Twitter tools - all you need to get started

Twitter is now the second most popular social network, behind Facebook .With over 100 million global active users its hard to keep track of things.With the torrential streams of Twitter updates (or tweets), there's an emerging demand to sieve signals from noises and harvest useful information.If you are a tweeter (apparently not everybody is), then it’s quite probable that you’ll want to get the most out of your experience. From Twitter clients that build on top of the default UI to finding people to follow and learning more about your Twitter activity, here is a list of a few excellent Twitter tools.(you may find many tools out there ,but these are the essential ones )



Twitter Tools to Streamline, Manage and Grow Your Account.


TweetDeck - Now part of twitter - the most popular professional Adobe Air client for Twitter. Supports, searches, groups, multiple accounts.Users can send tweets or direct messages with automatic URL shortening. A recent update to the rapidly evolving application also lets users update Facebook and MySpace accounts


SeesMic - More like Tweetdeck but less buggy and with a better interface.It also allows monitoring of multiple accounts, both on Twitter and Facebook.


HootSuite - It allows you to manage multiple accounts in a tabbed interface, and under each account you can have multiple columns to keep track of mentions, direct messages, lists, keyword searches, and much more.You can Schedule posts and tweets, review mentions, direct messages and see click-through stats


TwitPic - lets you share photos on Twitter. You can post pictures to TwitPic from your computer,phone,etc.Through TwitPic home page you can post pictures to your twitter account.


Klout: Specifically for Twitter, Klout measures a huge range of criteria, and creates a Klout Score to measure your influence.


Your Twitter Karma - Twitter needs a decent page for your followers, with the functionality to sort them by type. This Web app does that.It is one of the popular unfollow tools to unfollow Twitter users.


Tweepi - A geekier and faster way to manage your twitter account.One of the best tools to manage your Twitter account.It helps you to follow interesting users,unfollow unnecessary ones'.This can come in handy if you find a Twitter member whose followers would also be interested in your tweets.


FriendOrFollow - You may follow lots of people in your niche; I am sure all of them won’t follow you back. So with this tool you will able to find out the people who are not following you back.


ManageFilter - #1 pick for unfollowing Twitter users.Very smart to analyze your account and group the twitter followers based on these criteria – Not following back, No profile image, Inactive, Talkative and Quiet.


JustUnfollow - Another simple tool to unfollow the Twitter users.The application does not do anything other than what it should do.Just unfollow as the name suggest .Very simple to use and highly recommended.


Twellow – Twitter “Yellow Pages”, one of the oldest and most reputable Twitter user directories


TWITALYZER - provides activities analysis of any Twitter user, based on social media success yardsticks.


TwitterCounter - reat tool to see how many people are following you over time, so you will be able to tell if your numbers are going up or going down.You can see the number of followers and tweets for up to the past three months for free. You can get up to the past six months if you "pay with a retweet"


Twitlonger - Twitlonger is an easy way to post long messages to Twitter without the need to write a blog post. Write what you need there and they will post the link to Twitter for you.