Twitter is a fascinating social media channel, and the number of opportunities it delivers to businesses is all encompassing. Twitter has tools for absolutely everything — building relationship with clients, research, tracking followers, efficiency, and so on.
Here are some Twitter tools to amplify that would help you in your business. Of course, this doesn’t cover all of them, but a handful of good ones for you to start with.
Buffer is a tweet scheduling tool for your daily broadcasts. Buffer analytics gives a better understanding of the likeness of your Twitter followers as well.
HootSuite is an all in one social media management tool and the Twitter management features are outstanding. The dashboard allows you to keep track of all your published tweets, scheduled tweets and mentions at a glance.
TweetDeck is a desktop twitter management tool to organise your Twitter activities. With Deck.ly service, tweet longer messages by creating a shortened URL that directs followers to the rest of the tweet beyond 140 characters.
Socialoomph allows you to schedule tweets, track keywords and extend your Twitter profile in the free version. Premium version comes with features such as Facebook scheduling, tweet via email, get others’ updates via email, manage DM spam and much more at a price of 29.97 USD. Plus, automate welcome DM for new follower at an additional 3.97 USD.
Commun.it is the prodigious relationship manager in Twitter. Through this tool, you get only the messages and tweets that really matter. It does all the filtering, leaving you with only those people who would facilitate the growth of your community.
Small business and social media managers can automate their search marketing with the help of TweetFavy, a web application from Twitter. This app is perfect for people who want to grow their business marketing from scratch.
It is reputed to be the first company that endeavored to grow Twitter audience as a service. The tool monitors people who talk about your brand, tweets about them, and categorizes them based on their preferences and location.
ManageFlitter is a Twitter user management tool. You can classify the users into last tweet, location, follower count, language and whether they follow back or not.
Twello is an ingenious technique through which you can grow the number of followers by the hundreds. The tool helps you search through people by their business or geographical locations. The tool also helps you in narrowing your search and broadening your capacity, so you get more people relevant to your business.
The main attraction of the tool is that it studies the behavioral analytics of your target segment based on the keywords they type and their profile.
TargetGrow, formerly known as TargetPattern, delivers real and organic promising Twitter followers. If you sign up with them they will send you the list of people whose tweets you can favorite.
This is for businesses that are looking to boost their fan following quickly. This tool helps you to connect with people through Instagram and Twitter, on the basis of country and preferences. However, it does not automatically add followers to your network.
Tweepi is an easy Twitter user management tool that flushes out all inactive or non followers in single click.
An effective tool that would help you follow users and even unfollow them if they seem oblivious to your marketing endeavors. You can manage both Twitter and Instagram accounts effectively.
An intelligent social media management tool that monitors your followers in real time. It aids in audience management and sends in weekly reports of the same. The tool can handle multiple accounts at the same time.
BuzzSumo is a tool to find out the most influencing content in Twitter for your keywords. You can retrieve the freshest content, get similar topic ideas and find out how it is so popular.
The tool lets you create and manage your own personalized online newspaper where you can publish and share content from various social media.
Tribber is a tool that helps you be a part of a like-minded bloggers community (using invitations). Once inducted into one, plug in your RSS feeds and the rest of the tribe can tweet your posts. Vice versa, retweet posts from members manually or automatically.
Topsy is a social media search engine that gives the most recent social updates and tweets on your keyword. It gives more insights on keyword volume, sentiment score and other analytics as well.
Nuzzel is a tool to find out what your friends and friends’ friends are reading. Needless to say, this will give you leads to your next step.
If you are looking to give personalized content for your followers, then you can do it with Swayy. This tool is a pretty good content curation site.
New.me is like having a news organization within social media. The ‘news organization’ consists of a group of people based at New York who also build applications and promote it, while a daily briefing would be delivered to your inbox.
Trends24 gives the detailed breakdown of the trending topics in each hour of the last 24 hours in different countries. This is highly helpful for geography based Twitter campaigns.
Brands and businesses can gain optimum publicity and exposure if they make use of The Latest Twitter tool. This is almost like a citizen journalism news portal where you get to publish any content — be it entertainment, news, music, politics, general news or topical subjects.
Now Twitter users can easily stream live video content with its own unique URL.
Just as the name suggests, Twtpoll conducts surveys for all your business needs. Your viewers can also participate in these surveys and make use of the quiz feature, based on which you can make complex business decisions.
Twipho is an incredible tool that acts as a Twitter photo search engine. You can upload a series of photos and let your people know about your products and services. Incorporate keywords and location, so your audience can easily find you. The photos can be shared from twitpic.com, img.ly and yfrog.com, and embedded into your tweets.
SonarSolo is a search tool to find out related content, trends and top Twitterers on a particular keyword, in a visual friendly way.
You can keep track of your followers and know how much time they spend in action at Twitter through the Followerwonk tool. This would help you schedule your tweets accordingly.
Riffle is a browser plugin tool that gives data visualizations for any Twitter user. Get enlightened with detailed data on statistics, popular hashtags, most shared links and connected profiles.
Twitonomy gives you detailed analysis on various Twitter users, their tweets and engagements.
SumAll provides daily or weekly email reports for Twitter stats covering your tweets, growth of your followers, your mentions and your engagement.
Twitter Counter lets you manage the stats of multiple twitter accounts in one go.
SocialRank is your Twitter fan management tool that gives you the sorted list of best followers, most influential followers and most engaged followers.
SocialBro acts as the most comprehensive tool for social media managers. The tool is integrated with a number of interesting features, and would let you do almost anything you want with your Twitter account.
A real-time hashtag tracker for Twitter, Instagram and Facebook, meant specifically for campaigns and topics. This is an easy and affordable software.
Mention keeps track of all the keywords that you mentioned in tweets, analyses them, and displays them via email or on the dashboard.
ThinkUp is the ideal tool for building your brand. Some people do it for fun as well. The daily insights are published on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.
If you want to know about the Twitter activity of your account, then get hold of TweetReach as it provides powerful analysis of the same. Users can enjoy complete professional service at $99 per month.
Twitalyzer is an all-in-one web-based tool that gives you complete access to customer-related metrics. With this complete application, you can check the impact, influence, velocity, cloud and demographic results based on the preferences selected. Additionally, there is bit.ly integration so you can check the number of clicks your tweet has received from various Twitter accounts.
A professional third-party tool, but very powerful in analyzing influential and powerful followers in your account. It also studies the effect of your account on others.
Twtrland is known as Klear and it helps you do smart marketing. It would collect deep insights on the influencers, and based on this information, you can decide whether a particular influencer would be right for you or not.
Twilert gives you an email notification whenever the keywords you’re tracking are mentioned on Twitter.
Hashtagify.me is a hashtag analytics tool to know related tags, usage patterns, recent conversations and heavy influencers.
Using Rite Tag tool ensures that the hashtag that you entered is good, great or overly used — gives you its popularity and reach in social media. The coloured analytics recommends the best alternative hashtag at a glance.
Tweroid gives you the best time to tweet by analysing your previous tweets and your followers’ tweets which results in maximum engagement.
As the name suggests, Tweet4me takes a direct message from you to schedule the tweet as you mentioned.
GroupTweet allows to share one Twitter account for a group of people, without any password sharing. To know who tweeted what, the tool can also append usernames at the end of each tweet.
Bio is Changed, as the name suggests, alerts you if somebody changes their Twitter bio. Highly useful if you are tracking others’ job moves or bios in general.
An intelligent social media tool that would give you the latest search trends in one big map. Helps you find tweets in a map. When new tweets are recorded, the old ones are removed from the map.
TweetChat allows you to login to a specific hashtag discussion room that collects tweets on hashtag and automatically add the same hashtag to your reply tweets.
Tweetwally is a powerful tool that displays only the tweets you are interested in. In order to track such tweets, the tool uses keywords, hashtags and usernames. The search parameters can be customized and displayed in different formats.
As you can see, there’s no limit to the amount of tools you can use to maximize your Twitter marketing efforts. We hope you are able to find a couple of tools that you can connect with your Twitter account right away.
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