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Using Twitter for Business – part 2 – Making your Twitter life easier

Date: 13th June 2008
Comments: 7 Related Categories: Blogging, Bonus Tips, Cool Tools, Social Networking

Ten Ways to Make Your Twitter Life Better

The business world has already awakened to the power of Twitter as a promotional tool. This micro-blogging service has amazing potential to instantly provide customers with exclusive information, gain feedback and producing lightning fast market research.

Whether it’s for business or personal use, it’s fantastic to benefit from the best in Twitter technology. Here are my Top 10 ways for making your Twitter life easier.

1: TwitterFox is a useful little add-on for users of the Firefox browser. It appears as a tiny icon that instantly updates you on the Twitter status of friends. You can also use it to notify friends of your own current status.

2: The Twitter4Skype tool could not be an easier way to stay in touch. Users simply add Twitter4Skype as a contact on Skype. Any messages that you send to this contact appears on your Twitter instantly.

3: Using Twhirl, a desktop application for Twitter, one can use most of the functions of Twitter without having a webpage open. It also has the additional advantage of accessing Twitter user’s profiles and searching through public Tweets.

4: The FriendFeed service allows users to publicly share music, visited websites, photos and videos with others instantly. Best of all, Twitter messages can be shared as part of this service.

5: If you have a blog and you want to share it with your contacts on Twitter, the TwitterFeed application will allow you to publish your blog updates as instant Tweets on your favourite micro-blogging tool.

6: Twitterific is another great way to Twitter without needing to go to their webpage. Use Twitterific like any other IM program to instantly communicate with your contacts or clients. It’s specifically aimed at Apple Mac users.

7: The ‘Who Should I Follow’ website allows you to get suggestions on whose Tweets you should read. It searches your friends and uses that information to offer new contacts to ‘follow’. You can use the helpful sliders to adjust the results. This is a great way to make new friends on Twitter!

8: Summize is a search engine tool for Twitter. Search and explore the content of thousands of Tweets to discover information, attitudes and opinions to connect with like-minded Twitter users, or potential customers.

9: If you’re a lucky Apple iPhone owner, TwitterforiPhone allows users to get the most out of Twitter through their mobile phone. All of your favourite Twitter features are available in this version for the ultimate in mobile Twittering.

10: TweetLater is another helpful little tool for scheduling when you want your Tweets to be published. This is a very practical tool with great potential promotional application.

Now that the power of Twitter has been unleashed and you have discovered all of these new ways to make your life better, nothing can stop you from getting and staying connected.

If you would like to know more about promoting your business through Twitter, contact Nikki at Nikki@NikkiPilkington.com and of course, you can follow her Tweets on www.twitter.com/NikkiPilkington

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7 Responses to “Using Twitter for Business – part 2 – Making your Twitter life easier”

  1. Sarah says:
    June 13, 2008 at 10:03 am

    Great stuff Nikki, Have been following you for a while and its great watching how it works for you. Following your advice, we have gained two customers from twitter, thanks.

    Sarah

  2. admin says:
    June 13, 2008 at 10:09 am

    Nice one Sarah – glad it’s worked for you! I think more and more people are seeing that Twitter can be used to market their business – most people’s problem seems to be that they see it as a purely social tool for use by kids.

    Hopefully as more businesses such as yours see the benefits, we’ll see more people using it to make the most of their business and website.

  3. David Petherick says:
    June 13, 2008 at 10:09 am

    Great list Nikki, thanks for sharing.

    One I would ass: TweetBeep.

    This is a great service that works like Google Alerts for Twitter. You simply enter the phrases and key words you want to keep track of (company names, brands, your event, your name, whatever) and you get an update either hourly or daily when anyone mentions your buzz words.

    One really nice touch is the ability to be alerted to links to a specific URl, even when URL shortening services like Tinyurl are used – so you can see who’s talkign about you and linking to you.

    http://tweetbeep.com

    Regards, David

  4. David Petherick says:
    June 13, 2008 at 10:13 am

    I meant ‘add’ when I said ass.
    Of course. These letters are really close together.

  5. admin says:
    June 13, 2008 at 10:20 am

    Thanks David – a very useful tool

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    June 13, 2008 at 2:08 pm

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  7. Steve Ellwood says:
    June 14, 2008 at 10:55 pm

    Of you are into Twitter (I am) it might be worth a glance at TwitterApps

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