction of the planet, geographically and demographically.) Putting the search feature at center stage helps make new user’s feel more at home and helps the page look less “foreign” to them.
Twitter Co-founder, Biz Stone, said in a blog post about the new look: "The open and timely exchange of information will have a positive impact on the world and Twitter has a role to play."
By Kent Beatty of Talent Media Group – Follow him @kentbeatty
So when your friend says, “I just don’t get the twitter thing.” Send them over to this blog post. Lee and Sachi LeFever make excellent videos using a technique they call “paperworks.” They use simple tools, a white board and paper cut outs, and plain English in their fight against complexity. Although appearing deceptively simple, their videos have lurking under the surface lessons that have been crafted with great care. Below is their simple explanation of Twitter.
Twitter in Plain English
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