Twitter Tools You Should Know

Today Twitter becomes one of the most important methods to keep in touch with your families and friends. Also a lot of bloggers and Internet marketers are using twitter as a good marketing tool. If you haven’t had any chance to use Twitter and wondering what it is, watch this video here.

Twitter is a great tool, however there are still some limitations in use such as scheduling your tweets and finding wide range of people in your interesting area. But that’s ok because there are heaps and heaps of awesome tools out there to enhance your twitter experience.

Here I have listed 50 essential twitter tools in no particular order. Hope you enjoy this post and get many helpful tools for your twitter networking.

Please add your comments if you are using any other cool twitter tools!

jQuery Plugins

Juitter
Juitter has a live mode which can display the latest tweets with an Ajaxed interface.

Tweet!
Put twitter on your website with tweet!, an unobtrusive javascript plugin for jquery.

jQuery plugin for Twitter
A simple, unobtrusive and customisable client-side method for easily embedding a Twitter feed into a web page.

Wordpress Plugins

Twitter Tools
Twitter Tools is a plugin that creates a complete integration between your WordPress blog and your Twitter account.

Twitter Updater
The Twitter Updater automatically sends a Twitter status update to your Twitter account when you create, publish, or edit your WordPress post.

Twitter Updater when it doens’t work cool
Modification of Victoria’s Twitter updater for Wordpress

TwitterComments
The plugin will post the comments made on your blog to a specified Twitter account.

Twitter Widget
Here’s a neat way to let visitors to your blog or profile page on the web know what you’re up to at the moment

Mobypicture
Mobypicture lets you share postings to your Twitter, Flickr, Wordpress, Blogspot, Tumblr, Hyves and Jaiku accounts from your mobile phone, email or from the web, including pictures, text and soon video and audio!

Firefox Add-ons

TwitBin
TwitBin is an extension for firefox that brings the power of twitter right in your browser. Quickly and easily send and receive messages via twitter in your firefox browser.

tweetbar
Tweetbar is a wicked cool Twitter sidebar for Firefox and Flock.

TwitterFox
TwitterFox is a Firefox extension that notifies you of your friends’ tweets on Twitter.

Twitter Toolbar
Toolbar for the Firefox browser. Quickly post updates, and check for replies.

Friendbar
Friendbar makes it easy to keep in touch with friends on Facebook and Twitter.

Twitter Line
Twitter Line is an Add-on for Firefox that displays your Twitter time line on Toolbar as like as a head line(ticker).

Twitter StatusBar 1.1
Twitter Statusbar provides a readily accessible input for twitting
allowing you to twit in just a few keystrokes.

Yoono
Manage all your social networks including Twitter in one place.

StockTwits
you can easily catch up with the latest conversations.

Desktop Clients

twhirl
twhirl is a social software desktop client, based on the Adobe AIR platform.

TweetDeck
TweetDeck is an Adobe Air desktop application that is currently in public beta. It aims to evolve the existing functionality of Twitter by taking an abundance of information.

Twitterrific
Twitterrific is a fun application that lets you both read and publish posts or “tweets” to the Twitter community website. (Mac OS X 10.4 or later, $14.95)

Spaz
Spaz is a Twitter client for users who value free, open-source software, attractive design, and customizability

Blogo
With a simple, intuitive interface and support for Wordpress, Blogger, Typepad, Typo, Drupal, and Expression Engine, Blogo is the best way to maintain your blog and spread the word with Twitter, Ping.fm and other supported services. (Mac OS X 10.4 or later, $25)

Other Gadgets

Google gadget
A Google gadget for the twitter

Opera Widget
This widget that lets you post new “tweets”, follow your friends and see their replies on Twitter.

OutTwit
OutTwit seamlessly integrates Twitter into Outlook.

iPhone

PocketTweets
PocketTweets is a Web-based Twitter client for the Apple iPhone.

TwitterFon
TwitterFon is a simple, clean, easy to use, and super fast Twitter client for your iPhone and iPod Touch.

Tweetie
Fast, full-featured twitter client for iPhone and iPod touch

Twittelator Pro
Twittelator Pro is a new application for your iPhone that you can download from the App Store on your iPhone and begin following people and posting Twitters & photos.

Twinkle
Upload photos and update your Twitter account.

Stats & Trend

Twitter Stats
This is a totally ugly engine to produce some stats from your Twitter feed and present them with the Google Charts API, including Tweets per hour of the day, total Tweets per day/month, top @replies and top overall @s.

TweetStats
Graph your Twitter Stats including Tweets per hour, Tweets per month, Tweet timeline and Reply statistics

Twist
See trends in twitter

Twitter Counter
You can add the Twitter Counter Badge to display the number of followers.

Design

Twitbacks
Brand yourself on Twitter by creating your very own Twitter background.

Twitterpatterns
Free background patterns for twitter

Make a Good Impression with a Custom Twitter Background
A nice article how to design your twitter background

Search & Tracking Friends

TweetScan
Tweet Scan searches Twitter, identi.ca and other Laconica-based sites with more being added all the time.

Twubble
It searches your friend graph and picks out people who you may like to follow.

Twitter Karma
It’s a Flash application that fetches your friends and followers from Twitter when you click the “Whack!” button, then displays them for you, letting you quickly paginate through them.

Twits Like Me
Find other twitterers who probably share your interests.

crowd status
Crowdstatus is made up of crowds, each crowd contains people and each person in the crowd has a status.

Twitterholic
You can find out who the most popular twitter users are.

twitterSpy
Search Twitter public timeline in real time on different locations.

WhosTalkin
WhosTalkin.com is a social media search tool that allows users to search for conversations surrounding the topics that they care about most.

Scheduler & Alerts

Twuffer
Twuffer allows the Twitter user to compose a list of future tweets, and schedule their release.

EasyTweets
It’s total web-based Twitter management Tools as well as scheduling posting Twitter.

twilert
Twilert is a Twitter application that lets you receive regular email updates of tweets containing your brand, product, service, well any keyword you like really.

Tweet Later
Schedule tweets and keep your Twitter stream ticking over with new tweets even when you’re not in front of your computer.