I hardly use twitter but it is a great service and a must for anyone who takes blogging serious. Even if you don’t want to post updates about what you’re doing 24/7 there are still some really great uses for twitter.
I figured I would compile a quick list of some of the twitter apps I use and find pretty useful.
Twitterfeed is probably my favourite one because it’s so great for getting visitors to your blog. Twitterfeed will automatically send a ‘tweet’ with a link to your latest blog post for all your followers to see. All you have to do is login to twitterfeed with an openid, add your blog and twitter login/password and it’s ready to go. You can set when and how often feeds are sent and how to show the tweet.
I just found qwitter the other day and thought it would be cool to use. Basically it tells you when people unfollow you on twitter, and your last tweet that might have made them unfollow you. It’s again pretty easy and literally takes seconds to sign up. Just put in your twitter name and e-mail and they do the rest.
Twittercounter is another free service I like. It’s basically the same as the feedburner chicklet but instead displays how many twitter followers you have. It’s updated daily and you can see a graph of your followers as they go up.
Oh and if you’re not already, go ahead and follow me on twitter.
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Hey Bryn,
I myself recently joined Twitter and have too already seen the benefits of this cool program.
It’s a great way to casually interact between friends and business associates. I’ve heard of some of those apps and will check them out.
Thanks for the post!
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I’m already using TwitterFeed, once I got it set up, it’s worked great ever since. Although, like you, I hardly use Twitter either, I feel like I am missing out.
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Bryn Youngblut Reply:
October 28th, 2008 at 6:55 am
I think the main reason I don’t use twitter much is because it is a HUGE time waster.
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Fabien Reply:
October 28th, 2008 at 7:06 am
Agreed! 🙂
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Excellent for this twitter newb! I thought the feed things was a plugin though?
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Bryn Youngblut Reply:
October 28th, 2008 at 11:58 am
If you’re talking about the twittercounter, it’s just a line of code you can put anywhere.
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No, although that’s cool, I was referring to the thing that automatically sends your latest post as a tweet…isn’t there a plugin for that?
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Bryn Youngblut Reply:
October 28th, 2008 at 12:59 pm
Ohh..I have no idea but I doubt it you just set it up all on their website and they do all the rest. I think you may be talking about the little widget that shows peoples latest tweets? This might be it: http://www.velvet.id.au/twitter-wordpress-sidebar-widget/
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Nope not that one either lol…thats even more annoying then tag clouds (impressive in itself)…I’ll check out the site. 🙂
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I still dont understand what is this Twitter thing is this another Facebook?? theres like soo many social bookmarking website it drives me nuts, Hi5, myspace and all that crap lol
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Bryn Youngblut Reply:
October 28th, 2008 at 10:29 pm
Go check it out, it’s almost like a constant instant message conversation with millions of people, lol.
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Those are some cool apps! Thanks for the info.
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I joined up but never had time but sure will check it out, my bad if i am spamming on your blog lol, i owned a few successful online stores and was power seller on eBay but kind of fed up with it now and very interested in this blog world LOL
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I don’t use any of the tools you mentioned. But then again, I’m not a very active user of Twitter. I only use it to follow folks I know and could care less about getting a ton of followers. On an interesting side note, did you see that recent Army report about Twitter as a potential tool for terrorists?
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Hi,
Twitter is great for getting your message out quickly. They call it micro blogging and I guess that’s a good description.
You’ve got some useful tools shown here. Automation is great for those short on time, automatically having your blog posts updated on twitter etc.
Thanks for the useful info..
Ken
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Hello
This information was very usefull to me. Thank again an keep ding the good work !
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There few more interesting names. Read all about them on http://dot-me.of-cour.se/2009/07/21/twitter-me/
Cheers!
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