The Ultimate Collection of FREE Twitter Tools

Twitter has become an incredible tool for social and business communications. Professionals can use it to expand current business, promote a side business, keep information organized, and more. Whether you want to achieve your Twitter goals, or just use it as a tool to achieve others, these tools will help you get there.

One of the greatest things about Twitter is it’s open API, allowing several different applications to enhance your experience in researching data or utilizing it’s services better with additional resources, depending on your goals. This list is continuously updated.

Pick of the week is DM Whacker a toolbar extension, allowing you remove spam in your DM box. Our Darren Williger stumled upon this when frustrated unable to read DMs from friends. Interesting (as always, use at your own risk) tool that’s proved helpful.

Data Analysis and Statistics

For business, it’s essential to be able to track your goals. These tools will not only let you measure your tweeting aspects, but you can use these tools to become more influential:

1. Twitter Analyzer: Easy to use and understand interface, very cool stats.
2. Twitalyzer: Rate your Tweeting influence and see areas to improve.
3. Twitter Grader: Discover your Twitter grade, local Elite, and new people.
4. Twitterholic: Check out top Twitter users and find out your stats on Twitterholic.
5. TweetStats: TweetStats offers a graphical analysis of your Twitter stats.
6. Twitter Friends: Measuring your Twitter conversations using Twitter Friends.
7. Twinfluence: Shows detail of influence based on reach, velocity, and social capital.
8. Tweetwasters: Find out how much time you and other users waste on Twitter.
9. Tweet-Rank: Discover which of your tweets earned new or lost followers.
10. Mr. Milestone: Get tweets when you reach follower milestones using this tool.
11. Mr. Landmark: Just like Mr. Milestone, you get notified about your landmarks.
12. Retweetrank: Learn how many retweets you and other Twitter users have.

Business & Finance

Use these tools to improve your business and finances through Twitter.

1. Chipin: Set goal and let supporters track the progress of fundraising campaigns.
2. Xpenser: You can Twitter your expenses to Xpenser and they will be recorded.
3. Twittertise: Track tweets and clickthroughs with this app for Twitter advertising.
4. TwtQpon: Create simple Twitter coupons for your business with TwtQpon.
5. CheapTweet: Get deals, sales, coupons and more on Twitter through CheapTweet.
6. Tipjoy: Like Chipin, Tipjoy offers social payments for cause, content, or people.
7. SalesTwit: Get contact management for Twitter with the help of SalesTwit.
8. Tweet What You Spend: Track your cash easily and effectively here.
9. StockTwits: StockTwits shares the investment discussions on Twitter in real time.

Follower/Followee Management

Delete spammers, unmutual followers, infrequent tweeters, etc.

1. DM Whacker: Tool for easily clean DMs based on keywords!
2. Tweepular: This site claims to help boost your Tweepularity.
3. MyTweeple: Tools to help you make more intelligent follow decisions.
4. Mutuality: Mass unfollow/follow tool – simple and effective.
5. MyCleenr: Sort friends by their last tweets, and get rid of the inactive accounts.
6. Twitter Karma: Tool lets you see avatars of followers/followees.
7. FriendorFollow: At a glance who is following or who you are not
8. Twitoria: Finding your friends that haven’t tweeted in a long time.
9. Buzzom: New kid on the block, includes adding new friends too!
10. Tweepler: Use Tweepler to organize tweeps based on followings.

Network Building & Management

Find more relevant Twitter users with the help of these tools.

1. Twitter Local: You can see tweets from Twitter users in a specific location.
2. Twubble: Expand your Twitter bubble, picking out new people to follow.
3. Follow Cost: This tool will tell you how much effort it takes to follow someone.
4. Just Tweet It: Find Tweeple, tools, Twitter bots and more through this directory.
5. SocialToo: Automates following and unfollowing people who unfollowed you.
6. TwitDir: Search people and explore categories including top followers and updaters.
7. Who Should I Follow?: You can get good recommendations for Tweeps to follow.
8. TweetWheel: Discover which of your Twitter friends know each other.
9. WhoFollowsWhom: Put up to 5 friends and see who they have in common.
10. Nearbytweets: Discover users in a specific area with the help of Nearbytweets.
11. Twellow: Find Twitter users in a specific industry using this service.
12. Mr. Tweet: A personal networking assistant, helping you find relevant followers.
13. Qwitter: Helps you manage your network by sending alerts when you are unfollowed.
14. We Follow: We Follow is a new type of list, helping you find targeted followers.

Information Gathering

With these tools, you gather information for market research, blog posts, or simple curiosity.

1. Tweetbeep: Setup alerts that will help you keep track of specific keywords.
2. TweetNews: TweetNews ranks stories based on the amount of related tweets.
3. TwitterBuzz: TwitterBuzz will tell you what’s being linked to the most on Twitter.
4. Tweetscan: Set up to make sure you don’t miss @replies, and to get search queries.
5. @myflightinfo: Use @myflightinfo to stay updated on your flight’s status.
6. Twitterverse: Check out archived timelines and tweets through Twitterverse.
7. Twitscoop: Twitscoop shares what’s hot on Twitter at any given moment.
8. Twitbuzz: Twitbuzz tracks the latest conversations as well as popular Twitter links.
9. StrawPoll: Use to make sharing your opinion as easy as sending an @reply.
10. Retweetist: This service ranks the hottest links being retweeted on Twitter.
11. Monitter: Get real time keyword monitoring on Twitter from Monitter.

Twitter Management

Save your time and cull your Twitter list with the help of these tools.

1. Future Tweets: Schedule tweets for different times in the future.
2. Summize: Retrieve information on Twitter quickly to search Twitter in real time.
3. Tweet O’Clock: Trying to reach someone? Find the best time to get their attention.
4. Just Signal: Set up a filter to get only the tweets that discuss the keywords you like.
5. TweepSearch: Search your followers for specific parameters.
6. TwitResponse: You can schedule the delivery of your tweets ahead of time.
7. TwitterSnooze: Put pause button on a particular user with Twitter Snooze.
8. Twitterless: Get notified when someone stops following you with Twitterless.
9. Twilert: Track specific keywords to receive alerts for using Twilert.
10. Tweetdeck: Helps you more efficiently follow the people you really want to.
11. Twalala: Mute button for people and topics you’re not really interested in.

Sharing Tools

Promote your business, connect with friends, share photos, and more with these tools.

1. Blip.fm: This allows you to share MP3 and Youtube music.
2. Tweetburner: Use Tweetburner to share links, and you can track their usage.
3. Twitpic: Simple to share mobile phone photos using your Twitter account.
4. TwitterHawk: Get targeted marketing on Twitter through TwitterHawk.
5. Acamin: Acamin makes it easy to share files on Twitter with your followers.
6. Glue: Post books, movies, restaurants and more links through Glue.
7. Ping.fm: This service will update all of your social networks at once.
8. TweeTube: TweeTube makes it easy to share videos on Twitter.
9. twiggit: Use this automated service to share the articles you digg on Twitter.
10. Twisten.fm: Share what you’re listening to on Twitter through Twisten.fm.

Organization & Productivity

These Twitter tools help make your life a bit more streamlined.

1. Jott: Tweet without having to type, transcribing voice message to Twitter.
2. Twittercal: Link Twitter and Google Calendar events and appointments.
3. Timer: Use Timer to get reminders through your Twitter account.
4. TwitterNotes: Organize your notes using Twitter with TwitterNotes.
5. Remember the Milk: Use Remember the Milk to update to do lists.
6. Tweetake: Back up your Twitter timeline for archiving and more.
7. Nozbe: Nozbe makes it easy to add and update your to do list on Twitter.
8. Toodledo: This popular to do list app integrates nicely with Twitter.
9. TrackThis: Send tracking number, and get messages on changes in location.
10. Joint Contact: Project management productivity on Twitter using Joint Contact.
11. Tempo: This time tracking tool allows you to send in updates from Twitter.
12. OutTwit: OutTwit will make it easy for you to use Twitter inside of Outlook.

Life Tools

With these tools, you can work on relationships, life tracking, and more.

1. DreamTweet: Log your dreams and nightmares, and follow dreams of others.
2. MyMileMarker: Keep track of your mileage every time you fill up.
3. 21Tweets: 21Tweets offers personal coaching on Twitter.
4. TwtTRIP: Organize your travel plans and find other Twitter travelers.
5. Tweet Answers: Makes it easy to ask questions and get answers on Twitter.
6. Twtvite: Twtvite is a simple event organizer that will help you create a tweetup.
7. Vacatweet: Set up an autoresponder for your Twitter account with Vacatweet.
8. plusplusbot: Share when someone goes out of their way to help you to share.
9. TrackDailyGoals: Use with #dailygoals hashtag to keep track of your daily goals.
10. ConnectTweet: Combine the voices of your group or business ConnectTweet.
11. Tweeteorology: Find tweets about weather in any location through Tweeteorology.

Food & Health

Track your diet and health activities with these Twitter tools.

1. Qwitter: Update Qwitter to shame yourself into quitting smoking.
2. TweetPlot: Use TweetPlot to chart your food and fitness statistics.
3. Tweetwhatyoueat: Keep a food diary to track what you’re eating everyday.
4. gtFtr: Use the gtFtr tool to record your exercise activity on Twittr.
5. SugarStats: Track, monitor, and share blood sugar through Twitter with SugarStats.
6. FoodFeed: Twitter-based food log makes it easy for you to track what you’re eating.

Blogging

Bring your blog life and Twitter life together with these tools.

1. Add to Any: Get posts shared on Twitter by using with your WordPress blog.
2. TwitThis: Make use of this plugin to send Twitter messages about your blog post.
3. MyTwitter: Use the MyTwitter plugin to display your Twitter status on WordPress.
4. Twitpress: Twitpress will send out a Tweet every time you post a new blog entry.
5. TwitterCounter: Plugin to display the number of followers you have on Twitter.
6. TwitterFeed: Announce your blog post on Twitter with a customized message.

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