20 Vital Twitter Management Tools for 2012

By Lilach at SocialAble.co.uk: 
Twitter is a fantastic social media channel.  But rarely do I actually log in to Twitter.  I tend to use the various different tools instead to help me manage my Twitter presence.  I’m often asked which are my favourite sites to manage Twitter more effectively and today I thought I would share with you my top 20 tools.  Some of them I use on a regular basis and couldn’t live without, others I dip into as and when I need to.

1. ManageFlitter: A great tool for easily managing your followers and who you are following. You can even link your Google+ account to your Twitter account. Also use it to find out which inactive accounts you follow, as well as search inside your Twitter stream.  I love ManageFlitter as it helps me see who is active/inactive out of my followers and use ManageFlitter regularly.
2. Social Oomph  My favourite tool to send recurring scheduled tweets.  A great time saver and you can use it on multiple accounts too.  Has various other features like purging your inbox, auto-following but I tend to use Social Oomph just for the scheduling of recurring tweets.
3. Commun.it: A great tool for keeping up to date with Twitter. It displays the people you are influenced by as well as those you are influencing the most. You can also obtain information on and update about who is mentioning you and your brand.
4. Argyle Social: Use this to track your metrics on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn, enabling you to measure the value of each social network. Learn how many clicks you get on your links and which networks visitors to your website have come from.
5. TweetDeck: This makes engaging with your followers quick and easy. You can monitor various search terms, hashtags and accounts. You can create Twitter groups to follow only those who Twitter about certain topics, and set it up filters for your Tweets.  Similar to Hootsuite.  I personally use Hootsuite over TweetDeck and wrote a review on Hootsuite here.
6. Refollow: Excellent for monitoring your Twitter network. You can check out someone’s bio/stats, helping you to decide whether to follow or unfollow them.  You can also easily sort your followers by various measures.
7. TweetLevel: Enables you to connect with the right people on Twitter. Excellent for checking both Twitter topics and users and finding new people. Easily search and analyse hashtags. Order your Tweets by a variety of ways.
8. Tweepi: A superb Twitter follower management tool. Offers insightful analytical information on Twitter users. Sort people you are following into different groups. Easily locate people following you (that you are not following).
9. The archivist: One of the best tools for monitoring keywords and hashtags. You can use it to look up any search term, view its Twitter history, top users of the term, how much it’s been tweeted, and associated hashtags. You can even establish a file and keep tabs on the associated activity if you are launching a campaign with a specific hash tag.
10. TwitterCounter: Gives comprehensive stats on all important Twitter activities, including number of followers, numbers following, and number of tweets. It also provides a graph displaying the twitter outputs versus follower numbers, clearly showing how well content is being received.
11. TwitCam: Upload photos from your computer or live photos from your web cam then submit them directly to your twitter profile. You can also incorporate animations into your photos.
12. Formulists – Enables you to build your lists more efficiently. It helps you to find, engage and analyse people on Twitter so you can build your community in a more effective way.
13. Twylah:  Creates a website page out of your tweets, great for sharing your content and by using Twylah your tweets get greater exposure for longer.
14. WhoTweetedMe: Great tool that analyzes a URL and shows you its most influential retweeters, potential reach and timeline.
15. MarketMeSuite: This is a great social media dashboard. With it you can create reply campaigns, pull in RSS feeds, compare the Klout score of users you are interacting with, and collaborate with others.  It is also similar to Hootsuite/TweetDeck. They had some other cool features where you could brand your tweets but had problems with Twitter’s API so removed this feature (which was my favourite feature!)
16. Tweriod: This is good tool to find out the best time to send your tweets. Tweriod gives you an excellent analysis of when you will be best able to reach the most followers and get the most exposure.
17. Twilert: Useful if you are continually trying to monitor a brand or a search term on Twitter. It can be set up for any term and you will then be notified about any Twitter activity on it. Similar concept as Google Alerts but for Twitter.
18. ParrotFish: Great tool that you download on Google Chrome in order to see the full preview of each tweet. Perfect for tweets that have links to photo’s and videos.
19. BrandChirp: Useful brand management tool for Twitter. Also has a follow target follow feature.
20. TwitLonger:  For when 140 characters aren’t long enough!

Create a Powerful Twitter Brand Page using Twylah

By Ajinkya at Blog404:
I got a Twylah page around 2 months ago when it was initially launched in beta . I wanted to write review on it but i just forgot during that time . And now when i see some good traffic coming from this page i couldn’t stop writing about it ! So here it goes ….
Twylah is a cool and powerful FREE Twitter Tool to build Your Twitter Brand plus Gain Followers enabling a 30x deeper engagement with your desired audience . This is the 1st of its kind where it simply beats all of the social media tools targeted at getting a piece of the Twitter pie. It has lotsa amazing features which are simply hard to resist. Moreover it displays the best of Your Tweets in a Visually Appealing Manner . The Twylah page has a crisp, clear design (sort of like Paper.li, but with just your own tweets) .
The Working :

Using Twylah is as simple as signing in via Twitter and waiting for your Profile to generate. You can retweet or reply from the Twylah page and you can also send a Power Tweet from the top menu. This means sending a tweet which will automatically have its own Twylah page. All Twylah pages within your profile include your Twitter bio, a Facebook Like button, a tweet button and a follow button so that people who see the page can connect with you and share your content easily through the major social networking platforms.

Followers who click on the shortened URL on Twitter, will be directed to a special landing page on Twylah that displays the content in a snippet view, along with related comments on that topic. Moreover you can search older Tweets Using Keywords which is a feature not much of the apps provide . You can search for older tweets from a month or week past. That’s why your tweets therefore don’t become irrelevant after a short period or get lost in the countless other tweets of others and everything proceeds in rhythm. You can get information on the number of retweets, replies, clicks, and more.
Design and Visual Appeal :

They say “Twylah converts your tweets into a landing page” . Now as you can see , the top nav displaying categories you most often tweet about. This provides an elegant choice to your Visitors and they no longer have to read tweets as a stream of flowing information. They can easily browse through your tweets based on their category of interest in a more engaging manner. Moreover it also displays photos attached to your tweets, videos and a brief instant preview of your tweet link’s contents. You get the true engagement with your fans and a real brand presence out of the tweets you are already creating.

I like it better than bare bone twitter stream as it makes me feel more like traditional blogging. I am sure a lot of people will like it as it more visual and appealing to browse. If you’re a blogger who’s active on Twitter, then this could be a great tool for you.
SEO benefits :

This is astonishing feat i love . You can drive Twitter Traffic Directly from your Twylah Page ! You don’t have to keep switching from your Twitter page to your Twylah page. You can get all your Twitter followers to communicate with you on your very own branded page and even follow people directly from your Twylah page. Visitors can also like pages from within your Twylah page

Since your tweets are displayed on a separate page, your Tweets become SEO optimized [Google will automatically index your Twylah page] and become more easily searchable on search engines like Google, Yahoo , Bing, and so others. Twylah’s analytics will also show what you tweet about, the timelines you tweet and how your audience engages with each of your tweet categories.

Twylah lets you create your page on your own domain which is a nice way to get readers stay on your site longer.

Its fun to hook your Twylah page into your own domain, so that effectively it’s part of your site [a sub-domain would be awesome]. After a little bit of tweaking, my Twylah page now appears on tweets.blog404.com. It gives a more rounded picture of what my Twitter followers can expect.No doubt Twylah aims to give a new view of incoming and outgoing tweets with more “context, perspective, and agility”.
How to set up your own custom domain mapped Twylah ?
Signup at twylah.com
Set up your sub-domain
Once you have your domain name registered, follow the instructions given there on how to create a sub-domain for Twylah
After that , email customdomains@twylah.com to let them know you have created a sub-domain and specify your Twitter handle in the message .
The crew at Twylah will then confirm the domain mapping process and complete their work and within no time you would get your own setup Twitter Brand Page

Conclusion :

Twylah looks like a really cool web app and its FREE . If you are looking to create a custom landing page for your business or brand with your Twitter followers then I don’t see any reason why you shouldn’t create one ! It has many awesome features with more good things to come.