It should come to no shock to many of you that I am, and have been, a huge fan of Twitter since I first created my @khawe account in the spring of 2007. Over the 2 years I have been on Twitter I have tried just about every Twitter tool out there, over time I have settled on certain ones that are either the best for what I need or I am just comfortable using.
Here is a summary of all of the current Twitter tools I prefer to use through out my day.
- iPhone: When i first got my iPhone I started using Twitterrific, but slowly became annoyed with its UX and functionality. I tried a couple of other apps but eventually settled on TwitterFon – which I have been using ever since.
- BlackBerry: Since I have an iPhone the need to use my BlackBerry on a regular basis has diminished. However, the only app I have used – and would recommend – is TwitterBerry.
- Desktop Client: I was a big fan of Twirl for a long time but eventually moved on to TweetDeck. TweetDeck has been fairly stable for me since I started using it, plus the grouping of friends and UI really can’t be beat.
- URL Shortener: You can’t use Twitter on a regular basis and not have a preferred URL shortener – mine is Bit.ly. Bit.ly provides the basic functionality you need but with click tracking, great tool to see which of your tweets people are actually interested in.
- Twitter Management: Since I have multiple Twitter accounts (personal, professional, etc) I use SplitTweet to manage them all – great tool to send out one Tweet to any / all accounts without logging into each one separately.
- Page Tweet: Say you are reading something on a website that you feel your Twitter audience would appreciate / like, instead of copying the URL and title of the article I use TwitThis to automatically share the contents with my followers.
- WordPress Plugin: I have used just about every Twitter WordPress plugin out there and have had some issue or another with all of them. The Twitter Tools plugin isn’t perfect but it does what I need (auto post to Twitter blog posts and pull in Twitter feeds) and is fairly stable.
I am sure there are better Twitter tools out there, but these are the ones that work best for me. How do you use Twitter? What tools do you prefer and why?
Dont forget to follow me @khawe on Twitter.
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http://textsnip.com is a good way to paste a large block of text into a tweet. no password, no sign up