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What are the best Twitter Apps and Gadgets?
A discussion for everyone to chime in with their favourite Twitter app, whether it be PC, Mobile/cellphone or anything else.
To get the ball rolling I love www.TweetDeck.com , simple desktop application that allows you to handle all your Tweets, Twitter friends, private messages and replies, break them down into separate groups and the URL shortener is a god send.
So what else is great out there?
To get the ball rolling I love www.TweetDeck.com , simple desktop application that allows you to handle all your Tweets, Twitter friends, private messages and replies, break them down into separate groups and the URL shortener is a god send.
So what else is great out there?
Tags: app, apps, desktop, gadget, mobile, tweet, tweetdeck, twit, twitter
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Permalink Reply by JonClarke on -
Google's Android Phone the G1, sold in the UK by T-Mobile, but widely available in the US and worldwide has a great many free apps to download. The best one I've tried for Twitter is Twitroid. It also has a cool photo Twitterpic app that can stamp the location of the picture with a Google map ref link or using the phone's GPS find other Twitdroid users around you. A truely mobile Twitter app.
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Permalink Reply by Dan Pereira on -
Twhirl (twhirl.org) is a nice clean alternative to Tweetdeck.
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Permalink Reply by Paul Skinner on -
I agree, Twhirl is nice, especially as I have 3 twitter accounts to watch. However, I also like the Facebook interface in TweetDeck, but that only allows one account at a time. Any suggestions?
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Permalink Reply by JonClarke on
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I've not used the Facebook interface, so sorry, not much help, but perhaps someone else here can help
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Permalink Reply by JonClarke on
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Just added myself to the http://wefollow.com twitter directory under: #blogger #advertising #media
A nice site that shows lists by keyword of top Twitterers,
103rd in Advertising - only a few behind some other Media Starz here
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Permalink Reply by JonClarke on
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More great Twitter related sites:
www.Twitpic.com - Upload your photos on the fly to Twitter and add some short commentary.
www.TweepSearch.com - great beta Twitter Search site to find people etc on Twitter, works very well.
www.Twhirl.org - a desktop client for social software such as Twitter, Friendfeed, identi.ca, or seesmic, does a lot the other sites to or connects to them. Fave thing is the ability to open and maintain multiple accounts at one time.
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Permalink Reply by JonClarke on
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Here's a whole bunch more:
The Twitter Toolbar - Free downloable toolbar, versions for Firefox & Internet Explorer
Twitoria - Twitoria finds your friends that haven't tweeted in a long time so you can give them the boot!
Monitter - a location based twitter monitor, it lets you "monitter" the twitter world for a set of keywords and watch what people are saying. Useful for seeing if anyone is talking about you or your business.
BubbleTweet - A unique application lets you post a short video message that pops up on your Twitter profile in a bubble shaped player.
Twitter Gallery - Free background designs for your Twitter profile page
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Permalink Reply by JonClarke on
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And a few more today:
Twit This - TwitThis is an easy way for people to send Twitter messages about your blog post or website. When visitors to your website click on the TwitThis button or link, it takes the URL of the webpage and creates a shorter URL using our own URL shortener! Then visitors can send this shortened URL and a description of the web page to all of their friends on Twitter.
StockTwits - Eavesdrop on what traders and investors are talking about RIGHT NOW or contribute to the conversation and build your reputation and following as a savvy market wizard.
Tweepler - Tweepler Is an easy, more enjoyable way of processing your New Twitter Followers. View a list of New Followers and classify them in one of two "Buckets" Follow (meaning you wish to follow them back) and Ignore (meaning you don't wish to follow them and want to archive them out of the way, reducing clutter).
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Permalink Reply by JonClarke on
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www.twitwall.com - With TwitWall, you can embed your favorite videos and widgets, upload your photos, mp3 music or podcasts, - you name it.
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Permalink Reply by JonClarke on
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Hellotext - We post your status update from web, mobile, sms, email, 3rd party applications, API to more than 35 social network
TwitterFox - Icon on your Firefox staus bar, open it to reveal latest friends' tweets and you can even update multiple twitter accounts all from the dialogue box without ever having to go to Twitter main site.
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Permalink Reply by JonClarke on
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www.FutureTweets.com - FutureTweets allows you to schedule your tweets ahead of time for a specific date and time and you can even schedule re-occuring tweets to post daily, monthly, even yearly.
www.Twtqpon.com - Enhance your social media marketing by offering discounted coupons to the Twitter-sphere!
www.TwitterCounter.com - Twitter analytics for you and to compare with others. Display the number of Twitter followers on your business blog or website. Add the badge to your site and invite customers to follow you on Twitter.
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Permalink Reply by no name on -
We have just finished this Twitter app: www.printyourtwitter.com
Why use this app?
• Print your tweets and twitpics and keep them forever.
• Create a diary of your life.
• Add your tweets to your holiday photos.
• Print what you twittered last month or year.
• Surprise your friends with their diary.
• Snailmail tweets to your grandparents to give them an update of your life.
• Keep a printed copy of your work progress
Captain Kick-Back
Watch This Space!
Lebedev in the MoneyIt seemed at best an unlikely plan when it was announced last year that Alexander Lebedev and his team intended to move the Evening Standard from paid to free distribution. However after just 9 months the paper has begun making money. Doubling the print costs and bidding farewell to the revenue made from newspaper sales, in the middle of a recession no less, was a tremendously bold move. But research has shown that all those additional copies are actually being read, and the beneficial effect this has had for advertisers has seen the coffers filling up once more.
Captain Kickback says: “with politicians stopping you in the street and patting down your pockets for loose change before taking your shoes and sending you on your way, this switch to free distribution was an intuitive masterstroke. The Standard used to sell 1,600 papers at Oxford Circus on a good day. Today, they can easily give away 20,000 copies there. Although owned and managed by the same team, it’s doubtful that the ailing Independent will follow the Standard into free distribution, but there are bound to be some interesting changes afoot.”
Metr0
Associated spent a day in court recently, taking out an injunction against the humorous politickists who published a spoof version of their free commuter newspaper, Metro. Metr0, as it was called, drew attention to the new government’s stance on immigration law by leading with a fake story that Gordon Brown was being forcibly repatriated to Scotland. 20,000 copies of the paper were given out in central London, none of the paper’s other 32 areas of distribution were targeted.
Ad Decline slowing
Reports on ad spend for the first quarter of 2010 have shown that the news for local newspapers is still bad, but is getting worse slower than it has been of late. The amount spent on local press advertising Jan-March was 5.2% down on the same period last year. So far, so bad, but if you consider that Oct-Dec 2009 was 14.1% down on Oct-Dec 2008, things suddenly start to look like they might be bottoming out.
Captain Kickback says: “much of this almost-improvement will be due to classified advertisers finding the money once more to do more than just pay the wage bill and hope that nobody asks for the rent, however media mix is also playing a part here. Over the last 2-3 years many advertisers will have eschewed print media in favour of an entirely digital campaign. Now that the budget allows it, many will now be recognising the value of a more varied schedule.”
6Music
No real news for advertisers here you might think, but BBC 6Music’s 11th hour rescue is solid news for DAB broadcasting. The BBC’s commitment to raise the station’s profile and listener base rather than close it down is shoe in foot with the government re-opening discussions on a switch off date for FM broadcasting: if we are all finally going to make the switch to DAB, the Beeb will have a vital role to play in creating and promoting DAB content worth listening to. The station’s survival could also be seen as a victory for social media, as campaigns on Facebook and activity on Twitter contributed to the BBC Trust receiving more than 25,000 emails asking that the station be kept open.
Captain Kickback says: “we need to either conclude our ablutions promptly or get off the pot with all this DAB business. The technology is nearly 30 years old and we’re still arguing about the switchover. It’s chickens and eggs though- the investment in signal strength will only come when listenership is high enough, but listenership will only be high enough once the signal strength is sufficient for DAB car stereos to be worth having. While we’re on the subject, since it is necessary by definition that a chicken has to have been born from an egg, but not similarly inherent in the nature of eggs that they must be laid by a chicken, clearly the egg came first. Furthermore, since mutation occurs only during reproduction, it’s surely inescapable that the first chicken as we know it will have been born from an egg laid by a not-quite chicken. But I digress.”
The Manchester Wall has Fallen
Having the confidence and the business acumen to beat Murdoch to the punch and put a paywall around your website is terrific. Not realising that almost nobody will pay up to £60 a year to read local gossip and restaurant reviews on Manchester Confidential is a terrific way to alienate users, lose face all over the shop and save yourself the bother of having to send out invoices to advertisers. Publisher Mark Garner won’t reveal how many of ManCon’s 260,000 free readers signed up to be paid-for subscribers to his website, but having reverted to a free model, is no doubt relieved that instead of being termed ‘a failure’ in the trade press it’s largely being described as ‘an experiment’.
Captain Kickback says: “It’s both unfair and inaccurate to compare ManCon to the Times, but nuts anyway. So long as a similar product is available elsewhere for free, it’s difficult to see why anybody would pay for their news online. It’s a brave or foolish imaginary media superhero who suggests that Murdoch has it wrong, but nuts anyway. Forcing users to pay for content will put a huge dent in user numbers, impacting advertising revenue, and while people can visit the BBC’s offering free of charge, why wouldn’t they?”
If you would like more detail on any of the issues discussed in this email, your Space and Time contact will be delighted to help.
See You Next Time!!
Captain Kickback
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