Top 5 Twitter Toys

Now that I have Twitter and Facebook hooked together I seem to be making more updates on a daily basis, and I’ve been using a variety of tools to help me better engage with the Twitterverse. Here are a few of the jewels which I’ve learned to love.

• Qwitter: Tracks which followers have decided to abandon ship and which Tweet pushed them over the edge.
• Twollow: Auto-follow Tweets which contain keywords which you are interested in. You can track up to 5 phrases. For me, I auto-follow those with words like “small business” “entrepreneur” and “interactive agency”. However, I would very much like a frequency setting to help qualify people who Tweet about these topics from those who make passing mention of a phrase.
• FB2Twitter: For those of you who want to keep the World of Facebook separate from Twitter, this is obviously not for you. For those who want to reduce your number of status update locations, this is a dream.
• Twist by Flaptor: A great application for tracking the trends on Twitter. It’s more of a pulse check for various terms, likely not something which is going to be useful on a daily basis.
• Greasemonkey Nested Reply Script: This is a beauty for viewing which replies are in context to which Tweets. You’ll need Greasmonkey and Firefox to make this work. One note however: the nesting is in reverse which feels a bit counter intuitive.
  

I hope you enjoy these nuggets of goodness as much as I do. They have made my Twitter experience very enjoyable.

Oh, and Happy New Year! See you on Twitter @gmorris