Twitter Applications Allow You to Be More Effective

Posted by Denise Griffitts on Sep 12, 2008 in Internet Mastery | 0 comments

Like me, you are probably already posting to Twitter directly on the Twitter website. Unfortunately this approach can be limited in that you need to be at your computer. Now you can post to Twitter directly from your desktop as well as you iPhone, Mac or Blackberry.

This list of software applications and various services will make your Twitter experience easier and enjoyable.

Tweetdeck

TweetDeck is an Adobe Air desktop application that is currently in public beta. It aims to evolve the existing functionality of Twitter by taking an abundance of information i.e twitter feeds, and breaking it down into more manageable bite sized pieces.

TweetLater

You can schedule a maximum of 12 status update tweets for any rolling 60 minute window, and you can’t use this service to send replies or direct messages. This isn’t a service for spammers.

twhirl

twhirl is a social software desktop client, that runs on both Windows (2000/XP/Vista) and Mac OSX. In addition to Twitter, twhirl will connect you to multiple identi.ca, Friendfeed and seesmic accounts. You can also use twhirl to cross-post your twitter updates to Pownce and Jaiku.

Twittelator

Twittelator is an ad-free application by the Big Stone Phone Company for your iPhone. Twittelator can be downloaded from Big Stone’s “App Store” on your iPhone. In an emergency, you can simply click the Emergency icon to create a Tweet with a map of your current location.

TwitterBerry

TwitterBerry is mobile client for posting updates to Twitter. It works over the data network, so you don’t need to use SMS. Supported devices include:

• BlackBerry Curve
• BlackBerry 8800 Series
• BlackBerry Pearl (8100, 8110, 8120, 8130)
• BlackBerry 8700 Series
• BlackBerry 7130 Series
• BlackBerry 7100 Series
• BlackBerry 7200 Series
• BlackBerry 7520

twitterfeed

Automatically feed your blog posts (or any other RSS or Atom feed) to Twitter with Twitterfeed.

Twitterrific

Twitterrific is Mac application that lets you “tweet” or read posts from the Twitter community website. Twitterrific can be used free of charge with no limitations, but registering the program removes the ads.

Enjoy!