25 Tools for getting more out of Twitter

If you’ve become best friends with the Fail Whale and you retweet in your sleep, check out this list of tools to take your Twitter usage to the next level.

1. TwitterLocal – Find Twitter users near a specific location

2. Polldaddy – Conduct a poll through Twitter

3. Twellow – Search just the tweets of your friends and followers

4. Commuter Feed – Follow or post traffic updates in your area

5. TweetVolume – Search for and compare popular topics on Twitter

6. Twitterfountain – Twitter/Flickr mashup that shows tweets and photos of a given keyword simultaneously

7. TweetBurner – Track the links you share on Twitter

8. Tweetwire – Follow the news through the eyes of Twitter users

9. TwitterFox – Firefox extension for following tweets

10. TwitThis – Buttons and bookmarklets that allow users to send links to your content over Twitter

11. TweetScan – Twitter keyword search

12. Twittervision – See recent tweets on a map

13. Monitter – Track what people are saying on Twitter about up to three specific keywords

14. Summize – Twitter search

15. LiveTwitting – Cover conferences and meetings using Twitter

16. Timer – Get reminders through Twitter

17. Twistori – Great aggregator for finding specific sentiments on Twitter

18. Twitter Weather Map – Track weather on a map mashup

19. EmailTwitter – Skip twitter and text messages and use email to send and follow tweets

20. Twitter Tools – Integrate Twitter into WordPress

21. 24 o’clocks – Follow a user’s tweets, broken down by hour

22. MrTweet – Find out which Twitter users you should be folowing

23. TweetWheel – Find out which of your followers know each other

24. Twitter Friends Network Browser – Visualize any Twitter user’s network

25. Twisten.FM – Find out what music other tweeps are listening to

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Also on 10,000 Words:

• The top 7 mistakes new Twitter users make
• Twitter is…
• How to analyze your Twitter followers and friends
• 10 Journalists you should follow on Twitter

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