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Become Social Networking Guru With 45 Handy Twitter Tools

Preview-twitter-toolsTwitter has progressed so much in past few years and now it has been used almost by everybody – let it be freelancer designer, programmer, social media company, printing company, everybody evaluates Twitter power and actually try to make their brand more powerful with it.

A lot of tools has been developed over time and some of them can really relief your Twitter experience and automate some time consuming actions. That’s why I collected some great tools sorted in categories, which you might find extremely useful for usingTwitter – find more targeted followers, track visitors – who is following, not following, deadbeat users, clean your account – ah..check what we have on table this time yourself!

Follower Tools

1. Mr Tweet

Mr Tweet is your personal Twitter assistant.Discover greatpeople you might want to follow, join communities and share your Twitter buddies.

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2. TweetBeep

Get regular updates to your email with conversation trackings, mentions, followers. You can even keep trackofwhos tweeting your website or blog.

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3. FlashTweet

FlashTweet is a Twitter application that simplifies the process of acquiring more targeted followers. You can add multiple Twitter accounts to your profile, discover who you are following that is following you back, mass follow users based on search terms and location, unfollow multiple friends at once, schedule tweets in advance to run throughout the week, insert RSS feeds that will automatically tweet the title and link of your blog or another site.

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4. Friend or Follow

Useful and easily usable tool to see whore you following, thats not following you back and conversely.

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5. WeFollow

Enter tags and find new people to follow. You can add yourself to the database too.

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6. Nearby Tweets

Find new people to follow based on location.

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7. Tweepler

Tweepler is a much needed and more intuitive way of processing your Twitter followers. It allows you to quickly browse trough people you might be interested in, then follow or ignore them.

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8. Tweepsect

See users followers and those he follows to determine who is stalking theuser and who the user is stalking

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9. Twitter Friends Network Browser

Browse trough your friends, your friends friends and so.

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10. Twitter DMer

Twitter DMer is a tool to impress your followers with individually customized DMs.

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11. Twit Cleaner

Analyses the people you follow, identifies the time wasters, spammers, bots & those who’ve quit Twitter.

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Stats

1. Twitter Grader

Twitter Grader is a free tool that allows you to check the power of your twitter profile compared to millions of other users that have been graded.

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2. Tweet Stats

Get detailed stats of your tweets.

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3. Twitter Analyzer

Analyze someones tweet stats, popularity, reach, hashtags, subjects and more.

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4. Twoorl

Get all neccesary stats about your acount. Its still in beta, so youll have to follow @twoolr_beta.

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Trends and Topics

1. Tweetmeme

Find most popular links in Twitter, sorted in categories.

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2. Summize

Search for tweets, keywoard, users and much more.

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3. Topsy

Search engine powered by tweets.

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4. Trendistic

Trendistic is a tool that allows you to track trends on Twitter, similarly to what Google Trends does for Google searches. It gathers tweets as they are posted, filters redundant ones and compiles the rest into one-hour intervals.

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Tweets

1. Twuffer

Twuffer allows the Twitter user to compose a list of future tweets, and schedule their release.

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2. GroupTweet

GroupTweet turns a standard Twitter account into a group communication hub where members can post updates to everyone in the group using direct messages. When the group account receives a direct message from a group member, GroupTweet converts it into a tweet that all followers can see.

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3. Twiddict

Twiddict sends your tweets to Twitter even if its down.

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4. Runt.ly

Runt.ly is the easiest way to create short blog-style posts to share over Twitter and other micro-blogs. Runt.ly posts can include linked photos, embedded videos and more.

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5. Bigtwitt

BigTwitt will create URL for your long tweet and then youll be able to post it.

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Bloggers

1. Twitter Feed

Add RSS feeds and it automaticcly posts the headlines to Twitter.

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2. Twitter Tools

Twitter Tools is a plugin that creates a complete integration between your WordPress blog and your Twitter account.

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Sharing

1. Bit.ly

Shorten URLs, share them, track them.

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2. Twitpic

Upload and share photos on Twitter.

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3. Twitvid

Upload and share vidoes on Twitter.

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4. Twittload

Free file hosting for Twitter.

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5. Twitter Music

Find and share music on Twitter.

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6. Twitsay

Record voice message and post it to your followers.

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7. Twitcam

Broadcast live, your followers can see you and you can chat with them. After that video will be saved in archive.

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Twitter Clients

1. Tweetdeck

TweetDeck is your personal browser for staying in touch with whats happening now, connecting you with your contacts across Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn and more. Connect with your Facebook and MySpace friends directly from TweetDeck by updating your status, posting photos or videos, commenting, liking and groups your friends to make it easier to follow only those you really want to see what your friends are doing by creating columns for each of your groups of friends. Available also on iPhone, iPod Touchand iPad.

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2. Seesmic

Available on almost all most popular platforms, one of the best Twitter clients. Update and view multiple social networks in one efficient but powerful application customized to your needs.

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3. Destroy Twitter

DestroyTwitter is a compact though robust Twitter application built to run on Mac, Windows, and Linux using Adobe AIR.

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4. Tweetie

Available on Mac and iPhone. Great software with a lot of features.

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Other

1. Ping

Update your social networks all at the same time.

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2. Screenr

Easily create screencasts with web based recorder and tweet them to your followers.

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3. Tinychat

Create a Twitter chatroom or video conference.

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4. Twt Poll

Create free polls and get annswers from Twitter users.

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5. Twibbon

Twibbon is the easiest and most powerful way to promote awareness of your cause on Twitter.

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6.

Twitpay

Send funds to other Twitter accounts.

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7. Tweetmart

Think of tweetmart as classifieds for Twitter. It is a free an easy way to buy and sell “stuff” or search and post jobs on Twitter.

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8. Backupify

Backupify provides daily automatic backups, archiving, and export for all your social media and SaaS data.

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The Beginner’s Guide to BuddyPress (Open Source Social Networking)

BuddyPress is plugin that adds social network like abilities to the acclaimed CMS WordPress. Adding features like a better profile for your blogs writers which combined turn it into a fully fledged social networking site. Most of the possibly for this great plugin arent even existent yet! As more and more sites start to use BuddyPress its true power, and that of WordPress is astonishing.

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Despite all this BuddyPress isnt too hard to set up and use. In its early days a BuddyPress install required WPMU to run on, although since 1.2 thats all changed, as BuddyPress can now run on a single WordPress install.

BuddyPress adds the following functionality to WordPress.

Activity Streams: Members can follow the activity of their friends or groups on your site.

Extended Profiles: The default WordPress profiles don’t even compare to these ones. The profiles can include friends, activity, groups, the latest posts by the member, a profile bio, and contact info, and that’s only the default options!

Friends: Members can add each other as friends, this allows them to communicate and track each other easily.

Private Messaging: Allows members to message each other privately so discussion doesn’t have to be “out in the open”.

Groups: Members can create and join groups on whatever topics they like.

Blogging: BuddyPress can tap into the power of WPMU and as of WordPress 3, multi-site therefore allowing you to give all of your users a fully functioning WordPress blog, the blog is integrated into the activity stream, and members can post on the blogs using their own account for your site.

These features can be turned on or off in the Admin Panel depending on how many of them you want to use for your site.

As BuddyPress is built as a normal WordPress plugin its extremely easy to customize to your liking and needs, if you know the basics of WordPress plugin development then you should be able to develop for it with only an extra bit of work, referring to the BuddyPress Codex or Support Forum

You can download BuddyPress here on the official site, which also includes support for the plugin as well as being the main place for BuddyPress discussion and development.

As powerful as BuddyPress is here is some useful plugins that you may like to consider adding to your site. Most plugins that work for a normal WordPress site should work for your BuddyPress site, although there are many great plugins that require BuddyPress to function correctly.

With a massive 172 plugins currently on BuddyPress.org Ive selected 10 plugins I think that are extremely useful.

10 Extremely Useful BuddyPress Plugins

BP Profile Privacy

Allows your users to decide who can view their profile

BuddyPress Links
Adds link & rich media sharing functionality to your site. Can really help boost your sites activity and discussion.
BuddyPress Gifts

Allows your members to send each other images as gifts. Site Admins can add / remove different gifts as they like.

BuddyPress Album+

Adds photo album capabilities to your site much like Facebook photo apps. Comes with plenty of options, although its recommended to test this plugin before use as there are a few known issues.

Tweetstream

Integrates twitter into your BuddyPress site, allowing members to post links of their activity on your site, to twitter.

Facestream

Integrates Facebook into your BuddyPress site, allowing members to post links of their activity on your site, to Facebook.

Enhanced BuddyPress Widgets

Adds two new widgets that you can use, members and groups allowing newest, Active and most Popular members or groups to be shown.

CubePoints Buddypress Integration

Allows members to earn points as a reward for taking part in the site, (requires CubePoints to work).

BuddyPress Followers

Works in the same way as the friends feature of BuddyPress except members dont need to accept other members in order to be followed. Works the same as twitter.

BuddyPress Template Pack

Adds BuddyPress support to a normal WordPress theme. Allowing you to use any WordPress theme you like without needing to customise it to work with BuddyPress.

5 Great BuddyPress themes

Although the default theme is a great looking theme, here are 5 more great themes to choose from.

Buddymatic

BuddyPress theme framework, is based on Thematic a WordPress theme framework.

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Jukt Micronics

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Randy Candy

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BuddyPress Magazine

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What’s Up Next here on 1stWD?

This article was our first post in the BuddyPress series which gave you an introduction to BuddyPress. If you are not satisfied with the themes we listed here, feel free to browser the directory of themes over at BuddyPress official website or just wait for the 2nd article of series, in which we will show you how to create your own theme from scratch.

Have some question or confusion? Shout at us via comments section.:)

Jeans Social Media Icon Set

This Free Icon Pack is for use in your personal and commercial projects, and can be used without attribution. It may not be redistributed.

Jeans Icon Set is a package of 17 Social media icons which is specially designed in Jeans style. The set of icon is suitable to be used in Design projects, Blogs, Websites and Social Bookmarking applications. It comes in PNG File, 6464 px, 128128 px, and the .PSD file is also included.

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Included in the set are:

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  • Ddelicious Icon
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  • Digg Icon
  • FaceBook Icon
  • Flickr Icon
  • G-talk Icon
  • MySpace Icon
  • Netvibes Icon
  • Newsvine Icon
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  • Rss Icon
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