Twitter is useful, although business users can be much more productive by taking advantage of some of the third party apps built on the Twitter API. Here are 10 add-ons that any business user might want to consider using to be more productive.
who.unfollowed.me
Do you ever wonder the age old question, who unfollowed me on twitter? Wonder no more! We allow you to easily check your unfollowers on your schedule, every 15 minutes, without waiting for an email or a direct message. A pro version is also available to automatically check and report on your unfollowers. What’s the use… well, if anything its fun to know and its also useful to detect people that simply jump on and follow you to try and increase their auto follow back numbers.
Pegshot
Highly under-used, Pegshot is an awesome way to checkin from places. Where it shines is for sharing digital media (photos and videos) as the app crunches data and uploads very fast… no more timing out when uploading a video clip… the perfect twitter companion! For avid users you can also easily create a custom venue for twitter collaboration.
CoTweet
CoTweet is a comprehensive Web-based social media engagement, management and reporting solution that helps companies of all sizes engage, track and analyze conversations about their brands across the most popular and influential social communities today, Twitter and Facebook. CoTweet Enterprise Edition and CoTweet Standard Edition help marketers and customer support professionals manage their day-to-day social media conversations from a centralized, easy-to-use dashboard.
TweetBeep
What’s the use of any company being on Twitter if you aren’t monitoring who’s talking about you? Keep track of conversations that mention you, your products, your company, anything, with hourly updates! You can even keep track of who’s tweeting your website or blog, even if they use a shortened URL (like bit.ly or tinyurl.com).
WeePlaces
For the user who checks in frequently. An interesting time lapse that paints a clear picture of your travels… great visuals used in the service via data from Cloudmade and OpenStreetMap. Finally, the app reports and does check-ins, it also displays facebook Places and GoWalla check-ins!
paper.li
Create a daily newspaper (html) from your tweets, a twitter list, or a twitter hashtag.. a fabulous resource! Some people find it a little too automated and a bit mundane, however, paper.li can help to keep tabs on your lists. Create a good list on a specific topic, create a paper,li, setup to auto post and tweet every day. Your paper will update every 24 hours and people will appreciate getting a mention from you. A sample would be for a company would be to create a list of clients or customers/users and share with the World.. Your clients will love you!
Tvider
Tvider is the simplest and fastest way to share pictures, videos and audio on Twitter from your mobile and computer. Idea for any power user who shares loads of digital media, this is ideal for a company rep to use when on location at an event. Upload and share live video feeds with your clients and customers.
bit.lify
Perfect for the Blackberry corporate user… bit.lify integrates bit.ly into your BlackBerry browser enabling you to easily to shorten and share urls on the go.
TweetMic
Again, another great app for the business travel while on location at events… Speak your mind on Twitter! TweetMic is a simple and intuitive Twitter client app for the iPhone that allows you to make high-quality audio recordings or “Tweetcasts” and publish them directly to Twitter.
Twitter Follow Finder by Google
An Interesting app that suggest Tweets that you might wish to follow – based on similar interests . The app analyzes a social graph based on a number of parameters and suggests additional followers. You don’t need to use your twitter name, for example, enter GIS-user and you’ll be returned with a wealth of information on other GIS tweets that are worth following (perhaps). The app returns tweets you might “like” and tweets with similar interest.
