Twitter Talk, Just Tweet It!

We've been through the best and worst of the Print, Broadcast and Trade media on Twitter, and now it's time to look at the applications that we think help you get the best out of it. In light of the recent news that 60% of people leave twitter after one month, never to be seen again, these applications should help you get the most out of your twitter experience.

At first, Twitter can be a bit daunting, knowing who to follow and where to look to find your friends, or people who you think might be interesting. It’s a bit like being the new kid at school, except with twitter there’s no one there to hold your hand, or pack your lunch. To help you make friends, and find some followers, one of the sites you need to look at is Twellow. Twellow is like a yellow pages for twitter, with people listed by what their interests are, and how many people follow them. We’ve found it a really useful leg up on the twitter ladder. It gives you a feel for what people tweet about, and whether or not you think they’re going to be useful.

 

Another ideal tool for twitter beginners to get started is Justtweetit.com. Not only does this great little website put a Michael Jackson song in your head every time you use it, it also allows you to find people who are just like you. You sign up for the service and it allows people with similar interests to find you. You already know you’ve got something in common, and it’s a great way to get some followers who might be entertaining and enlightening.

If you want another way to find people, and, perhaps more importantly allow them to find you, then we recommend that you sign up for wefollow.com. This site operates in a similar way to Justtweetit.com, granted, you won’t have a Michael Jackson song in your head everytime you visit their website, but you might get a fair few followers. Wefollow works in a similar way to twellow and justtweetit, the only major difference being that on this site you tell it what you add your three main interests are, and it lists you according to them. We think this is a really handy way to get your name noticed amongst people who share similar interests to you.

Now you’ve got your tags and your search sorted, and hopefully got some followers you’ve probably noticed that the twitter website isn’t the easiest way to keep tabs on your followers. Granted, it’s easy to see what they’re doing, but really difficult to see when they reply to your tweets.

We’ve found the best solution to this comes in the shape of tweetdeck. This handy application keeps all of your followers in the same place, allowing you to view their latest tweets, see all your replies, look at your friends profile and much more, without the inconvenience of using the twitter homepage.

What’s really great about tweetdeck are the applications that you can plug into it. One that we’ve found really indispensible is twitscoop. This is a really invaluable plugin that lets you see what’s hot and what’s not in the world of twitter. It’s refreshed really frequently too and is a really cool way of seeing what’s being tweeted about right now.

 

Finally,

 

It doesn’t matter who’d wrong or right, or just tweet it… (We told you justtweetit.com had that effect, didn’t we.)