Recap of Six Twitter Apps (Day One)

The more one gets into the Third Party applications for Twitter the more you will like Twitter, because the more useful Twitter becomes. As mentioned in my post this morning the first place to start is to get Mark Shaw's Twitter for Business E-Book. It's easy to follow and gives you like $50 Million worth of free advice just in his recommendations of people you should follow. Is that a deal or what? Well, you have to put everything to use, but... let's not get too technical. Heh!

So, Twitter pretty much kept me busy all day - just going through the following third party applications...learning how to use them, and using them, with pretty good effect for my first day putting it to use. We'll go over these one by one (not all 26...just a select few).

• TweepSearch.com - Enter a keyword and you'll get a load of people associated with that keyword, which requires further screening. I'm not seeing a direct link from the results to people's actual twitter page, but all you need to do is add their name to twitter.com/ - like twitter.com/bulletblocker so you can read what they're saying, message or follow them. Pretty easy.
  
  
• Twellow.com - Very useful, lets you add more information to your Twitter details - local to Twellow; and lets you do keyword searches and find people in specific geographical locations. Basically like a Twitter Yellow Pages.
  
  
• FriendOrFollow.com - This one - highly, highly recommended - you get to see who is following you but who you are not following; who you are following who is not following you and who is following each other. Confused? No need to be - this is important so you can give attention to those who are following you. You can only follow 2000 people on Twitter before you run into a 10% proportional margin that paces relative to how many are following you. It's a quality control mechanism to offset networking by the numbers. So, I'm going to spend some time right now to make sure we are following everyone following BulletBlocker!
  
  
• TweetStats.com - Okay, I like stats, but this looks to be useful for the more hard core Twitter users out there. I don't know what to do with it, so... for now, I'll do nothing.
  
  
• Twitalyzer.com - This is mainly an aggregator of how well you are measuring relative to others on Twitter, comparing among other things your signal to noise ratio (outward informative links vs. "my cat just took me for a walk" type posts, a measure of generosity (retweeting), etc. Useful, but not essential.
  
  
• TweetDeck.com - This is an awesome Twitter management tool - so good that it deserves a video...voila - video - below!
  

So, that's going to be about it for... today. Why? Because we're going to do some more, tomorrow! And... the day after that. Is it useful? Yes, if it wasn't I would not be doing it. I'll be adding some of my own ideas in this, too. Everyone have a good day and remember - if you don't stay out of trouble... you will be in trouble.