10 Tools to Create an Amazing Twitter Presence for You
The power of developing your own personal brand is something that I found to gain more and more importance on Twitter. Using your personal voice as a strong messenger of thoughts, great content and a powerful channel to get feedback and engage with others has been very useful for me.
It has allowed me to build a very targeted Twitter following around my account and helped me grow my business solely through Twitter. Of course, Twitter alone can easily become very time-consuming. So here are my top 10 Twitter tools to build an amazing brand around your Twitter account without spending hours and hours on Twitter, yet still remaining a genuine personality.
Buffer – Easily Tweet At Optimal Times
One of the most important component to a great Twitter performance I found is to Tweet great content on a regular basis. Here is where Buffer is most useful for me. Every morning I can fill up my Buffer with a few Tweets or so and the App posts them for me at optimal times over the day.
The great thing here is that you can add Tweets to your Buffer from any website you are reading with one of the browser extensions. Whenever I like an article I can give it a click on the Buffer icon and add it as a Tweet.
Top Tip: With every Tweet you send via Buffer you will get detailed analytics about how many clicks, retweets and reach.
Smartr – A Smarter Way To Read Tweets
Smartr is one of the most beautifully designed Apps I have come across. It pulls in news from your Twitter feed and displays it in a new and much easier way to consume. And it also filters out any spam for you, so you are presented with top news from your stream only.
What I like a lot about Smartr is that you can easily read with it via an iPhone app, browser, or soon desktop App. All Tweets are displayed with pictures and preview so you can save time on whether a post will be interesting for you or not.
Top Tip: Smartr is also a community in itself and you can follow others that are interested in the same topics right inside the App.
Formulists – Create Twitter Lists More Efficiently
Building my Twitter lists has been one of the most powerful aspects to continue growing my network organically. However it is often a very time-consuming process and I forget about putting great new acquaintances into lists.
With Formulists you can easily set up certain triggers that will put others into the right list you have chosen. So if someone retweets, mentions or follows you, you can have them in the right list of your network without doing anything.
Top Tip: A great advantage with Formulists is that it automatically keeps a tab of the most engaged people in your network open for you.
Twylah – Your Personal Twitter Brand Page
An App that certainly can’t be missed here is Twylah. The App automatically turns all your Tweets into a beautiful brand page, filled with categories and rich media display. It makes is very easy for your followers to understand what you are Tweeting about the most and whether you are a good fit to follow them.
I found this to be a great way to use in certain situations where a glance over my past Tweets isn’t really useful. You can try putting your Twylah page in your Twitter bio, in your email signature or on your blog. It is a great way to get more out of your Tweeting efforts.
Top Tip: All of your Tweets are also indexed in Google via Twylah, which is a great way to get more SEO juice out of Twitter for you.
Twimbow – Your Colourful Twitter Dashboard
Twimbow is taking a completely new approach to a Twitter dashboard. Instead of seeing one monotonous stream of Tweets, the App allows you to add colours to them. You can colourcode @replies, retweets or simply hashtags.
I found Twimbow to be a great way to stay on top of your Twitter feed. After a few days, you are starting to recognise the colours and you can handle your stream a lot easier. Twimbow is one of those Apps that you just have to try.
Top Tip: You can add pre-set hashtags to your Tweets to colourcode them for other Twimbow users, which I found to be a great way to connect with the Twimbow community.
TweetChat – Participate More Seamlessly In Twitter Chats
If you haven’t come across Twitter Chats, this might be a great way to get started. They are online events, usually lasting about one hour and discussing a particular topic. There are Twitter chats for web design, blogging tips, Social Media and more. Here is a great list of over 400 Twitter chats.
Participating in a Twitter chat is highly facilitated with TweetChat. It is a dashboard that allows you to set a pre-fix of a hashtag so you don’t have re-enter it for every new Tweet. It also has a realtime function and updates seamlessly throughout the time of the chat going on.
Top Tip: A great feature of TweetChat is that you can block any user that might be cluttering or overtweeting during the chat.
Leonhard Widrich
I'm a Social Media enthusiast with an extra large sized addiction to Twitter. I'm always on the lookout for the best Twitter tips and tools to share. Hit me up on Twitter @Leowid if you need anything, I will be quick in responding and helping you out.
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josue
September 26, 2011 at 9:29 pm
very, very nice Wow thnk :)
Sri Lanka Cricket boy
February 3, 2012 at 7:59 pm
Yes this is very usefull and great tools
Erik
September 26, 2011 at 10:40 pm
Thanks for the post. Checking out Buffer right now. Especially nice cause i dont have alot of time to tweet, so now when i do i can actually make it worth while.
Sony Arouje
September 27, 2011 at 4:39 pm
thanks for the great post. it’s very informative
temo
September 27, 2011 at 7:03 pm
Hi Leo,
Thanks for mentioning Smartr in this awesome post! :)
Beben Koben
September 28, 2011 at 5:28 pm
increased my knowledge again..thanks^^
Manuel Garcia
September 29, 2011 at 12:35 pm
Thanks to this knowledgeable post :)
Abcmoteur
September 29, 2011 at 7:25 pm
Amazing list, many thanks!
Ileane
October 4, 2011 at 12:46 am
Hi Leo! Great to see you guest posting here. I like your tips!
Esmeralda
November 5, 2011 at 12:13 am
Congratulations! Very useful tools! Thanks to sharing :)
Best Graphic News
November 10, 2011 at 8:10 am
Thanks goog post.
Love
November 22, 2011 at 5:47 am
Yeah great awesome tips
Crystal
November 25, 2011 at 10:16 am
Thanks for the great post,it’s huge help!
Catherine
November 28, 2011 at 6:43 pm
Thanks for the post.. and if I may add, wrote about tweepi.com, its great tools too and by using it, I can easily gain followers. I wrote about it in my blog.. :)
Patsy Leonard
December 9, 2011 at 12:45 pm
Great post. I’m using some of them right now. Thank you!
tamar
December 21, 2011 at 3:34 pm
great tools and post! you’re doing an amazing job.. if i may add i would like to suggest itweetlive which is a management and engagement platform for twitter community managers. This tool allows you to group your searches and bulk reply in a personalized way that will help you build your community. it’s totally free of charge. check it out
Isaac Young
January 8, 2012 at 6:24 pm
My favorite part about this article is the Top Tip – a quick pointer on how to get a little extra value out of the application. Great job Leo!
I have another Top Tip: Tweetlr – http://techoctave.com/tweetlr. Tweetlr is a Twitter CRM that helps you find targeted and relevant friends. Tweetlr is about building a targeted audience that makes sense for you. I’ve just been amazed at the quality of people I meet now who are actually interested in the things that interest my team and I.
Everyone wants you to keep “busy” with 3rd-party websites and managing analytics – things that take you away from your audience. Twitter isn’t made for that. Twitter was never made for that. Twitter is about people interacting with people. I needed a tool that would help me find the right people. Tweetlr did just that and I highly recommend it!
Sebastian Latina
January 16, 2012 at 6:30 am
Awesome information. I am in the process of writing a simple 3 part series on the basics of Twitter and will include, and of course, reference this article. Great blogging!
Juliet Fay
January 18, 2012 at 11:21 am
Excellent post with clear descriptions of the various tools. Thanks for researching and posting. This will help many of my clients too.
Christian Bolz
January 19, 2012 at 6:10 am
Great work! Will be a great improvement in my dailyvwork with twitter.
Chantal
January 31, 2012 at 5:06 pm
Great post! this is very helpful in creating a twitter presence. You can also try itweetlive which is a free twitter tool for personalized engagement with masses of people (you target the relevant people for your searches offcourse). Features AB testing so you can see which tweets generated the most conversation/mentions and easily identify which campaigns are working for you. Searches include geo-location as well as Klout Sort. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Yu4JpV5sHo
Viral Technologies
February 15, 2012 at 11:41 pm
Thanks for the post. There are so many Twitter tools out there so its nice when someone who has tried them all can help to weed out the good from the bad : ) Would you go with Buffer over Hootsuite? They seem to do similar things except that you said there was a miniature community within Buffer.
FredStar
February 18, 2012 at 7:19 am
Totally this is a dope post, thanks for sharing your knowledge. Greatly appreciated.. WassupFREd!!!!!
Amit Sharma
February 29, 2012 at 7:24 am
Thanks for great compilation, really like the manage filter tool, unfollowed a huge number of inactive Twitter followers..
At first was using Untweeps.com, good service though, but not better than Manage Filters.
Surlz
March 1, 2012 at 5:25 pm
I like shortening links for twitter with http://s-urlz.com, it also allows geographic statistics of used links.