Are you using Twitter For Marketing?
Each online marketer who finds himself respectable or who is online for several months has a Twitter account nowadays; there’s no question about that.
But are they all using Twitter to its maximum potential AND, more important are they all at least using it THE RIGHT WAY?
Hmmm…. I don’t think so! 
To be honest with you, when I first learned about Twitter, about two years ago, I didn’t see it’s potential; I even didn’t like it that much. It was a queer thing for me to send a short 140 character message multiple times a day to tell people what I had been up to. So I didn’t use it that much at first… and I certainly did not use it the right way…
Another “problem” I had was that the number of followers started growing, so it was impossible to keep up with the endless flow of messages from all the other people.
To cut it short, I did not see Twitters potential and I did not know how to use it in a practical way without spending hours and hours on it…
Maybe you feel or felt the same way, and I understand it exactly 
But since I’ve understood how it works, I’m sharing with you some ideas and some useful Twitter applications that’ll make your Twitter experience such a pleasurable one and maybe most important will give you a way of using Twitter for marketing (without spamming other peoples accounts!)
You can use these resources to make your Twitter experience more productive and a great leverage of your time.
CAUTION !!! “When you read further from this point, you might end up being a Twitter Addict… So take it easy and brace yourself.”
Okay, since you’re willing to take the risk, read the overview for 10 Useful Twitter Applications:
- SocialOomph (used to be www.TweetLater.com) – Personally I use this to send automated Twitter welcome messages to new followers. There are many more things you can get from SocialOomph, check out the site for it.There are some bozos who use this tool to spam by sending their affiliate links on the welcome message. Don’t be one of them!! This is totally useless AND it will surely ruin your reputation.
→ “Remember with Twitter or any social networking site, you are creating relationships more than anything, so don’t ever spam!”
- TweetDeck – This cool tool makes it super easy for you to follow people you are interested in. This allows you to group people which makes their messages organized and easy for you to read along.
They say TweetDeck is like the air traffic control for Twitter. With this great tool, you can connect with Facebook and MySpace friends through status updates, video and photo posts, comments, or voting and following your friends as they are placed in columns, to keep track of what they are doing.
There is a similar service to TweetDeck, named HootSuite. The advantage of this service is that it is completely webbased.
Find more about it on my post about HootSuite!
- Twellow is Twitter’s yellow pages directory, one of the useful Twitter applications you’ll surely love. This is the directory of Twitter accounts with hundreds of categories and advanced search features to find those people who really matter.
There are many things you can do with Twellow. You can update your Twellow profile and categories as well as add links to your social media profiles. You can also come up with extended bio profiles and add all the links you want. It’s never too hard to follow anyone you are interested in with Twellow and the best part is that it also comes with free registration.
- Twollo is a keyword-based tool that automates the process of getting more targeted Twitter followers than you can possibly imagine. A very useful application that you can setup and forget. Once it’s set up it keeps running and working in the background without you lifting a finger.
- BubbleTweet is the cool tool that allows you to drop little friendly video notes to your Twitter followers, making it easier for you to have as many followers as you want with a Video Bubble Tweet.
- TwitterFriendAdder – This tool is very helpful in targeting specific followers. This allows you to easily remove and add Twitter followers as you want.
There are other tools that can do this but if you want to do it fast and easy, you can get TwitterFriendAdder. This tool saves you a lot of time, you can find more information on this page.
- Twitter Karma – This is another tool that lets you remove and add followers. It’s one of the useful Twitter applications that are free but there’s a limitation to it. When you start having many Twitter followers, it takes a very, very long time to do so…
- TwitPic - This cool tool allows you to share your pictures on Twitter. Very cool!
- TwitterCounter – This highly informative tool let’s you know at a glance the number of followers, friends, and number of updates. This would truly help you in comparing one account with another.
- TwitterGrader – This great tool helps you gauge the power of your Twittering. With this tool, you can check on the power leveraged by your Twitter profile. It also includes the number of followers, these followers’ power, and the level to which you engage in a community.
This is merely an overview of some very useful Twitter applications I personally use. As said before these tools will help you a lot when you are using twitter for marketing.
This list is not all there is to it, there are much more twitter applications out there, but these 10 applications are very good and practical.
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Till Next Time,
Elmar Sandyck
January 31st, 2010 at 4:20 am
Cool post! How much stuff did you have to look up in order to write this one? I can tell you put some work in.
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Elmar Reply:
February 1st, 2010 at 10:17 pm
Thanks!
I didn’t look up that much, just wrote down what I use myself and what I think might be helpful for other people.
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February 1st, 2010 at 5:44 am
You would be crazy to not use more Twitter marketing
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Elmar Reply:
February 1st, 2010 at 10:18 pm
Indeed Justin!
Twitter is so powerful you would be crazy to not use it for marketing…as long as you do it the right way
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Tim Knowles Reply:
April 12th, 2011 at 3:27 pm
I agree..I think it is done the work way so many times by companies. It is not good enough just to tell people what products you have in stock/what services you offer repeatedly – they want to know something interesting.
Keep it interesting and fresh so you increase your followers and genuinly engage your audience.
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February 1st, 2010 at 10:27 pm
Twitter are a MUST for webmasters!
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February 6th, 2010 at 12:26 am
Lovely post — and your site is gorgeous. Thanks for the thoughtful and helpful items. I agree that twitter can be addictive — it’s one of my favorite places to hang out and goof off when I have a few minutes or need to regroup between projects!
And by the way… I tweeted about your post…
.-= Liz McGowen´s last blog ..Are you hiding behind perfectionism? =-.
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admin Reply:
February 6th, 2010 at 1:24 am
Hi Liz,
Thanks for the compliment, it’s always great to hear nice things!
Personally I also like Twitter a lot, but it was not always that way.
Before I knew how to use it, I didn’t like it that much… but once you grasp how it works and you see it’s potential it is dangerous to become addicted isn’t it….
Thanks for stopping by!
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February 18th, 2010 at 4:30 pm
Even though I would have appreciated it further if you added a relevant video or at the least pictures to support the description, I still thought that your write-up quite useful. It’s normally not easy to make a intricate issue appear very easy. I value your internet site and will sign up for your feed so I won’t miss anything. Amazing content
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admin Reply:
February 18th, 2010 at 6:02 pm
Hi Rudolf,
Video is the next thing I’m working on to add to my site.
Thanks for the suggestion anyway.
Elmar
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May 24th, 2010 at 2:51 pm
I use SocialOomph and find it to be very useful even at the free level. Great list and I am checking out some of the others now.
Bruce
.-= Bruce Cagle´s last blog ..Free Traffic For Your MLM Site (or Any Site) =-.
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admin Reply:
May 25th, 2010 at 11:21 am
Hey Bruce,
SocialOomph is very useful indeed!
Just let me know when you found some other great Twitter applications
that are not listed above. I’m always eager to learn!
Elmar
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May 25th, 2010 at 9:54 am
Howdy there,Excellent blog dude! i am Tired of using RSS feeds and do you use twitter?so i can follow you there:D.
PS:Have you considered putting video to the blog posts to keep the readers more interested?I think it works., Adolph Gronewald
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admin Reply:
May 26th, 2010 at 6:14 pm
Hi Adolph,
Yes, I considered putting video to the blog, but didn’t come to that yet.
Thanks for reminding me!
Elmar
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June 1st, 2010 at 3:13 pm
Yo,nice article,thanks for your share! and I want to know if i can use this article in my site if I place a link back to yours? Waiting for your reply!
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admin Reply:
June 1st, 2010 at 10:03 pm
Hi Ryan,
Thanks for the compliment!
You can use the article on your site if you place a link back to mine (to this article)
and if you mention the author, which is me
Thanks for stopping by!
Elmar
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October 12th, 2010 at 5:21 am
This is the reason I adore twitter, seriously, does it get any better.
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January 22nd, 2011 at 2:51 pm
Elmar,
I am STILL amazed that Twitter and other social media services are so popular, it’s like some kind of foreign thing to me. I set up a twitter account, I still follow no one and no one follows me, lol.
I will try out the applications that you posted and let you know if I become addicted.
Nice site BTW!
Jeff S. recently posted..Commercial Services – Cubicle and Workstation Installation
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admin Reply:
January 23rd, 2011 at 2:47 pm
Thanks for dropping by Jeff. Let me know if you get to try these app yourself
. I’d be interested in hearing your experience with it.
Elmar
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June 4th, 2011 at 1:53 am
Those applications are very useful. One problem which I face when I use twitter for the first time is the limitation of the word. When people want to say something, they cannot say it freely. Thanks to those applications now people can state longer story and upload photos and video in twitter.
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admin Reply:
June 8th, 2011 at 2:52 pm
Hi Margaret,
It really is very challenging to write your thoughts in 140 characters or less
. That’s the challenge of microblogging. The rule KISS aka keep it short and simple really applies here. This is Twitter’s charm and if it’s any more, then it has nothing really unique or special to offer. But, yes, some people really need to extend their stake on Twitter a bit more and these applications provide the answer.
Thanks for sharing your insights.
Elmar
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