Posts from — March 2009

I have been hearing more and more phrases using the words “tweet” or “twitter” lately. Here are just a few: twittering, tweeting, my tweets, twitterers, tweeted, twitters, and my favorite tweetness. Is tweetness even a word? I guess it is now.

Ok, so since my last post I have found many other great websites that make twitter even more addictive (i mean useful). I hope you find them just as useful as I have.

TweetStats
I like how this one displays very visual graphs of your twitter stats quickly. Here is my TweetStats

TweetStats also shows tag clouds for your tweets. Check out my personal Tweet Cloud.

Mr. Tweet
This site was recommended to me by @cnotes and it provides statistics about your personal twitter account. Here are my Twitteristics
Today it tells me that I tweet 2X as much as the Twitter founders(5.2/day), I am Conversational(29%), and a Good Connector(27%)!

One of the best features about Mr. Tweet is the recommendations. You can request recommendations or give recommendations of other people you follow. If you would like to recommend me please do.

You can also follow Mr. Tweet (@mrtweet) and if you do he says that after you follow him,
he will send you a DM with what he finds for you!

WeFollow
This site was suggested to me by @sharp3d
The first thing you want to do is add yourself to WeFollow. This will add you to 3 different popular categories on Twitter. I just found out about this site today, but @sharp3d said that it boosted his follower count immediately. I can’t wait to see how this works out for me. This site also has a huge directory that is easy to search through and find new people to follow yourself. I found many people I was interested in following.

Let’s not forget my newest favorite twitter app for the iPhone called TwitterFon
It makes it so easy to reply, re-tweet, and direct message people you follow.

I have been reading a great book written by Joel Comm about the Power of Twitter. In this book Joel teaches how to properly use twitter as a great marketing and networking tool. He really opened my eyes to the strengths of how twitter can be used.

Here is a link on Amazon to buy his book called Twitter Power
You can also get the audiobook version of Twitter Power at Audible.com

Here is Joel’s twitter page.

Here are a few Cool sites that are very useful for Twitter users (twitterers)

Twitter Counter - gives you stats about your twitter account
Here is my stats page for Twitter @SocialShark
Notice how much it has gone up around the beginning of March, this was after reading TwitterPower.

Twellow - search for people on twitter

TweetLater - This site lets you schedule tweets, send automated thank you notes to new followers, automatically follow new followers, and much more.

Twist - see trends in twitter

TweetBeep - It’s like Google alerts for twitter

TwitThis - add this button to your website or blog so people can tweet about your site

TwitPwr - Shorten URLs for tweets

Twitter background site:

TwitterImage

These are my top apps for twitter:

TweetDeck - Mac app
Twittelator Pro - iPhone app