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30 Most Amazing Twitter Applications

March 30th, 2010

The Twiverse is growing day by day. It wouldn’t be a surprise if the numbers suggest that a new Twitter based application is being released daily. With Thousands of applications already available, it is really difficult to keep a track of useful twitter applications.

Listing here some of the amazing, popular and extremely helpful twitter applications for your business and personal needs. The order of the list is based on the number of Delicious bookmarks each of these twitter applications has received, till the time of compiling the list.

Twitterfeed.com: This helps you feed your blog to twitter, facebook and some other social networking sites. Just provide them feed URL with option to prefix and post fix custom message around your feed.

BookMarks on Delicious – 8098

TweetDeck:TweetDeck is the leading desktop application for the real-time and social web, allowing users to connect with Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and MySpace. A great tool to manage multiple Twitter accounts simultaneously.

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Wefollow.com: Find celebrities, actors, TV personalities, or new Twitter friends in your area. WeFollow is a directory of Twitter users organized by interests. It lists the number of followers along with the profile.

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Twitpic.com: If you have a Twitter account then you already have a Twitpic account. You can use same credentials to login to twitpic. It lets you share photos on Twitter from your Phone, API or the site itself.

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Hootsuite.com: Hoot Suite lets you save your time by letting you managing multiple social networking accounts.

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Twhirl.org: Twhirl works both on Windows (2000/XP/Vista/Win7) and Mac OSX. It connects you to multiple Twitter, laconi.ca, Friendfeed and Seesmic Video accounts.

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TweetStats: Used by over 100, 000 twitter users. This lets you graph your twitter stats by Tweets per hour,Tweets per month,Tweet timeline & Reply statistics

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Twitter.grader.com: Check how Influential Are You On Twitter? Just enter your twitter username (password not needed) to see your grade and Twitter rank compared to millions of other users that have been graded.

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Twitscoop.com: Receive, send tweets, and find new friends instantly, without ever reloading your page. Search and follow what’s buzzing on twitter in real-time.

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Tweetscan.com: Get email when your keywords are mentioned on Twitter. Tweetscan searches Twitter and other microblogging sites and sends you a daily or weekly email alert on keyword. Useful to keep track of a trend or topic in real time without searching each time. Set and forget.

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Twtpoll.com: Twtpoll is a feedback tool that helps you to conduct polls/surveys on Twitter, Facebook or any other social media site.

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Twitturly.com: The URLs you are tweeting is being tracked by twitturly. It tracks the URLs flying around the Twitterverse. Whether URLs are obvious or masked using URL shortening service it goes to the real link and count each tweet carrying the link as a vote and shows 100 most popular URLs over the last 24 hours.

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Tweetbeep.com: A real help for managing online reputation, catching all @replies and @mentions. Keep track of conversations that mention you, your products, your company, anything, with hourly updates! You can even keep track of who’s tweeting your website or blog, even if they use a shortened URL (like bit.ly or tinyurl.com)

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Grouptweet.com: It turns a normal twitter account into a group communication hub. Post updates using DM. You have the options to protect your tweets.

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Twitip.com:Looking to improve your twitter profile. Browse thrugh twitip for tips and tutorials on twitter.

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Twitalyzer.com:Input your screen name and “Twitalyze your influence, impact, engagement, generosity, and nearly 30 more measures of success in Twitter.

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Backtweets.com:Have not came across a better tool than this for tracking URL. Just enter any URL and see how many people are tweeting your links

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Nearbytweets.com: Enter the city and the topic you want to see tweets about. This great tool lets you see real times topical tweets streaming from your nearby locality

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Tweetvolume.com: Enter a few words or phrases and see how often they appear on Twitter. I am sure you would get addicted to this if you are looking to optimize your social media campaigns

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Twitcam.com: Connect your webcam, Login with TwitterIf you don’t have a Twitter account and click on the broadcast button and Click the broadcast button. Twitcam posts your video description and link to Twitter for all your followers to see. While broadcasting, chat with your viewers via Twitter right from your broadcast page. Once you’re done going live, it archives your video and display it on the same page. Isn’t this ultra cool?

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Twuffer.com: It allows you to compose a list of future tweets, and schedule their release.

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Twifluence.com: Are you good at understanding stats? If yes then this tools lets you measure the combined influence of twitterers and their followers, with a few social network statistics thrown in as bonus.

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Twitdom.com: Though the source for my this post is not Twitdom but if you are looking to create another post on amazing twitter applications then try exploring twitdom. It is a directory for twitter applications.

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Twistory.net: This allows you to subscribe to your twitter messages in any calendar application supporting iCalendar(Google Calendar, iCal, Outlook, …), offering a quick and interesting overview of what you’ve been saying, doing and thinking over the past few days, weeks and months.

BookMarks on Delicious – 1182

Twtvite.com: It’s an event management tools helping you make meaningful connections and organize tweetups

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Klout.com: An interesting tool analyzing the power of your tweets and influence it creates on your audience based on number of factors. Klout goes beyond analyzing the quantity of messages on any particular subject to identify the topics people with the influence to drive action are talking about

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Splitweet.com: How many twitter accounts do you manage? This tool provides you easy management for multiple Twitter accounts and helps you in brand monitoring.

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TweetEffect.com: Find out which of your Twitter updates made people follow or leave you. Simply enter your Twitter ID in the following form.

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Twibs.com:Give twitter users a place to find businesses on twitter. It’s a slightly newer application but can be really helpful for businesses as well as customers.

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Twellow.com: This Twitter Directory is a product of WebProNews listing public Twitter accounts, with hundreds of categories and search features to help you find people who matter to you.

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Should You Bid on Your Competitors Brand Name

March 23rd, 2010

We all do this actually while adding keywords to our adword campaign. But were slightly unsure of the legal compliance in doing so. No more speculations now as today Google announced through its official blog post that a European Court of Justice rules in its favour.

The litigation was on the question that whether the advertisers should be allowed to show advertisements when another company’s brand name is entered as a search query. The case was filed as a trademark violation for which court has confirmed that Google has not infringed trade mark law by allowing advertisers to bid for keywords corresponding to their competitors’ trade marks.

This is actually a great way to preserve the right of free flow of information on internet. Trademarks definitely help us to recognize a product or brand in our day to day life. They are definitely the key to market and advertise a company’s product or services. But the verdict confirms trademarks rights are not absolute at least when bidding for them as a keyword in your search engine advertising campaign.

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Google.cn is Redirecting to Google.com.hk

March 22nd, 2010

Speculation had been swirling for sometimes that Google is preparing to announce a decision to pull out of China — the world’s largest Internet market by users — or at least shut down its Chinese search engine.

Some days back it was unoficially said that Google will be closing down all its operations from April 10, 2010. Today it seems that the judgement day has really approached closer. Redirceting Google China Search to Google Hong Kong confirms this speculations.

Google informed the State Department several days in advance of its January public announcement that it might be forced to pull out of the China market due to hacking and censorship concerns.

Google started its operations in China in 2006. Since its inception, the relationship between Chinese Govt. and Google officials has never been in accord. While many argued Google was complicit in the censorship imposed by Chinese government, Google insisted it was nevertheless serving the public interest even though it was furnishing censored results.

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Tips To Expand Your Keyword List In Your Adword Campaign

March 21st, 2010

Shifting budget to the highest converting keywords by looking into Google Analytic account can be one good ways to optimize your adword campaign. But what steps should you take when you need to expand your keyword list.
Here are a few steps and Google tools using which you can optimize your adword campaign beyond Google Analytics.

Digg out the best performing keywords from your Google Analytics keyword report

Click on the Goal Conversion tab and then click on the comparison Icon seen on the top right side

Now you can visually see the performance of your keywords. Add all good performing keywords into your adword account.

Now open another useful Google tool

Search based keyword tool. Input these keywords, along with your site’s URL to find which keywords are currently not used in your adword campaign. Suggestions from this tool are particularly useful because they’re specific to the site and keywords you define, and are based on actual, past Google queries. Export all suggested keywords into CSV and filter as per your budget or any other field applicable to your campaign.

Follow up now by using Google Insights for Search

This tool will let you know what world is searching for. Optimize through geotargetting by finding out where regional interest is highest.

These are just a few examples of how you can capitalize on the many Google tools available for improving your website ROI, so start expanding and optimizing your possibilities today!