10 free tools to make the most of Twitter

Blackbird Pie allows you to easily embed attractive “screenshots” of specific tweets on any website or blog. For more information and a step-by-step tutorial, click here.

Buffer

Buffer is a very simple, yet fantastic scheduling tool for Twitter. Enter a few tweets in your dashboard and the platform will schedule the messages throughout the day. You can configure the intervals between your tweets.

Buffer also provides analytics, including the number of times each update has been retweeted and the number of clicks links inside tweets have received.

For more information, click here.

CalTweet

CalTweet is another smart tool that makes sharing events on Twitter (as well as Facebook, MySpace, StumbleUpon and Digg) a breathe. For more information, click here.

Hashtags.org

Hashtags.org provides graphs and real-time tracking of hashtags, the keywords used to categorize tweets according to topics. This tool is also helpful when it comes to monitoring what is being said about a brand and/or finding interesting people in a specific niche.  

For more information, click here.

InboxQ

InboxQ allows entrepreneurs, brands and experts to connect with people who are looking for answers to their questions or issues on Twitter. Help them and increase your chances of taking your business to the next level!

For more information, click here.

Mentionmapp

Mentionmapp is an interactive (and attractive) tool that loads a user’s tweets to show what people in their network are talking about and to whom. You can click on names to have access to mentions and details from their profile.

For more information, click here.

Rapportive

Rapportive is an extension for Gmail. Every time a user receives an email, they can see the sender’s social media information next to the message. This information includes their picture, occupation, latest tweets, and the links to the social networking sites of which they are a member. A user can also leave notes on their profile.

Most importantly, Rapportive turns a Gmail inbox into a mini-Twitter. You can follow, reply and retweet without leaving Gmail.  

For more information, click here.

Triberr

Triberr is an excellent tool that helps increase your visibility and traffic to your blog(s). Basically, every time you publish a new article, people in your ‘tribe’ (group of members with common interest) automatically tweet it to all of their followers. And the same happens with other tribers who publish new content.

To join Triberr, you need to get an invitation from an existing member. Click here for more information.

TweetDeck

With HootSuite, TweetDeck is probably the best social media monitoring tool for Twitter. This platform, a stand-alone client, allows you to centralize your social media tasks. For example, you can check your Twitter messages or create and monitor groups and lists. Further, you can also update all your social media profiles (Facebook, LinkedIn, Google Buzz, Foursquare and MySpace) directly from TweetDeck.

For more information, click here.

Twylah

Twylah is the perfect tool for celebrities and businesses. Users are given optimized, SEO-friendly pages that showcase content based on their trending topics on Twitter. Users can also take full ownership of their Twitter content via a custom domain.

For more information, click here.

Have you any of those tools? If so, what do you think?

More articles on Twitter:

• Best free Twitter applications
• Twitter introduces its new Follow Button
• Raise awareness for your cause with the Tweet Button
• Make your website and blog more interactive with Twitter buttons and widgets
• Twitter: 10 great ways to get more followers
• Five tips to use Twitter efficiently
• Learn to use hashtags
• Interview with entrepreneur Jason Hill

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