Eighteen More Helpful Twitter Applications for Freelancers
Posted February 24, 2010 in Social Media, Tools/Resources
Most freelancers agree that Twitter is a fun and useful social media tool that can help you network with peers and potential clients.
Twitter applications can help a freelancer to get even more benefits from Twitter.
Last summer we took a look at 15 Useful Twitter Tools for web workers. This post examines 18 more Twitter apps that freelancers might find useful and briefly explains what each one does.
Helpful Twitter Apps
Here are 18 helpful Twitter applications to help you get the most from your tweets:
- Twitpic–Fun application lets you share pictures on Twitter. You upload your photo on the TwitPic site and the URL is posted to your Twitter account. This could be a great way for designers and other whose work is visual to share.
- Twitterholic–Rates Twitter users by the number of followers, friends, and updates. The utility could be useful if you are looking for influential Twitterers to follow. However, I think this is mostly for fun.
- Twitturly–Site supposedly lists the most tweeted URLs in four categories: everything, news, pics, and videos. This could be useful for those looking for trending topics such as bloggers and web content creators. In my test, it didn’t seem consistent with other tweet counters.
- Twtpoll–Create a poll or survey and then post the link to your poll on Twitter. Be aware that unless you specify otherwise, advertisements will appear on your poll. This could be used for product or marketing research.
- Seesmic–You can stay involved in Twitter conversations without logging into Twitter, plus you can conduct searches and find users with similar interests. Seesmic has web, desktop, and mobile versions.
- Tweetmeme–Provides a Twitter button plug-in for posts and articles. It also tracks the most popular posts by category. You can also review which twitter users have tweeted a specific URL.
- Tweet Later–This is a full-featured Twitter/social media app that comes in a free and a professional version. Users can perform a variety of tasks including scheduling tweets in advance, tracking key works, and auto following.
- HootSuite–Another full-featured Twitter app that allows you to perform a variety of Twitter/social media tasks. Some tasks that you can perform include scheduling tweets, importing and managing Twitter lists, and tracking statistics.
- twtQpon–Helps you create coupons for a variety of social media sites including Twitter. This app could be really useful for small businesses and other companies who are Internet adept.
- DoesFollow?–Very simple app helps you discover which Twitter accounts are following each other. Answers the question “Does User A follow User B?” It could help you determine if those who you are following are following back. Despite the simplicity, I wasted a lot of time here.
- Tweet2Tweet–Helps you to see back and forth dialog between two Twitter users. This could be helpful to new Twitter users who find the Twitter interface confusing. In my tests, this app did not show direct messages or really old conversations.
- TwitHire–Microblogging service allows employers to post jobs. Freelancers and others looking for work can follow and will receive the job posting tweets. This is potentially a very useful service for freelancers.
- twInfluence–Discover the most influential Twitter users online through this analytical tool, or determine how influential your Twitter account is. Includes Twitseeker. (When I tested it, Twitseeker was not fully operational due to a change in Twitter’s policies.)
- Tweetie–Twitter app for mobile devices and the Mac. It allows you to share bookmarks, handle multiple Twitter accounts, search trends, and more. This looked like a fantastic app. Not having a Mac, I couldn’t test further.
- Twibs–This is basically a Twitter business directory. It could be very helpful to freelancers and those who hire them. If you know what type of business most of your clients are in use this to find and follow similar businesses.
- Twitter Alerts–Set up alerts to notify you when certain terms (like your name or your company name) are mentioned on Twitter. Freelancers can use this to help monitor their online reputation.
- TweetStats–Track a number of stats such as when do you make the most tweets and trending topics. It looks like parts of the site are still in development.
- TwitterCounter–Another application to track Twitter usage statistics. Find out who is the top user, how quickly you are gaining followers, and so on.
A Word About Security
Be careful about giving your social media passwords out to unknown applications. Several Twitter applications have been hacked in the past and the user’s data exposed. Always check the reviews of a social media application carefully before you entrust it with your personal data. Twitter support has some specific recommendations for users.
What Is Your Favorite Twitter App?
Do you use any of these Twitter apps? Which ones? What do you think of them?
Do you have a favorite Twitter app? Whether it’s on the list or not, why not share it here?
Leave your answers in the comments.
Related posts:
- Twitter For Freelancers (A Basic Overview)
- 5 Reasons Freelancers Can’t Ignore Twitter
- How to Get Started with Twitter Lists
- 15 Applications No Online Business Can Live Without
- Calling All Freelancers On Twitter
About the author: Laura Spencer is a freelance writer from North Central Texas with over 20 years of professional business writing experience. If you liked this post, then you may also enjoy Laura’s blog about her freelance writing experiences, WritingThoughts. Laura is also on Google+.
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43 Comments
Tom | Build That List
February 24th, 2010 at 8:41 amI really don’t use any Twitter apps, except the TweetMeme plugin for wordpress, but that isn’t really an app.I probably should keep up with technology more!
Ryan Cloke
February 24th, 2010 at 9:11 amI will check out Tweet Later. I often have much to share, but I don’t like spamming my twitter account. I have also developed a desktop alarm clock that tweets when I get up and what I get up to. It’s kind of a twitter app, but just fun really.
Maureen Mitchell
February 24th, 2010 at 9:23 amReally useful article – many thanks. I had heard of some of these apps but not all of them.
Eduardo
February 24th, 2010 at 9:37 amI don’t mind Tumblr http://www.tumblr.com/ shame not as many people use it as Twitter.
Jordan Walker
February 24th, 2010 at 9:56 amI use twitter integrated with CodeIgniter to seamlessly post tweets :)
Matt Keegan
February 24th, 2010 at 10:55 amI use bit.ly, su.pr, TweetDeck, and Retweet.it to help me succeed with Twitter. Several of the other applications you mentioned are also quite good while a few I am not familiar with. Guess I’ll have to do some checking out on the unknown ones soon!
jan geronimo
February 24th, 2010 at 10:59 amTweetmeme for the blog. Check. Hootsuite as my work horse of choice. Check. Let me add Nutshellmail: gives me digest of tweets of people I follow, new followers, the latest unfollowers. Notifications come via email, but once you open it there are tabs for reply, comment, follow, unfollow. As a bonus, it also gives you updates of your Facebook friends.
I set the schedule of updates during those times I can’t be online. Day job, you know.
I discovered it because I was trying to help a friend circumvent the office ban on Twitter. LOL. The funny part was my friend found another work around and did not use it. I like it so much I still use it to keep track of “traitors” who unfollow me. Ahehehe
Laura Spencer
February 24th, 2010 at 11:14 amThanks everyone for sharing your favorite Twitter apps!
This was a fun article to research and write since I got to play with and test most of these apps.
I look forward to reading what your favorite apps are.
Nicole Foster
February 24th, 2010 at 12:31 pmPersonally, my favorite is HootSuite. It’s easy to use and it has a bunch of cool features.
I need to try TwitHire, it seems very useful to a freelancer (:
Tanya
February 24th, 2010 at 12:48 pmReally great great apps. I m sure these tips are really helpful for all the twitter users. Thnx for sharing :)
Thursday Bram
February 24th, 2010 at 1:13 pmI switch between Cotweet and Tweetdeck, depending on exactly what I need to be doing. I think that once you’ve broken about 100 followers, it’s really important to find a tool that will help you manage the people you’re following, if only so that you can reduce the noise and find the gems.
Travis
February 24th, 2010 at 1:13 pmI’m going to have to check some of this stuff out, I’m strictly a TweetDeck user
Laura Spencer
February 24th, 2010 at 1:20 pmHi Nichole! I’m excited about TwitHire myself and will definitely be taking a closer look at it.
Thursday–Somehow I missed CoTweet on this list. I’ll have to check that one out.
Thanks for sharing your favorite Twitter tools.
Keith Plunkett
February 24th, 2010 at 1:34 pmI’ve just recently started using Seesmic Desktop and find it to be very helpful at keeping everything at a glance.
Amberly | Web Designer
February 24th, 2010 at 3:10 pmHuge collection! thanks for sharing.
Terri Zwierzynski
February 24th, 2010 at 3:42 pmI used to be a diehard TweetDeck fan (well, I still am!) but I just tried TweetMiner this week and I love it! I think these two plus HootSuite offer the most useful integrated platforms for both live and scheduled tweeting (when used wisely). I highly recommend trying all three to find the one that works best for you.
Laura Spencer
February 24th, 2010 at 6:29 pmThanks to everyone who left a link to their favorite Twitter app. Twitter is probably my favorite social media tool and I can’t wait to try out all these new apps.
I love the way the Freelance Folder community shares what works for them and what doesn’t.
Keep sharing your favorite Twitter Apps.
TvvitterBug
February 24th, 2010 at 8:45 pmNice article, but you left out TvvitterBug. The most important aspect of any Twitter App is its User Experience. That’s what make one app more fun and enjoyable to use over another. Not how many functions it can perform, especially when all that functionality is seldom used and just leads to unnecessary complicated and cumbersome operation.
TvvitterBug 1.3 – Twitter Social Networking at its finest – pays very close attention to User Experience (UX) content.
TvvitterBug eloquently combines simplicity with great functionality and entertaining animations to give you the most out of your Twitterverse. Release 1.3 brings together the culmination of all the features, capabilities, and functionality most sought after in an iPhone/iPod Twitter App, including:
o All of the Power you want, without the complexity you don’t.
o Five (TvvitterBug exclusive) user-customizable Tweet View tabs.
o Up to 5 user accounts easily accessible from any view through a simple drag-down menu.
o Persistent Tweets between launchings so you can view your tweets anytime.
o Double-Tap Instant Update to easily and quickly refresh your tweet views on demand.
o Built-in Photo capabilities to add photos directly to your tweets.
o Built-in Translation support using any of the state-of-the-art web translation engines you choose, such as Google Translate, Yahoo Babelfish, Babylon, or Promt Translator.
o Built-in Web Access to view tweet embedded pictures and other URLs.
o Editable User Profile, including setting a new Avatar picture.
o Support for both Fixed “official” and Editable “ad-hoc” Retweets – your choice.
o Landscape support for both Views and Keyboard.
o Automatic Language detection and display – great when you’re tweet surfing!
o Push Notification support using Boxcar and other compatible services.
o Automatic last-state restore on subsequent launchings.
o Future-proof Settings let’s you specify Translation and picture hosting services to use now and in the future.
o It also supports Lists, Spam reporting, deleting tweets, follow/unfollow, favorite/unfavorite, search in Message, From, and/or To in any timeline, Search and Trends timelines.
o The same Incredibly Simple and Lightning-Fast operation as the original version.
You can read more about TvvitterBug at http://www.tvvitterbug.com
TvvitterBug
February 24th, 2010 at 8:49 pmHi Laura,
If you want to check-out TvvitterBug for yourself, let me know an email I can send a free promo-code to you can use on the App Store.
TvvitterBug
TvvitterBug
February 24th, 2010 at 8:50 pmNice article!
TvvitterBug eloquently combines simplicity with great functionality and entertaining animations to give you the most out of your Twitterverse. Release 1.3 brings together the culmination of all the features, capabilities, and functionality most sought after in an iPhone/iPod Twitter App, including:
o All of the Power you want, without the complexity you don’t.
o Five (TvvitterBug exclusive) user-customizable Tweet View tabs.
o Up to 5 user accounts easily accessible from any view through a simple drag-down menu.
o Persistent Tweets between launchings so you can view your tweets anytime.
o Double-Tap Instant Update to easily and quickly refresh your tweet views on demand.
o Built-in Photo capabilities to add photos directly to your tweets.
o Built-in Translation support using any of the state-of-the-art web translation engines you choose, such as Google Translate, Yahoo Babelfish, Babylon, or Promt Translator.
o Built-in Web Access to view tweet embedded pictures and other URLs.
o Editable User Profile, including setting a new Avatar picture.
o Support for both Fixed “official” and Editable “ad-hoc” Retweets – your choice.
o Landscape support for both Views and Keyboard.
o Automatic Language detection and display – great when you’re tweet surfing!
o Push Notification support using Boxcar and other compatible services.
o Automatic last-state restore on subsequent launchings.
o Future-proof Settings let’s you specify Translation and picture hosting services to use now and in the future.
o It also supports Lists, Spam reporting, deleting tweets, follow/unfollow, favorite/unfavorite, search in Message, From, and/or To in any timeline, Search and Trends timelines.
o The same Incredibly Simple and Lightning-Fast operation as the original version.
You can read more about TvvitterBug at http://www.tvvitterbug.com
TvvitterBug
February 24th, 2010 at 9:16 pmTvvitterBug 1.3 – Twitter Social Networking at its finest. http://www.tvvitterbug.com
Stephen Webb
February 25th, 2010 at 5:06 amThis is certainly an interesting list of potentially productive Twitter applications, especially those centring around images and URL uploads, which are useful additions to the service offered by Twitter.
Twitter Alerts appears to be a very useful tool, alerting you when your company name is mentioned anywhere on the Twitter service. This could be very useful to keeping track of your popularity on Twitter and how much of an impact your account is making.
Additionally Twibs (a Twitter business directory) is certainly worth investing time into. This seems a very modern version of a business directory, and a good way to find potential clients on the Twitter service.
I’m sure there are additional Twitter services out there, which I expect will be suggested in the comments section of the article. With its ever expanding usage Twitter is becoming a must have for any business, so investing time into such products is well worth while.
Elina
February 25th, 2010 at 6:27 amI am using Tweetdeck (desktop application) that let me organise those I follow into columns (according to my pre-set lists). So I can choose the topic I want to read each time I have a look at Tweetdeck.
The OffCampus Student
February 26th, 2010 at 9:18 amSo much Twitterness. I fear I may become a Twitterholic. Argh. :)
Great post. I have used a few of those tools but might go through the list over the weekend.
I hope you don’t mind if I make a shameless plug of a blog I wrote yesterday. It’s on the reasons I have gradually neglected Facebook in lieu of Twitter.
http://offcampus-student.com/2010/02/25/where-facebook-ended-twitter-began/
Cheers, Paul
ajuas
February 27th, 2010 at 1:01 pmIts really helpful for freelancers. Thanks for sharing
Marketing and Management
March 5th, 2010 at 6:20 amI use bit.ly for posting my url. In the same manner twitter social bookmarking have many twitter application which could be useful to freelancer
Tom
May 13th, 2010 at 1:01 amI use Twitter and my favorite app is Tvider ,that lets you share not only images but also videos and audios on Twitter.
Tvider app can be used from your mobile phones or webcams and is available for Android, iPhone, BlackBerry, BREW, J2ME, Symbian phones. (http://tvider.com/mobile)
Enjoy a great Twitter social networking experience with Tvider.
Lezlie Fortes
March 7th, 2012 at 7:15 amΌπου καπνός και φωτιά, αλλά η φωτιά της Wohntrend Hellas δεν έχει καπνό!
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