10 Twitter Applications For Small Businesses
Today we have a special treat from outside of the mywebtronics.com family. Rudo Malequin works as the Internet Marketing Executive for Fortepromo which creates customized promotional products for startups that help them to promote their brand in market. He understands how to leverage social media platforms, such as twitter, for small businesses.
Twitter has seen a staggering growth rate of more than 1000% in 2009 and more and more people are joining twitter everyday. In this post I have included ten twitter tools useful for small business owners which would help in monitoring the conversations of their target audience and spying on their competitor’s activity.
TweetBeep: – TweetBeep is Twitter alert service similar to Google Alerts. You can get tweet alerts for keywords you want every hour in your email and keep track of users who are talking about you or your competitor’s products, services and a lot more. You can get 10 alerts per month by signing up for a free account.
Qwitter: – Qwitter is a free service which would send you an email alert when somebody un-follows you and last tweet you made after which the person un-follows you. This service would help you to understand about the nature of tweets which your follower likes or dislikes.
Bit.ly: – One of the popular twitter activities is to share links. Bit.ly is a great url shortening service which would help you to measure the real time performance of your links. You can track the number of clicks your link get in 24 hours, past week and past month, traffic sources – email, twitter or IM , Location from where you are getting traffic and a lot more.
Socialoomph: Earlier known as Tweetlater, Socialoomph would help you to schedule your tweets and publish your tweets as you have planned. The other features of Socialoomph are tracking tweets that contain your keywords, sending automatic DM to new followers, automatically unfollow users who unfollow you etc.
TwitterFeed: – Twitterfeed is another free service which would alert your followers by tweeting about your new blog posts.
CoTweet:- CoTweet is currently in Beta and currently free to use. CoTweet is a great tool to manage your corporate accounts on twitter. You can manage up to six twitter accounts from your single CoTweet account. You can assign tweets to your colleagues for Followups, Monitor your keywords and trends, schedule tweeting, posting updates from multiple account at same time and a lot more all from your single CoTweet account.
SpreadTweet: – SpreadTweet is free application which will help you to tweet from an excel spreadsheet. You can use all twitter features like receiving and sending DMs, search on twitter, viewing your timeline all from an excel spreadsheet and at the top of this you can save you excel sheet for records on your hard disk or access offline.
Twinbox: – If you use Microsoft outlook most of the time then Twinbox is a great tool for you. Twinbox is fully functional twitter client which you can integrate with your Microsoft outlook and is completely free.
Nearby Tweets: – You can monitor the tweets related to your products from people of your location with the help of Nearby Tweets. The tool is right now in Beta Phase so you need to request for private access to use other features of tool like Automatic Follow people within Nearby tweets, set a default search locations etc.
GroupTweet: – GroupTweet is another great service which helps you to send your message only to a group of persons by not making it public. You can use this service to communicate with your clients or for your private customers where you want to send confidential Information
i loved GroupTweet, i am sure this add-on will help me to increase my traffic more as i will send more and more messages about my update on blog to my friends so that they may visit and have a look at it
I was very happy with Twitfeed but for the last month or so they are not posting my blog posts on my Twitter profile like they used to.
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are those twitter applications be added to blogger theme, since more are compatible with wordpress and less with XML blogger themes.
Having celebs start using Twitter was a godsend for them. I hadn’t heard about Qwitter (love the name). That sounds very useful, especially if you track your followers closely and only follow those following you.
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Really it is a very nice way for internet marketing and I am also using it, really it is very great way for marketing & thanks for sharing such type of great & very interesting post please keep sharing these type of informative posts regularly.
Bit.ly is a very useful tool. Without it I wouldn’t be able to track where a lot of my traffic come from. I have also checked out Nerby Tweets in the past. I wasn’t impressed because at the time there weren’t that many tweets in my area, but maybe I should check it out again.
this is great to know about them and i have not heard of those before ,i will definitely go for all one by one.thanks!
twitter is a good service to promote our site/blog for now i’m using tweefeed and bit.ly
it’s big news for me there is actually 10 twitter application, i thought just 4-5 application.
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Really it is very nice way for marketing of a small business with minimum efforts & twitter is really a place where we will make any post related to our business.
SocialOomph has got to be one of the best on the list as far as an all-in-one but i’ve recently been turned on to tweetspinner which is doing some real interesting follow/unfollow stuff you wouldn’t believe.
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I use twitterfeed and I LOVE it! I have recommended it to a few people, all of whom have said good things about it.
I would also add Seesmic Desktop to this list. I switched over to Seesmic and it changed the way I use twitter to communicate.
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Great blog post, it’s nice to see all the different Twitter applications in one place with a clear description of what each one can do.
I don’t think small businesses realise that managing their Twitter can be made much more simpler.
Think I might give SpreadTweet and Twinbox ago!
This is a decent list of twitter tools. I’ve used them all but Cotweet and will test it out today.
I just wrote a post on my 5 Tips for Optimizing your Twitter Profile.
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nice list of twitter tools. I’ve used them all. Anyone know of tools to tracks RT for Giveaways ?
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awesome list of twitter tools. Need to add more to this list.
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I am also using it, really it is very great way for marketing & thanks for sharing such type of great information.
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wow, I was looking for something exactly like the qwitter.. I just wanted to track the users who unfollow our alert services via twitter and identify the reason for their leaving.. This post has finally quenched the thirst. Thanks a trillion… qwitter here i come
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sweet this is very nice..twitter is one of the best! thanks for posting this article.love it!;D
Hootsuite does about four of these things in one. I think it’s the starting tool for a small business using Twitter and other social media.
Grouptweet is really good. Its everything everyone wants. Simply superb.
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