Twitter Tools and Tricks

Reflecting on how mobile media has come to encompass “social media” – especially with Twitter leading the charge – below, please find a few helpful tools and tricks to support your Twitter addiction:

Twitter Tools:

• Seesmic Desktop (Adobe Air client for fast multi-account tweet management and search)
• TweetDeck (alternative to the above)
• Tweetie (the best iPhone client)
• MrTweet (search submission tool to help get followers)
• @geofollow (keyword submission tool)
• Twitpic (for better photo tweeting)
• Twitterholic (follower rankings and stats)
• Last, click here for an exhaustive list of 3rd party twitter apps…

Twitter Tricks:

• Learn how to use @replies and why
• Learn how to retweet (RT) and why
• Learn how to use direct messages (DM) and why
• Build your followership by following
• Open up 50% more from your core focus to get scale
• Hunt for ‘network nodes’ with lots of followers
• Beware of ‘get rich quick’ scammers
• Follow many, see results and cut down bad apples
• Learn how to use #hashtags for search
• The #-mark is not so much needed any longer
• Look for currently popular and relevant hash tags and include them to get ‘stream visibility’
• Learn how to manage selective FB/twitter updating