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Tools for Making the Most of Twitter

Twitter is a social networking site where you can sign up and send out updates, alerts, links and snippets of information to your followers. These are called Tweets. People are using Twitter as a key marketing tool for their business so how do you make the most out of Twitter for your business.

Follow Heather Wilkinson, Founder of Striding Out on Twitterhttp://twitter.com/stridingout

We've collated a whole list of tools for making the most of Twitter for your business...check them out...

http://twitterhandbook.com The DIY guide for using Twitter 

Nikki Pilkington hosts a blog 'Business on Twitter' , which gives the run down on how to make the most of it for business.

 www.twitter.com/twitkit   TwitKit is a Twitter sidebar for Firefox.

http://www.twitscoop.com/  -- allows you to find what's hot on Twitter

http://www.twitterfon.net/ TwitterFon is focused on 80% of your task of Twitter such as check friends/replies timeline, check direct messages, send a reply and/or a direct message, ...

http://www.twellow.com  A search directory of people by area of expertise, profession or other attribute listed in personal profiles on Twitter.

http://www.twhirl.org/ - for managing more than one twitter account

http://www.tweetbuddy.com/ is a simple, effective service for managing Twitter followers

http://www.friendorfollow.com/. Who are you following that's not following you back? Who's following you that you're not following back? Find out! ...

http://www.monitter.com/  Web-based tool that allows anyone to monitor Twitter in real-time for mentions of any words or phrases they choose.

http://tweetscan.com/  Allows you to search for your chosen keywords and phrases and send you alerts on a daily or weekly basis that match

http://www.mrtweet.net/   is your personal assistant for Twitter

http://www.tweetdeck.com/ enables you to organize your messages and create groups at

http://www.easytweets.com/  allows you to ask for tweets to be sent to you

You can link your blogs to http://www.twitterfeed.com/

http://www.outwit.com/   Outwit is an all-in-one application for extracting and organizing data from online sources.

Twitterific for iPhone -- Makes "twittering" fairly easy and more fun as you can do it anywhere.

http://www.twitpic.com/    Share photos with your friends on twitter with twitpic. No signup required, just login using your twitter account.

According to a report on the BBC News site (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7844595.stm) the UK is currently leading the field in terms of users,