Need To Know: Basic Twitter Apps, Services

August 6th, 2009

**A work in progress – Feel free to suggest your favorite basic (or advanced) Twitter app/service by leaving it in a comment. Thanks!**

Tweetdeck – A Twitter client that organizes your direct messages, mentions and stream into separate columns. You can set up additional columns that follow certain friends or search terms. I’ve had trouble with Tweetdeck not keeping track of all of my friends, but that problem sounds pretty rare.

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Tweetlater – Have a lot to say, but not always around to say it? Try Tweetlater – the perfect way to schedule Tweets throughout the day.

How to find folks to follow:

Twitter Search – Click on “Advanced Search” and you’ll find a number of fields you can search by. Search for people chatting about a certain event or topic, or find friends who live in your area.

Twellow – The so-called Twitter Yellow Pages – a great way to find friends by interest.

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