Fast Traffic-Twitter Add Ons and Tools

Everyone is jumping on the Twitter band wagon. Twitter is the hottest social networking platform which facilitates micro blogging allowing for huge social networking opportunities. Twitter allows 140 characters mini blog posts to interact with people in your network. You can keep in touch with friends and family or you can use it to as a marketing tool to promote your business. Twitter gives you a global visibility and exposure.

Numerous add-ons have been introduced which allow you to tweet in an easier manner to increase your tweeter followers. These add-on applications are enjoyable and fun to use and mostly they are absolutely free.

Twittergroups

This is an extremely useful tool if you have a growing network. It becomes difficult to keep track of people whom you want to connect on a regular basis when your networks of friends start growing. With Twittergroups you can create your own group. This could be a group of colleague or group of project team members and so on. You create a group and invite people you want to share your tweets with. This tool also enables you to join some group which shares some common interest like gardening or photography. You simply need to search for a group and become friends and follow them through twitter.

Twellow

Twellow is another twitter add-on which allows you to search for people geographically or by other categories. You just need to enter the name of a geographic location and you will get a list of people that are in the same area using twitter. You can find other twitter users sharing the same interest or search for a list of people interested in the same company as you are or any other category you wish to choose.

TweetDeck

This add-on is great for people with lot of followers. It is an Adobe Air desktop application which collects huge quantity of social media and displays it in a columned user interface which is unique. It presents the information to the user in a concise manner which is easy to monitor. It is a favorite with many twitter users.

twhirl

Twhirl is a desk top application for twitter. You can have access to almost all the features that are available on twitter website through this. You will get notification for new message through twhirl. It will also shorten long URLs. This allows you to share video recordings on twitter too.

TwitterHolic

TwitterHolic provides a graph on all your activities on twitter. Using this graph you can see how many followers you have had in the past, how many new persons have joined the group and what tweets you have had by date. TwitterHolic would rank you according to your follower or location. It is a kind of tabulated history of your twitter account. It will also give you a list of people using twitter sharing same location or interest.

Tweetstats

Twetstats is somewhat like TwitterHolic but much more precise. To follow your history of followers you simply have to enter your twitter user name and wait for the graph to appear. It will do all that TwitterHolic does and much more. It will give you detailed view of you twitter usage pattern. For example it will show you that you may have twitted maximum in the month of April. You may also come to know that on Sundays you twitted the most while on Mondays you may not have used twitter at all. It will also give you the precise time of your Tweetering on particular days.

Tweeter and WordPress

You will find quite a number of plugins for WordPress regarding twitter. You can easily add a twitter plugin to WordPress which does most of what you want. You can also select another plugin if you feel your previous one leaves certain things undone. Now you can have your WordPressblog and twitter work together.

• Tweet My Blog WordPress plugin
This plugin is free for its users. This will help you to update your tweets every time you post a new blog with a link to your blog post in twitter. It will automatically ping you every time you post a new blog.

• Twitterwidget
With this plugin you can use the same blog for both WordPress and twitter. Every time you post a blog in twitter, it will post it straight to your WordPress blog.

• TwitThis
With this tool you can add a twitter icon to every post and page. This would enable all your readers to have access to your blog entries via twitter simply by clicking on the icon.

• Twitter Tools
This is a WordPress plugin that integrates your twitter account with WordPress blog. It will pull your tweets from twitter to WordPress blog and create new tweets on the blog post.

• Twitter WordPress Sidebar Widget
Your WordPress sidebar will have customized updates and individual links to each status update on twitter.

Twitter and Firefox

The huge crowd that is attracted twitter seems to be growing day by day. Therefore many tools and plugins are also being introduced to link it with your other online activities. There are a number of plugins for Firefox as well.

• Tweetbar
This adds a sidebar to Firefox which can be used for sending and receiving messages from twitter.

• TwitterNotifier
While you are on Firefox, TwitterNotifier notifies you if you have any updates in your twitter. You will find the icon which activates it in the right bottom corner of Firefox. You can use it to send tweets and read your friend’s tweets with this application.

• TwitterFox
This is a great Firefox add-on. It allows you to tweet without having to leave the website you are working on. It uses an icon in the status bar to notify when you get an update from your friends on twitter and allows you to update your tweets with small text bar on the side.

It is quite clear that twitter is a powerful tool that helps you in many spheres of your life. You can catch up with your friends and family, make new friends, create interest groups, introduce new projects and use it as a marketing tool. The add-ons that have been found by people make life much easier for twitter users and increase the power of social networking on twitter.

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