subject: How To Join Twitter And Use Twitter Tools [print this page] It is not difficult to join Twitter, but Twitter tools are not so easy to find or to use. In fact there is plenty of advice online for those that are interested in joining Twitter, particularly for those that want to avoid making mistakes. What is not so easy is using Twitter to its maximum advantage, and for that you have to start by learning about the tools that the twitter website itself offers you.
Once you knw whow to use these, there a many more Twitter tools that you can use to make life easier, such as those that enable you to attract the right kind of followers, and to check out that the people you are following are following you back. It is possible to achieve this manually by checking the pages of those that should be following you or trying to identify the thumbnails on your page, but it is quicker if a Twitter tool does it for you.
Other tools involve the integration of Twitter with other social networking applications, such as Facebook and YouTube, and methods of reducing the URLs that you publish in your tweets to a more manageable size. It is certainly true that Twitter does this automatically but you have no control over the appearance of the visible URL.
You might wonder why such tools are necessary and why you should even carry these tasks out? If all you use Twitter for is to make and receive tweets and to communicate with your friends and family several times a day, then it is true that you don't need any tools: you can get by just using Twitter for its main application - tweeting and passing messages with that 140 character limit. However, some people use it as a marketing tool, while still others want to find out what is happening in the wide twittering world, outside the limited scope of their own followers.
When you join Twitter for the first time you will likely start off with a few tweets just to get started and get used to using the network. You will then start to try out some of the tools and services available on the site, such as trending, lists and retweets. Once you have mastered these, you will be ready for more advanced Twitter tools such as those above, or even more advanced trend analysis and how to automate your Tweets.
For example, there are tools that enable you to write out several tweets and then have them automatically submitted at specified times and dates. Sometimes Twitter is over-subscribed and you can't login. There are tools available that enable you to make your tweet and then have it published when the application is free again.
It is very easy to join Twitter and to get started using it, and if you like what you see, there are a large number of Twitter tools online for you use to simplify specific purposes and tasks. Some run independently while others can operate as Wordpress plugins so that you can integrate your blog with your Twitter account.
Whatever Twitter tools you use, they are certain to help you make the best use of it, so go ahead and join Twitter and make the best possible use you can of this fabulous social networking application.
