As with any social media platform using Twitter for marketing your business can become very time consuming and over whelming if you don’t go about it the right way.  That’s why knowing what tools and apps are available is key to staying sane and being effective with your time while doing social media marketing.

Here is a list of of some helpful tools and apps when using Twitter as a social media marketing tool.

Socialoomph.com(formerly known as Tweetlater)  This is a free tool that will allow you to send automated messages to your new followers, automatically follow new followers, and automatically unfollow those who don’t follow you back.  There is also a professional version with alot more features you may want to check out including Facebook features.

Twellow.com This is like the yellow pages for Twitter.  You can look for people to follow based on keywords and categories and you should also register yourself on here to make your profile found easier.

Wefollow.com This is a great free site to find leaders in your industry and othe people to connect with that you should be following.

TweetDeck.com This awesome tool is also free and is a great way to manage all of your Twitter followers from one dashboard, connect with your Facebook wall, search for certain content on Twitter, and follow certain people’s posts on Twitter(this is great for thinning out the noise to only see who you want to see)

Twitpic.com This tool allows you to share photos on Twitter and you can also use it straight from your phone by using the email id you receive when you sign up!  This is an awesome tool to use to make your posts alot more personal!  Everybody loves pictures!

Twittercounter.com Great for tracking statistics on Twitter profiles!

Hashtags.org You can find information pertaining to tags, users, and trends all related to how people use hashtags on Twitter.

Hootesuite.com Schedule your tweets, manage several Twitter and Facebook accounts all from one dashboard, track statistics, manage your direct messages, allow your team to work from your dashboard, and tons more!

Search.twitter.com Find tweets on any topic and also find out who is tweeting about topics you are interested in.

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To Your Success!

Kate Wilber

The Marketing Momma