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New Media Toolbox: Must-Have Twitter Apps

Manage your Twitter presence with these innovative apps that let you sync updates with other sites, schedule tweets, and even break the 140-character limit

April 13, 2010
Twitter can serve as a marketplace of valuable information, a mode of personal and professional empowerment, and a testing ground for new ideas and innovations. Then again, it can turn into a huge popularity contest, where the name of the game is to accumulate as many unqualified followers as possible just for the hell of it.

It's ephemeral, a dizzying stream of nothing and everything all at the same time. And that's what makes it so genius. So how can you harness its power and make it useful for your needs? Thankfully, some bright minds have developed a slew of free tools and apps to make controlling those random streams of consciousness even easier.

Just like they say in their "About Us" section, "how you use Twitter is completely up to you." You control who you want to follow, who you don't want to follow you, what you say, and how you reply. ...

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