subject: Grow Your Twitter Presence With Twitter Applications [print this page] If you use Twitter on a regular basis, the makes sense to utilize Twitter applications, as they add a lot of functionality to the Twitter experience. They can help you do a variety of things, with one example being to automatically notify your Twitter followers whenever you update your blog or website. Some twitter applications work from your computer's desktop, others work from online websites, and others work from cell phones. The vast majority of them are free to use, though some of them must be purchased. The paid for ones are generally not all that expensive anyway, but you can try them out for free as they tend to offer free 7 day trials.
These Twitter applications are considered to be the best available right now, so be sure to check them out for yourself...
Tweet Later - This application is ideal for people who are unable to use Twitter daily due to other commitments. Tweet Later allows you to write a weeks worth of tweets in one go, but rather sending them all at once, you can instead pre-schedule them to be sent at whatever future dates and times you want.
Twitter Alerts - This app sends you a notification whenever someone sends a tweet that includes a keyword term that you are interested in. Lots of people use it to keep track of their online reputation, by asking to be notified whenever their name, or their company's name, is mentioned in a tweet.
Twitpoll - Conducting any kind of market research is made easy with this application. You simply create a poll or survey and then tweet it to all of your followers. At the end of the time period that you specify, you get all of the results sent to you.
Tweet2Tweet - You can use Tweet2Tweet to look back at what tweets another two Twitter users have exchanged in the past. Why would you want to do that? Because you can tap into the information and advice that experts in your field share with each other.
Tweetmeme - Want to know who is talking about and mentioning your website or blog in their tweets? Well, that is exactly what this Twitter application can tell you. You can also use it to let your followers know when you add a new page to your site, or post to your blog.
Twitpic - Sharing pictures on Twitter could not be easier. Link up your accounts on Twitter and TwitPic, and whenever you upload a picture on the latter it will be tweeted to all of your followers.
