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Twitter: my tools

Definitely many conversations are moving towards twitter land (10 Downing Street moving there). Twitter is extensible, and many developers are creating tools around the simple data being exported for a variety of unique applications.

Now, if the twitter usage is for personal, corporate use, or to manage the brand of a client, then you’ll need certain tools to find and engage discussions.

So here are the tools that you’ll need to improve your twitter exploration / usage:

1. Client: To stay up to date minute per minute, you are better of to use a client instead of web-browser. Here are two things that I use: Twhirl which is the most popular client that uses adobe AIR technology AND Instant Messenger (Twitter as a friend). And if you are iPhone user: then i totally recommend "mobile twitter" app.
2. Search: Use Tweetscan to see who’s talking about you, your brand, or even a topic you’re interested in.
3. Tracking: Use Tweetburner to track what happens with the links you share on Twitter.
4. Conversations: Quotably is the top ‘conversation’ tracker, it threads together the discussions that members are having by looking at the replies, interesting to see how conversations spiral into different threads.
5. Aggregation: Friendfeed puts all of our RSS content onto one page, making it easy to see from one glance (rather than going to different properties) and you can even reply from friendfeed to different tools. It’s smarter to organize around people, rather than tools.
6. Location Based: If you live in a particular area, and want to parse out a specific location, this Twitterlocal filter finds tweets based upon a users profile location. If you’ve a local business, this could become useful.
7. Alerts: Often, people will blog about the conversations that happen in twitter, the conversation shifts back to blogs. As a result, I setup Google Alerts for the phrase @mrayyan, I see it appear 3-5 times a week on blogs. Thanks Andrew for the reminder in the comments.

Hope this helps. If you use something else, please let me know.

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