Almost Everything But the Tweet – Conquering Twitter (offsite connections)
Are offsite connections possibly via Twitter? The semi-surprising answer is: yes. Because Twitter is so bare bones, any number of applications have sprung up around it in order to help you manage it and become as great as you can be.
Understanding the people you tweet with is, of course, a great way to determine if offsite connections are going to be worth it. After all, offsite connections that are hundreds of miles away are not likely to be easy, cheap, or even possible.
Other Software
Here are some more sites to check out:
- HootSuite – a tweet scheduling service (and more) whereby you can track stats and import your lists.
- Social Oomph (formerly TweetLater) – time tweets and gather simple metrics on shortened urls. You can set up more than one account this way.
- Tweet Stats – a graph of, among other things, daily aggregate tweets, your most popular hours to tweet and who you retweet.
- Tweepsmap – analytics and info on who unfollowed or followed you.
- Twopcharts – look up clout, followers, etc.
- Twiends – ways to grow followers responsibly
- Legal Birds – find lawyers on Twitter.
- Twitter Packs – find like-minded Twitter users (since this is a wiki, it depends on users to keep it up to date).
Offsite Connections: The Upshot
As Twitter continues to mature as a business tool, I predict that more and more of these off-site services will spring up. But understand that a number of older ones from just a few years ago are gone.
The most successful one will, in my opinion, combine the best features of all, coupled with ease of use and an ability to show trends over time.
And finally, Twitter changes things almost as much and as fast as Facebook does. So keep in mind, these instructions may need some tweaking.
Oh, and if you do actually see or even meet your Twitter connections, you’ll get to see if their imagery accurately reflects who they are!