Tools

Verified Accounts are supposed to let you know what Twitter accounts are authentic and which ones are fake. You’ve no doubt seen them scattered around the Twitter-verse: Barack Obama, Lady Gaga and Gary Vaynerchuk are all Verified members. Want to see the list of all the accounts that have been Verified by Twitter? We’ve got it right here.
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Create a social media strategy, launch your campaign, and track the results in our Social Media Marketing Boot Camp starting February 16. The online event and workshop will feature speakers including Morin Oluwole (Facebook), Michael Brito (Edelman Digital), and Tim Devane (bitly). Register now.

While we think Twitter is just the bee’s knees, some people don’t. Some people actually want to leave Twitter forever, without a trace. If this is something you’ve considered, we won’t judge you. In fact, we’re here to help: we’ve got the single best tool for deleting all of your tweets permanently, without a chance of recovery.
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Every Friday, the Twitterverse comes together to share the best of the best on Twitter with each other – and anyone can get in on this conversation. #FollowFriday, or shortened to simply #FF, is a hashtag that has spawned one of the most popular trends in Twitter’s history. Ever had a follower or followee that you wanted to share with others? Use the #FollowFriday hashtag to hop on the karma train.
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If you’re a data hound, or you’re just interested in the who’s who of Twitter, ZoomSphere is a great place to start.

It’s not just a database of the top Twitter users, but rather a database that you can sort by multiple factors, getting down to the nitty gritty of who is leading Twitter in your country, who’s growing the fastest, and who’s the most influential.
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With more than a billion messages being tweeted every week, Twitter is the place to be if you want in on the conversation – any conversation. But with all of that chatter, it can be hard to focus in on one or two people you’re interested in having a real conversation with.

That’s where !blether comes in.

With !blether, you can have private chats with one or more Twitter users, simply by @mentioning them and starting your tweet with “!b”.
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It might seem like the only things that affect the amount you get retweeted are your follower count and what you’re tweeting – but the timing of your tweets is just as important. You might notice that when you tweet at certain times of the day you get more retweets than when you tweet at others, and you’re not alone. Finding the best time to tweet is crucial to reaching the most engaged audience on Twitter – and Timely, a new app from Flowtown, will help you find that time-of-day sweet spot. For free.
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TweetReach wants to help you answer the question “How far did my tweet travel?” They enable users to determine the reach and exposure of any Twitter username, hashtag, URL or keyword phrase.

If you’re interested in monitoring a Twitter campaign, evaluating the “stickiness” of your tweets or just seeing how effective you are at tweeting, you will want to log on to TweetReach and experiment with their newly minted free accounts – perfect for dipping your toes into Twitter analytics.
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Klout has announced today that 100 million people have used their service to find their Klout score. That’s 100 million different Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube and other social media accounts hooked up to Klout to see just how influential they are on the social web. And that’s a big deal.
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There’s a new tool available for you to track the hottest links on Twitter from 100 of the top news sources online. Popshared.com offers you insight into what’s popular right now on Twitter in the world of tech and social media, showing you which stories have been retweeted the most in the past 24 hours.
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On the surface, Twitter is simple. 140 characters per message, retweet if you want to share something, find interesting people to follow… that’s all there is to it, really. But it’s when you get deeper into the measurements of success and the creation of strategy that Twitter starts becoming complex.

That’s why we’re excited to share this tool with you today: it boils things down to their simplest. By entering your Twitter username, you’ll be able to see what days and times your tweets get the most retweets.
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