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Aug 9, 2009
If you’re on Twitter, you’ve probably browsed around the myriad of tools out there, from third-party developers and Twitter itself, that are meant to help you manage your profile. There’s apps and services for everything you can imagine – finding followers, auto-managing followers, creating backgrounds, promoting yourself, advertising, analytics, spam detectors, widgets…you get the picture.
Twitter has done a nice job of keeping these organized on its Twitter Fan Wiki. In true social networking spirit, the wiki allows anyone to post a link to any apps, features or tools that Twitter users might find useful, keeping the content public and user generated.
The list can be quite overwhelming. To help make it easier, here’s a few of our favorites:
Tweeptracker. A simple follow management tool. Just log in and you can see three things – who follows you that you don’t follow back, who’s a friend and a follower and who you are following who is not following back. It’s a great tool for taking a closer look at who you need to drop and who you should start following, without relying on an automated follow back program.
Twitterfeed. Have a blog feed? Twitterfeed allows you to handpick RSS feeds to feed into your Twitter stream. The best thing about it is that you don’t have to rely on keywords, only feeds that you trust that will add quality content to your page.
Tweepular. One of our favorites. It’s a robust follower management tool that provides all the information that you need in one place. Once you log in, you’ll see tabs breaking down your Twitterverse – mutual friends and those following you that you’re not following and vice versa. But they take it a step further, breaking down each individual Twitter profile. You can follow or stop following someone right from the page. The best feature is that it allows you to see when people last updated their pages, allowing you to eliminate those who aren’t active.
GeoFollow. This one allows you to add yourself based on location and find other Twitterers in your area. It’s not the most user-friendly interface, but is nice for finding locals.
BuffaloTweets. Same concept as GeoFollow, only particular to the Buffalo area. This directory includes those within a 100 mile radius of Buffalo.
A lot of the services are still in beta phase, which means they're still being tested and may have some bugs. It's important to just stay patient and really don' t rely on these tools to manage your account. And these 5 are just the very beginning of what's other there. If you discover another tool that you really like, tell us about it! And don't forget to follow us at twitter.com/mellonco.