Twitter Tools- A Roundup

· Search.twitter: Find out what people are doing in real time. Search specific statistics, and then begin communications. Create lists of people who are united by a common interest and communicate with them.

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Twiends: Get more Twitter followers.

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Social Oomph: Tools to boost your social media productivity. Follow back your followers, send them welcome messages, and then start conversation.

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Tweetdeck

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Hootsuite: Social Media dashboard

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Twitpic: For sharing photos and videos on Twitter

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Yfrog: Another way to share images on Twitter.

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Google Real Time Search: Archives and allows you to search for old tweets.

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Trunk.ly: Automatically collects the links you share online and makes them searchable.

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Bit.ly toolbar extension for Chrome: An excellent add-on, and allows you to quickly and easily share links on Twitter without leaving the page you’re on. It supports multiple Twitter accounts.

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Packrati.us + Instapaper: Packrati.us (Twitter + Delicious) now supports Instapaper, a tool that allows you to save web pages to read later (you can do this online or on the move). These tools are a perfect fit for one another. Instapaper has an iPhone app, which makes Packrati.us incredibly useful for those who commute, and/or use their ReTweet function as a ‘note to self’ tool.

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Favorious: The best of Twitter, based on favourites.

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FollowerWonk: This is an excellent tool for finding people based on the information they’ve added about themselves in their Twitter bios.

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Formulists: Twitter lists you can create.

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About.me: About.me aggregates web presence in one place. You can hook up Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, your blogs, as well as various other websites or email addresses. And then you can use your About.me page as your Twitter bio link.

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Topsy: Real-time search for the social web.