Twitter Clients & Apps

Earlier this week, the makers of Twitter dashboard CoTweet announced that it would no longer be offered as a free service. As of February 15, any individuals or businesses using CoTweet will be required to start paying for it, or find an alternative.

So you’re not left in the lurch when CoTweet’s free service shuts down, we’ve compiled 5 of the best alternatives for all your Twitter management needs – and they’re all free.
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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.

It’s a big day for HootSuite and another major milestone – the social media dashboard has just announced it’s 3,000,000th signup.

HootSuite, which has added a million users since July of last year, sends 1.5 daily messages, and has now been part of over 700 million total submissions sent via 6 million unique social profiles. Previously it took the platform 24 months to sign its millionth user, and eight months to move from one to two million users – the jump to three million has taken just six months.

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If you haven’t tried Buffer yet, you should. It’s a light-weight, simple tool for scheduling your tweets when your followers will see them, so you get more clicks, retweets and mentions.

And Buffer has just launched its brand new iPhone app, making it even easier for you to pop your tweets into your Buffer and let the magic happen – while you’re on the subway, at a restaurant or in the park.
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Buffer is certainly shaping up to be the little Twitter app that could. It offers the simply functionality of scheduling your tweets to go live when they will be seen by the most people, but it does so in a big way.

You can schedule tweets from your browser, smartphone, Twitter.com, email with Buffer, and now they’ve added a partnership with Vienna RSS to the mix to enable you to schedule tweets from within your RSS reader.
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Amid the flurry of updates coming from Twitter yesterday – including a complete redesign of its website and apps and brand pages for businesses – one piece of news got lost in the shuffle: the massive changes Twitter made to its dashboard, TweetDeck.
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The folks at Buffer – the simple Twitter scheduling tool that gets you 200 percent more clicks on your links – have just released a Buffer Button for websites. Now, whenever you want to share an article on Twitter, you can hit “Buffer” and it will be scheduled to go live at the best time of day.
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If you’re a news junkie, or just want to be up-to-date on what’s going on in the world, you’ve got to try Muck Rack. It’s a platform that gathers, filters and analyses tweets from journalists around the world, and it’s a must-use for anyone in the news or communication industry.
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Buffer is one of the darling Twitter apps of the tweet elite. It allows you to add content items – a link, a retweet – to your buffer, and schedules them to be tweeted from your Twitter account at optimal time throughout the day.

Now, Buffer has expanded how you can share your social content by partnering with Ifttt (If this then that). The combo of these two apps now lets you share nearly anything you like on the web with your Twitter followers, at the best time of day to see high engagement rates.
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Attention all you Twitter fiends, this app might just be for you: Tweeki, a new app from SweetLabs, will give you instant access to all your Twitter needs. The app is a lightweight program that stays pinned to your taskbar, so you don’t have to waste precious seconds loading up a web app or waiting for a desktop app to start.
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HootSuite, one of the most popular Twitter dashboards, is expanding in a big way. The company just announced its new App Directory, a platform for third-parties to integrate their existing apps (or build custom ones) into HootSuite.

The first wave of big-name apps to hit the directory include YouTube, Flickr, Tumblr and Get Satisfaction.
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