5 Fun Twitter Sites to Explore

So you’ve figured out the Twitter thing and you’re ready to explore a bit more. There are dozens of great tools and sites that poke around in the Twitter world and I wanted to pick out a few of my favorites and share them with you. If you hover your mouse over each site’s name you will see a screenshot of that site. Enjoy!

1. Twellow is like the Yellow Pages only for Twitter. Twellow allows you to create a profile page as well as search for other tweeps using various search functions. You can also follow people that you find on Twellow directly from their site.
2. Bit.ly is a URL shortener that allows you to take long URL’s and shrink them down to give you more room in a tweet. I know that many tools like Tweetdeck (see No. 3) have an automatic shortener built in, but Bit.ly allows you track the number of clicks on your link and a few other nice features.
3. TweetDeck is a fabulous tool that integrates the best functions of Twitter and Facebook on one platform. It also has many extras including a built in URL shortener, ability to add photos and videos to tweets, and a translator. This tool is a must have for for the avid Twitter/Facebook user.
4. BackTweets allows you to enter a URL and see who’s tweeted that link on Twitter. It nice to see if someone tweeted your blog or your company’s website and it even can track the URL if it’s been shortened by a URL shortener!
5. TwitterSheep is just a fun tool to see that your tweeps have in common. It generates a tag cloud of your tweeps’ bio information.
Look for future posts on other applications and sites as I find and explore them!
@GabrielGlynn

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~ by gabrielglynn on December 1, 2009.