Effective Twitter Tools (Part one)

According to wikipedia Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that enables its users to send and read other

users' updates known as tweets. Tweets are text-based posts of up to 140 characters in length which are displayed on the user's

profile page and delivered to other users who have subscribed to them (known as followers).

According to one technology As of December 2008, 11% of online American surfers said they used a tool like Twitter service that

allowed them to share updates about themselves or to see the updates of others or followers.

Twitter authorities said the following when they answer the question 'Why do so many people seem to like Twitter? ', "
Simplicity has played an important role in Twitter's success. People are eager to connect with other people and Twitter makes that

simple. Twitter asks one question, "What are you doing?" Answers must be under 140 characters in length and can be sent via mobile

texting, instant message, or the web."

The twitter.com site’s membership rose to 9.3 million which represents a 131% rise on February 2009. Some where on the web some

one commented like 'It’s Time To Start Thinking Of Twitter As A Search Engine'
So Twitter is such a mighty. To tame this mighty beast we need some tools. Here are some tools

1 ) TwittIt  --- This is a very simple tool for submitting your tweets easily. You can find this tool here TwittIt.com
2 ) TweetDeck --- TweetDeck is a personal browser for staying in touch with what’s happening now, connecting  with  contacts

across Twitter. TweetDeck shows you everything you want to see at once, so you can stay organised and up to date.

Things you can do with TweetDeck

Tweet directly from TweetDeck
View all new tweets in real-time
Use columns to create your personal dashboard
Create Groups to easily follow friends, colleagues or other interest groups

3) Twitterlicious ----  is a Windows application that makes using Twitter more fun. It handles all the hard work, leaving you to read

and write tweets with the minimum effort.
Small and concise UI, shows maximum amount of information in a minimum amount of space.
Hides itself in the system tray when not needed, and pops up a notification balloon when there’s a new tweet.
Displays the real read status of each tweet, so you know which tweets are new and can see any that you’ve missed.
Automatically refreshes itself at user-defined intervals.
Properly threaded so it won’t lock up if Twitter.com is unresponsive.
Support for authenticated web proxies.
4) Twobile  ----  is a Twitter client for Windows Mobile devices that adds many of the features you'd get from a desktop Twitter

client like Twhirl or Twitterific  The client allows you to update your status, view the public timeline, your friends timeline, send and

receive replies and direct messages, view featured users and favorites. And you can view avatars when you click on an individual message.
5) TwitterFox is a Firefox extension that notifies you of your friends' tweets on Twitter.
This extension adds a tiny icon on the status bar which notifies you when your friends update their tweets. Also it has a small text input field to update your tweets.