Don’t jump, yet.

August 17 2009

Consider becoming a Twitter quitter. You wouldn’t be alone, but don’t pull the trigger until you’ve read this blog post. The true value of Twitter might be hidden from plain view. Luckily you have us to keep you in the loop.
Everybody Knows About The Bird
Before you jump off the bandwagon, consider tinkering with a few Twitter-based applications. These tools help leverage the functionality of Twitter in a variety of ways. We found five must-have Twitter apps that deserve your attention. If you’re still not convinced, become a Twitter quitter. Maybe no one will notice.

Twtpoll
Twtpoll is a feedback tool that helps you to create and distribute polls/surveys on Twitter, Facebook, FriendFeed or on any other social media site. More…

CoTweet
CoTweet is how “business” does Twitter. Their words, not ours. CoTweet allows multiple people to communicate through corporate Twitter accounts and stay in sync while doing so, which is nice. No dropped balls, no stepping on each other’s toes. Think of it as social CRM — with an emphasis on the “social”. More…

TweetStats
Graph your Twitter Stats including, Tweets per hour, Tweets per month, Tweet timeline, Reply statistics. The app is in use by over 100,000 Twitter-folk, so they are doing something right. We graph ours and find visual trends easier to swallow. More…

Twendz
Twendz uses the power of Twitter search for data mining, highlighting conversation themes and sentiment of the tweets that talk about topics you are interested in. As the conversation changes, so does twendz by evaluating up to 70 tweets at a time. When new tweets are posted, the app is updated. We wouldn’t get too married to this “must-have” app that could be best used to jump into a conversation mid-stream. More…

Twitterfeed
Feed your blog to Twitter. It’s that easy. More…

Good luck in your quest to join the twitterati.

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