If you didn’t know how to make blogging and twitter meet, check these out:

• Add to Any (plugin) - Help readers share, save, bookmark, and email your posts and pages using any service, such as Facebook, Twitter, Digg, Delicious, and over 100 more social bookmarking and sharing sites. The button comes with Add to Any’s customizable Smart Menu, which places the services visitors use at the top of the menu, based on each visitor’s browsing history.
• TweetMe (plugin) - Automatically shrinks and sends your url to twitter and lets your users share your content on twitter. There is also a non-wordpress version located here
• TwitPress - Submits a user definable tweet to your twitter account notifying any twitter followers or friends that a new blog entry has been published on your blog (or an existing published entry has been edited). Supports inclusion of a permalink to your blog posting in the tweet.
• TwitterCounter - Allows you to integrate TwitterCounter badges on your blog.
• TwitThis - TwitThis is an easy way for people to send Twitter messages about your blog post or website.
• MyTwitter - MyTwitter allows users to display their recent Twitter status updates (tweets) on their Wordpress site and update their status through the Options page. Includes customization options including number of recent twitters to display, formatting options, and stylesheets. It can be called as a function or used as a widget.

I copy-pasted some of the descriptions from their original websites, I hope you don’t mind :)

Try’em out, enjoy them, and don’t forget to comment on this post.

Cheers!

We’ll talk a little about mobile clients, email clients, IM, widgets, etc, as we know twitter supports updating by phone and many other ways. Actually this is what twitter was built for, to give the users the possibility to update their status from anywhere, even if they don’t have internet connection.

As for mobile clients (I’m not talking about updating by SMS, that’s supported by every cell phone, but regular apps that you can install and run from your mobile):

• TwitterBerry - It works over the data network, so you don’t need to use SMS
• TwitterMail - Tweet via email, its name says everything
• OutTwit - Update via outlook
• TwitterIM - Same as Tiwttermail

There are also few widgets and addons supported by firefox and opera, if you need any of them simply google for “firefox twitter add-on” or “opera….” and you’ll find plenty of them for sure.

See ya next time!

This is probably the funniest part of twitter tools, the desktop clients. You can get your replies / messages without destroying your F5 key on your keyboard :)

So, my help for you on this issue:

• Twhirl - I started using it few days ago and I must say I enjoyed playing with it. The coolest thing seems to be the retweet button (not present on twitter.com)
• TweetDeck - Many say it’s crashing, I didn’t try it to be honest, but it seems promissing
• GTwitter - As almost every software on this planet, the twitter desktop clients have an equivalent for linux as well
• Witty - Twitter for Vista
• TwitterPod - Twitter client for mac. I don’t have a mac so I didn’t try it.
• Twitterific - Another one for mac
• Snitter - This one has a version for Mac and Windows as well. Didn’t try it but seems to be cool

If you’re using other desktop clients, simply reply to this post and I’ll be happy to add them here.

Today we’re going to talk about tools that’ll help you get info from twitter to use for market research, your curiosity, new blog posts, statistics, etc (leave it to your imagination)

• TweetScan - They claim to be an all-in-one solution. It can search on twitter, identi.ca and many more.
• Retweetist - If you’re ranked on this website, this means your tweet is being retweeted a lot
• TwitBuzz.com - It was suffering last time when I tried it
• TwitScoop - Hottest twitter trends
• TweetBeep - Keep track of you conversations, your messages, etc
• TweetNews - News ranked based on related tweets
• Monitter - Real Time twitter monitor

Enjoy! :)

Hi

For those of you who asked for a tweetme button valid for other platforms (other than wordpress), good news. It’s here.

Installation instructions:

• download the zip from here
• inside that zip there’s an index.html file. Open it with notepad or whatever and select everything inside
• paste the copied text into your pages (of course, if your platform supports this - it’s best to ask first)
• you’re good to go

Cheers

PS:

• It’s platform independent. If you have  a browser, it should work
• If anything goes wrong or you discover any bug, report here

Manage your tweeties and find more using these services.

• TwitterLocal - Filter tweets by location
• FellowCost - Find out how annoying will be to follow a specific user on twitter. Pretty funny :)
• TweetWheel - Find out how many of your friends know each other
• Qwitter - Sends you a message when someone stops following you on twitter. Useful if you don’t have thousands of followers. And I hope it doesn’t do it by crawling all your followers …
• Who should I follow - Gives you suggestions of who you should follow by studying your tweets (I think)
• SocialToo - I’ve said before about this. It’s pretty cool, you can auto follow your latest followers or send them direct messages. It also gives daily reports on who followed or unfollowed you during the last 24hrs
• Tweepler - Uhm … not very impressed with this one. I’d love a bulk remove feature for those who aren’t following me. Guys, if you see this, add it. PS: I like your color scheme
• TwitDir - Off for maintenance, lol. I’m feeling that “site down” effect again.
• Tweelow - Twitter yellow pages (never thought I’ll see this)
• Just Tweet It - Find other twitters like you ( I think based on your posts).

Anyway, play with them and let me know which one to delete :)

- Peter

Save your time and resources using these tools I’m going to name today.

• TweetDeck - it has tome interesting functions that will help you be more efficient in following people you really want to follow… and it’s stealth :)
• TwitResponse - twitter+autoresponder = twitresponse
• Tweet O’Clock - will help you find the best time to get your followers attention. Find out when it’s the best time to tweet someone
• TweepSearch - search through your followers
• FriendOrFollow - who’s not following you back? who aren’t you following?
• Twalala - If you’re getting spammed with lots of stupid messages, you can put some of your friends on mute using this tool
• TwitterSnooze - almost the same with twalala
• JustSignal.com - filter the tweets and receive only the ones you’re interested in, based on certain keywords.

Enjoy, and don’t forget to signup to be updated when a new post is made on this list.

- Peter

Hey, tweeple.

I just finished my newest plugin named “TweetMe”.

Features:

• it adds a tweet me button at the end of each post (just like it does on this post)
• it automatically sends you to your update page on twitter (after that you just have to push submit)
• it automatically shrinks the URL to a short one (so you don’t have to worry about the 140 chars limit anymore)
• all your visitors will be able to share your URL on twitter with a total of 2 clicks
• it’s very light (only few kb… ridiculous small actually)

Click here to download TweetMe for WordPress

Cheers

As promised, here’s the part 2 of this short e-course. Today we’re going to talk about tools that help you analyse your twitter data and your friends stats.

So, here we go:

1. Retweetrank - A nice tool to find out how many people are retweeting you and how many retweet others.
2. Twitterholic - By using this tool, you can find out the most active twitter users and discover your twitter stats as well. It’s cool, check it out.
3. TweetStats - Like its name says, a twitter stats tool, with graphs & stuff … cool as well
4. TweetWasters - This can really help you optimize your time spent because it calculates the time you spend and … waste on twitter :)
5. Tweet-Rank - Tweak your tweets quality by using this tool and noticing which one generated you new followers and which one let you without some of them

I think 5 of them is enough for now, I’ll post the next small collection tomorrow or the day after. You have enough time to test and play with these ones until then.

Take care

Every day you can hear more and more about twitter. They now have millions and millions of users and it seems like everybody is twitting from time to time, if not daily or in frenzy mode. Some of us twit just for fun, some of us interact with people and make friends, some use it to promote their businesses and I’ve seen some real success stories lately (we’ll talk about that later). Like many say, Twitter.com has become a real social revolution. Therefore, I’m going to invite you to open an account if you don’t have one, and if you don’t know much about twitter, you can read the links below. If you do, you can skip to a later episode in this series.

So, here we go:

1. First and the most important resource is twitter itself. We all know that no matter what we do, trial & error is the best thing to test things. So, if you want to spread the word about your business, or simply interact with people, just do it and you’ll learn a lot of stuff
2. The big juicy twitter guide - just click on the link :) It’s a tiny guide to introduce you to twitter
3. Twictionary - A dictionary to introduce you to twitter terms & stuff
4. The Twitter Blog - Guess what: the twitter official blog
5. Explore twitter - Learn more about twitter

That’s about it for now, come back tomorrow for more. I’ll be posting about information analysis and how you can get numbers from twitter.

Cheers!