Enhance-Your-Twitter-Experience-With-Power-Twitter
Power Twitter, a plugin for Firefox web browser that greatly enhances twitter.
Twitter pages now include:
- Photo sharing with embedded flickr photos
- Video sharing with embedded youtube videos
- Shared tinyurls are unwound so you know where they link to
- All links are mapped to their web page titles
- Additional user information is mapped to twitter users thanks to data conduits via 30 Boxes (e.g. flickr accounts, blog posts, del.icio.us links, and tons of other social media!)
Download the plugin from https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/9591 and restart your browser.
Relevant articles:
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/01/03/power-twitter-for-firefox-inline-media-integrated-search-and-a-lot-more/
http://mashable.com/2007/04/09/30boxes-power-twitter/
30 Alternative Tools To Twitter Search And Tracking Memes On Twitter
If you are as disappointed (annoyed) about twitter search as me, here are 30 alternatives to twitter search and to track memes on twitter.
Monitter lets you monitor the twitter world for a set of 3 keywords and watch what people are saying.
Tweet Grid you can create a Twitter Search Dashboard that updates in real time.
Hashtags : Real-time tracking of tagged tweets organized though hashtags (example: #twittertools)
Quotably : Type in any username and follow conversations in a threaded format
Twitter Search (Previously Summize): is a powerful twitter conversation tracker. Search for terms by user, language, attitude, tag, to and from user
Terraminds: allows you to search people or updates for specific words
Tw* Tool Tracker, A Twitter account tracking Twitter aficionados and tool developers
Tweet Scan : Find out who’s saying what, search for replies, words, whatever by user
Tweetburner allows you to “keep track of what happens to the links in tweets shared with you, by you, by your friends and every other twitterer.” The service shortens URLs and gives you statistics
Tweetmeme : Find out “what’s hot” on Twitter (Think Techmeme in Twitterland). Updates in real-time and looks spiffy! Shows some of the most popular memes on Twitter
TweetSpeak, TweetSpeak lets you listen to tweets
TweetVolume, Lets you compare words or phrases and see how often they have been mentioned on Twitter
Twemes, Twemes is another way to tag tweets
Twerp Scan, Twerp Scan helps you find people with high ratios that might be spammers on your follow list
Twist, This service creates charts that let you compare trends in Twitter. The charts can be embedded onto your blog.
Twistori, A social experiment tracking tweets using I love, hate, think, believe, feel and wish
Twitigg is listing of popular stories submitted on twitter.com sorted by number of submitters, updated constantly. (Like Digg it)
Twits Like Me, Returns a list of Twitterers (based on your tweets) who probably share your interests.
Twitstat offers real time Twitter analytics. You need to follow @twitstat for your tweets to be recorded. Includes the Tweitgeist of frequently twittered words
Twitter Blacklist, This website provides a list of known spammers of various kinds on Twitter
Twitter Quotient, Are you a Twitter hero or zero?
Twitter Troll : Find popular terms used on Twitter in real time
Twitterboard: Displays conversation analytics, links and feeds from Twitter
TwitterBuzz, Shows the most popular links posted on Twitter over the last day
Twitterment: allows you to search for specific terms to see who has written a post with that term. You can even see a graph that shows the hours of the day when that term is used most or compare terms
TwitterPoster, is a mashup created from Twitter that provides a visual representation of the degree of influence of Twitterers
Twittertale tracks the usage of naughty words in Twitter
Twitterverse shows the most popular words and phrases on Twitter
Twitturly is a service for tracking what URLs people are talking about as they talk about them on Twitter.
TwitterTroll is another Twitter search engine that searches tweets
12 Tools To Synchronize WordPress And Twitter
If you are a blogger and a tweeter, chances are that you are looking for ways to synchronize these two powerful platforms to use them effectively. There is more to synchronizing wordpress and twitter than sending a auto-tweet when you publish a post. Here are a selection of 12 free tools to sync twitter + wordpress.
Anwanore’s Widget allows you to post latest tweets into your blog.
RSS to Twitter will convert PHP script to feed RSS to Twitter.
Sidebar Widget allows you to create a highly customizable widget for the sidebar. This will work if your wordpress theme is widget-enabled.
SimpleTwitter enables you to easily add Twitter messages to wordpress theme.
The Twitter Updater automatically sends a Twitter status update to your Twitter account when you create, publish, or edit your WordPress post. You can specify the text for the updates, and also have the option to turn the auto update on/off for the different post actions in the admin panel.
Twitter Badge is the official javascript code that allows display of badges showing your tweets.
Twitter Feed posts your blog updates to your twitter account. You must login to twitterfeed using your OpenID, provide the URL for your blog RSS feed, and how often to post to Twitter.
Twitter for WordPress – Another plugin that creates a twitter widget.
Twitter Sharts – ‘Shart’ your twitter status anywhere within your wordpress blog posts or pages.
Twitter Tools – This plugin by Alex King allows you to archive your tweets, make blog posts out of them, send tweets from your sidebar and lots more.
TwitThis is an easy way for people to send Twitter messages about your blog post or website. When visitors to your website click on the TwitThis button or link, it takes the URL of the webpage and creates a shorter URL using TinyURL. Then visitors can send this shortened URL and a description of the web page to all of their friends on Twitter.
Twitt-Twoo allows you to update your Twitter status right from your blog’s sidebar. It is AJAX powered and allows for quick and easy status updates. Stylish and easy to customize from the options page.
30 Tools For Cross-platform microblogging And Social Media Sync
With the growing social networking platforms and microblogs, it is inevitable to signup for quite a few accounts. But we are most likely to use (effectively) only a few of them. The main reason being limited time. Here is my list of tools that help you to sync your social media profiles or enable cross-platform publishing.
Flotzam – A Mash Up of Twitter, Flickr, Facebook and blogs.
Twit4Live – A Messenger Plus! Live Script that adds twitter interaction to Windows Live Messenger
Twessenger — a Twitter add-in for Windows Live Messenger 8.1. Sets your personal message to your latest tweet!t
Twitter Sync Yahoo Messenger – Keeps your Yahoo! Messenger status and Twitter in synchronization. Update your Yahoo! Status to create a new tweet. Your new tweets update your Yahoo! status. Also keeps track of your twitter friends from the main messenger window with alerts, pop-ups + more
OutTwit – (Outlook + Twitter) Use Twitter from Outlook.
sociagami — allows you to manage your multiple social network statuses from one beautiful Windows application. sociagami currently supports Myspace, Facebook, and Twitter status
IdentiTwitch – A cross platform Twitter client written using Adobe Air. It combines your updates from Identi.ca and Twitter into a single timeline. Post to one or both services at the same time.
Posty – A microblogging application which allows updating twitter, jaiku, pownc, tumblr, friendfeed and identi.ca profiles with one click.
Twitter And Skype – Instructions on how to access your Twitter account in Skype.
Digsby – A multiprotocol IM client that lets you manage all your IM, email, and social network accounts from one easy-to-use application. For IM, it brings all your buddies into one merged contact list with support for AIM, MSN, Facebook Chat, Yahoo, ICQ, GTalk, and Jabber. For email, it offers notifications of new emails with message previews, as well as, the ability to perform actions such as “Mark as Read” and “Delete” right from the notification with support for Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo Mail, AOL/AIM Mail, POP, and IMAP. For social networks, it provides a newsfeed of events on the network and the ability to set status with support for Facebook, Twitter and MySpace
Brabblr is a mashup tool for microservices including Twitter
Flotzam is a download app where you can control and see what’s happening at Twitter, Facebook and Flickr networks.
Twitt.icio.us – import the link from a twitter timeline to your del.icio.us account
Twapper, Twapper is a mashup of 30Boxes and Twitter
Twitku – Twitter and jaiku mashup
Twittercal is a free service that connects your Twitter account to your Google Calendar.
Twitter Sync Facebook: will make your Facebook Status match your TwitterStatus
TwitterSoap is a mashup of Mobypicture and Twitter
Twittervision is a Twitter and Google Maps mashup showing the latest tweets and where the twitterer is located
Twitthis is an easy way for people to send Twitter messages about your blog post or website.
Twitzer is a Firefox extension which lets you post text longer than 140 characters on Twitter.
Nitwit, the cross-platform microblogging client for Twitter, Jaiku and other platforms including Jabber and IRC
TwitterBox – a Twitter client for Second Life.
Mugshot for Windows and Linux — show friends’ updates from your favorite services, including Twitter on your desktop and the web.
Post to Twitter from Vim for Vim users.
Yoono – Receive alerts, update your status or message your friends in your browser sidebar. No need to switch from one site to another or from your browser to a desktop app anymore. The perfect tool to become a twitter heavy user without spending hours on it. Yoono also integrates many other services : facebook, flickr, friendfeed, major IM services
Gwibber – an open source microblogging client for GNOME developed with Python and GTK. It supports Twitter, Jaiku, Identi.ca, Facebook, and Digg (For Linux)
Twitterlights The easiest way to highlight web snippets and Twitter them. i-Lighter+Twitter=Twitterlights
25 Power Tips To Build Brand Identity On Twitter
The results of your social media networking depends on what you want to achieve with the time you invest on social media. If you have specific objectives, chalk out a plan before you get started.
Try to answer (as candidly as possible) why, how, when…to use twitter or other social media?
Why do you want to use twitter?
What are your prime objectives?
How are you going to achieve those objectives?
When or how often are you going to tweet?
What are you going to tweet about?
Which twitter tool would help stay connected without wasting your time?
Here are tips on building your brand identity.
- Choose an intriguing username/niche username if you are beginning to build your brand identity through twitter. Some ideas to get you creative: SEOpro, Photojunkie etc. One cool tool you can use to check if your username is available in multiple social media is http://usernamecheck.com.
- Add you real name in your profile.
- With loads of spammers lurking twitterverse, you ought to look human and genuine. Add a genuine, powerful, captivating, intriguing yet simple one liner bio.
- Give a link to your website/blog where people can get more relevant information.
- Upload a professional or interesting twitter background under the “Design” tab with short bio.
- Demonstrate to your followers that you are the most informational person in your niche.
- Build credibility among followers that you can help them achieve their goals.
- Have a voluntary following.
- Communicate often and encourage two way communication.
- Understand your strengths and weaknesses and work on the weaker corners.
- Appreciate your followers when they share a tip, answer your question or retweet your tweet.
- Be dialectical but not combative.
- Don’t make your twitter stream look like your blog’s RSS feed.
- Don’t tweet about incidents that can be detrimental to your personal & brand reputation. You might want to use a personal (private) twitter a/c to log/share personal info.
- Give free informative tweetips and include direct links to tools and other useful resources.
- Occasionally, search on Google, Technorati or other search engine using niche keywords to find latest niche trends and interesting links and tweet about them.
- Use PollDaddy for Twitter to create a weekly (or monthly) summary (or “Twitter Roundup”) of your best tweets of the past week.
- Use discretion and forethought before using any apps. Friendfeed and twitter sync
- Favorite your own tips and informative tweets + relevant tips from other tweeters. Bookmark the page on social bookmarking sites. You can, ofcourse, post them on your blog.
- Prefix your twitter tips with # Use hashtags or tweetchannel.com to track your
- Get listed on twitter directories twellow.com, justtweetit.com, twitdir.com
- Pull your twitter stream into your blog and other social media profiles like friendfeed, facebook and myspace.
- Sync your ezinearticles account with twitter by adding your twitter account details in ezinearticle profile. When your new article is published on ezinearticles, an auto tweet will be sent out with a link to your article. Another advantage is, all ezine expert authors with twitter accounts in their profiles are listed out at http://twitter.ezinearticles.com. (I’m in top 50 :blush: )
- Don’t smell spammy and get your account suspended. Check out rules at http://twitterhelp.blogspot.com/2008/08/suspended-accounts.html
- Final Word: Think of the long term. Create a voluntary following and retain it with quality info. ‘Follow’ or ‘Unfollow’ takes only a split second and is usually impulse action.
Checkout your tweetcloud in 3D at http://tweet3d.com and your twitter rank at http://twitter.grader.com
Wish you good luck 
ShriNagesh
The 7 Step Twitter Strategy
Did you hear all the buzz about twitter?
Twitter is perhaps the most popular microblogging service. It allows you to post brief and frequent posts through web, IM, SMS from mobile or from an app. It is ultimate way to network with people around the world.
If you are a beginner or just starting out on twitter or want to change your twitter strategy, here is a reference guide which will walk your through each step and reveals a 7 step twitter strategy.
Grab it immediately and grow your business and network like never before.