5 of the Best Twitter Apps You Should Know About

5 of the Best Twitter Apps I Can’t Live Without

Categories: Social Media
Written By: Koka Sexton

After my initial addiction to Twitter, I started becoming fascinated by the growing amount of Twitter applications that were being developed. One of the suggestions I had made about how Twitter can make money was that they charge a fee for validated API applications. I don’t know if they started charging but the recent ‘validation’ of Twitter applications makes me feel much better about using services that I have to identify my credentials through.

Between getting my breaking news updates and talking to friends, Twitter has become a staple in my life. I want to share some of the best Twitter applications that I use on a regular basis.

TwitterFon
TwitterFon is a simple, clean, easy to use, and is a superfast Twitter client for your iPhone and iPod Touch.

TwitterFon is focused on ease of use and 80% of your daily Twitter tasks, such as see your friends/replies/messages timeline, see favorites, and send/reply a tweet. You can also search tweets, get twitter trends, upload photos to twitpic.com, and update your location information.

TwitterFon is my primary iPhone Twitter application.

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Monitter

Monitter is one of my favorite voyeuristic Twitter applications. So simple that a 5 yr old can use it and yet powerful enough to show me who is talking about any topic anywhere in the world. I use Monitter to see what is being said in my city by specifying the distance of search and I open it up for every conversation when I look for information about news topics or when i want to see what is being said about the company I work for.

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Twirl

I have a few different Twitter profiles. Instead of signing into each one individually online, I use Twhirl by Seesmic as a desktop application that can bring up all of the profiles in their own little windows. twhirl is a desktop client for the Twitter microblogging service. Most of the features available on the Twitter website are accessible through twhirl, too.

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Twitter Karma

Keeping an eye on your Twitter Karma is a must for anyone that takes Twitter seriously. Twitter Karma is another very simple site that really hasn’t changed much since I first started using it over a year ago. The interface is easy to use and can perform some basic functions.

See everyone you are following and who follows you. More importantly see who you are following that is not following you back or people that follow you and you have not started tracking their updates. With just these few slices of visibility you can select individuals or groups that you can bulk follow or unfollow. This lets you keep a good Twitter follow ratio.

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Last but not least by far is Twitter Feed.

Twitter feed serves a very simple task. Any RSS feed can be ported into a Twitter stream. An example of this is any new posts to my blog (like this one) will automatically be added to Twitter. This saves me from having to log into Twiter and post the link myself. sure that’s a very simple process but when you look at other Twitter profiles that update hourly with links or other information you can see where the automation becomes very helpful. Some examples are the Mayor of Concord and HyperLocal Edge Twitter profiles.

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