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Top Twitter Tools For Business

Twitter Tools to Streamline, Manage and Grow Your Account

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TweetAdder: TweetAdder is a Twitter management tool, created to automate the building of followers and manage incoming/outgoing direct messages. TweetAdder is an inexpensive and smooth-working Twitter management tool. It can easily add 50-150 new followers to your account every day. And it is done without upsetting other users.

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HootSuite: With this fantastic tool, you can manage multiple social networks including:

  • Twitter
  • Facebook
  • LinkedIn
  • WordPress
  • MySpace
  • FourSquare

Schedule posts and tweets, review mentions, direct messages and see click-through stats. The statistic summary in Hootsuite is similar to Google Analytics, but with less details. It’s a free download and offers an amazing set of tools to manage your account.

TwitPic: TwitPic turns a text only microblog into a photo sharing service. Simply link your account with Twitter, upload your photo and you'll get a shortened url to paste into your tweet. Works easily, and it's worth having a look.

Technorati: Billed as the worlds largest, Technorati rates your blog based on a number of criteria, and gives you an authority ranking – on a scale of 1-1000. Post useful, well read and commented blog posts and you'll grow. Can be a challenge to get listed, but it's worth it.

Klout: Specifically for Twitter, Klout measures a huge range of criteria, and creates a Klout Score to measure your influence via your witter account. Worth listing, as it takes just a few minutes and helps create credibility of your microblog.

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