7 Time Saving Twitter Tools

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I love Twitter and it’s a great tool to use to build your online profile and engage with other people.  One of the great advantages of Twitter is that it’s quick and easy to use but the downside can be that it becomes very time consuming as you get sucked into posting your own tweets, reading other people’s tweets and getting involved in conversations.  So if you’re finding that Twitter is starting to eat away at your time, then here are 7 tools that you can use to manage your Twitter account.

Buffer:  A great tool for posting tweets – Buffer will allow you to add up to 10 posts in their free basic account and these are timed to have the highest impact and reach with your followers during the day.

Social Bro: Lets you post tweets and manage your followers all from one dashboard.  You can see who you’re following and who’s following you, as well as check your inactive followers and who’s not following you back.  Social Bro will also tell you the best time to tweet and you can connect your Social Bro account with Buffer to schedule your tweets so they are sent out at optimal times when the majority of your followers are online.

Social Oomph:  Well-established Twitter tool that allows you to schedule tweets, track keywords and view mentions and retweets.  There are also a range of extended features in the Professional plan.

TwitLonger:  For when you can’t fit what you want to say in 140 characters.

Tweriod:  This is another tool that can tell you when your followers are online the most and therefore when is the best time for you to tweet.

Twilert: Sends you an email alert when any keyword that you have set up appears in a tweet.  This can be your business name, product or service or keyword such as “help with social media”.   This is a good tool to use if you’re using Twitter to manage customer service as you can keep track of mentions of your business name. 

ManageFlitter:  Helps you to manage your followers, eg you can find out who isn’t following you back and see which inactive accounts you follow too.  You can then choose to unfollow these accounts if you wish.

These are just a short selection of Twitter tools that you can use to restrict the time you spend on managing your Twitter account.  If you’ve got any other suggestions then please feel free to leave them in the comment box below.

If you’re new to Twitter and want some further help on how to set up and manage your Twitter account then download our free guide “How to Use Twitter for Business“.

How to Grow Your Business with Twitter Search

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As I’ve mentioned before in previous blogs, Twitter is a great way to promote your services and products online and get your name out there to a wider audience.  But how can you use it to effectively target people who are interested in your business?  Well, welcome to Twitter search!

Twitter has a fantastic search facility that few people know about or use.  If you know that there are people on Twitter who may be interested in buying your services and products, then wouldn’t you like to find and engage with them?  Well, find out how you can search on Twitter for your target market.

First of all, go to search.twitter.com – ignore the search box and click on Advanced Search instead, as this is where the search facility really comes into its own.  You’ll see that there are various options of how to search for keywords and people.  It’s best to be as specific as you can when searching words and phrases, so use the “This exact phrase” box to do this.  You can either use the search to look for types of people, eg accountants, web designers etc, or for people with specific problems.  For example, if you’re offering IT support, you might put in a search term such as “My PC has just crashed” or “My PC is slow today”.  You can then filter these keywords by people, location, attitudes etc.

When you have set up a search then click OK and you’ll get a timeline of the most recent results if there are any.  You can then set up an RSS feed for this search, or if you use HootSuite or TweetDeck to manage Twitter, then you can set up streams within these applications for your different search terms.

The result is that you can keep track of people’s conversations that relate to your search terms, and then quickly respond to any enquiries.  By doing this, you will come across as someone who is proactive, engages with others and knows what they’re talking about.  This will gain you recognition and status, and people will want to follow you, and by following you, they will get to know and like you, and potentially start doing business with you.

So keep one step ahead of your competitors by using this fantastic Twitter tool that enables you to engage and build relationships with people who are interested in your business!