• Tweepular helps you “cleanse” your Twitter account of followers “unworthy” of your attention. Get rid of people who only tweet once in a blue moon and dust up your folowers list.
• TwitterContd lets you break free from the “140 characters or less” barrier that Twitter had imposed on you.
• TwAitter schedules your tweets for later. Comes with an impressive outlook style calender system.
• BigTweet lets you use it as a bookmarklet on your browser to share stuff that iterests you on web. Simply highlight the text that interests you, and BigTweet will automatically capture the page title and shorten the URL for you to post it on Twitter.
• HootSuite.com helps you manage all your twitter accounts at one place. If you have multiple twitter accounts, then I highly recommend this App which will help you get the most out of multiple accounts.
• TweetLater.com helps you auto-follow people that follow you, send automated welcome direct messages, and gives you the option to e-mail yourself tweets with specific keywords that you want to follow.
• TweetOClock.com has a pretty simple and a straight purpose. Use it to find the best time to tweet someone you know.
• Tweetizen lets you create groups for people that matter to you and digest the daily influx of tweets coming on your way to find the tweets that truly matter to you.

Comment and let me know if you have any other suggestions as well.

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I’ve seen account with 4000+ followers generally going for around $1000+, when listed on eBay. You can get a round figure on what’ it’s worth from WhatsYourTweetWorth. But, unless something convinces you to get rid of your Twitter Account, that’s not likely to happen right?

So, the obvious monetization moves would be to get your profile sponsored. You know, throw in a small banner in the background, send a promo tweet once every 30th Tweet, and so on. And obviously, “how much” would depend on how popular you’re on Twitter. That is, how many followers you are having and so on.

Of course, trying to find advertisers can prove to be a hassle. Doing it on eBay should be relatively easy, but you’re not guaranteed of an advertiser. And this is an instance where you can make use of services like Twittad. Not everyone would want to sell their profiles through a 3rd party, but it’s really convenient provided that you don’t want to search for advertisers yourself.

The idea of monetizing a Twitter Account still is a relatively alien idea to most of the people. But with the exponential growth of Twitter, I guess it won’t be that much of a big idea when more and more people start doing it. Nevertheless, an extra few bucks couldn’t possibly hurt, yeah?

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So here’s the thing. I was doing a random search for my name on Google and guess what I got..!

So, that was my photo, my identity in a social site – Delver – that I never signed up for. And as you can see from the screenshot, to get in I just have to ‘claim’ my profile – as easy as that sounds.

From the looks of it, i can be pretty sure that they scraped off my identity from my public profile at Digg. You know – because there’s a direct link to my Digg profile there.

Anyway, just think for a second. A person Googling his/her name randomly has a pretty good chance of checking the search result out and then ‘claiming’ their profiles on this social site. Wouldn’t you? This might not be the only place this tactic had been used to get more user signups, but it’s surely done in a massive scale. And as a result, thousands of people who wouldn’t have joined otherwise have found their place in this site.

I guess what I’m trying to say is that in an over-exhausted niche like this, a simple idea that had been a product of ‘thinking outside the box’ had put Delver on a very visible spot in the large web 2.0 map. I’ll have to give it up for them.., for that.

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Anyway, these are some really useful Web Apps I’m using presently. And I hope that you will find them equally useful – or better. 

tweetreplies.com – Does the simple task of e-mailing you when you have an @ replying waiting for you at Twitter. You can periodically set these e-mails to be sent and with this, hopefully, you will not miss any of the action.

Tweetvisor.com – A simple dashboard to keep track of what’s going on, around the world, as seen by the Twitterers!

TwitExplorer.com – Manage the people whom you follow, who follows you and find new interesting people that you can follow accrding to your interests and so on.

twtpoll.com – I always wanted to create polls with Twitter. You know, it’s a platform that I can maintain a large number of friend circles and family, and it’s probably the best place to get the popular opinion. And twtpoll does that for you! It lets you conduct polls in Twitter and organizes the data in charts and etc for easy comparison.

Friend Or Follow – Want to find out the people whom your are following and who are not following you back (or vice versa)? Friend or Follow is exactly what you’re looking for!

Twonvo.com – View your Twitter Conversations as a thread – making it easy to follow a conversation and not have to search for each @reply individually. A really useful tool for those of you who use Twitter extensively for conversing.

Tweetmarks.com – Integrate your Twitter account with your del.ico.us bookmarks. Automatically save and categorize the links you tweet about, and automatically add them so that you can keep track of the stuff that find most interesting.

Twilert – Have a Blog, a Product or a Startup? Twilert is a Twitter application that lets you receive regular email updates of tweets containing your brand, product, service, for any keyword that you specify! Now you can discreetly follow everything that everyone is saying about the things that matter to you…

Oh, and let’s follow each other back! Follow me, @nadzmc and give me a shout!

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Well, the easiest answer to this question would be – “It depends on you needs”.

For the average person just wanting to maintain a personal journal and not take the whole “blogging for money thing” really seriously and who just want to leave out the technical jargon of the equation, I’d say blog communities would be a better choice.

Thoughts.com is one of those considerably large blog communities that are noteworthy here. Thoughts.com offers many features that wouldn’t necessarily be found on a free blog community, including unlimited bandwidth. Uploading photos to your own photo album, sharing community hosted videos, having your own podcast, conducting online polls with your friends, connecting with other community members on a forum, and most importantly, connecting with friends with similar interests is all inclusive in your free membership.

So, for a person with “not much” technical know-how trying to implement a membership site with forums and all that to connect with friends, do podcasts and etc can be fairly hard. Fortunately, networks like thoughts.com make it fairly easy for them.

And also, joining a blog community can be a fairly easy way of connecting with like minded individuals in comparison to other blog platforms, thanks for features like intra-community groups.

Although a blog community like thoughts.com offers all these features, sometimes it’s likely that the lack of flexibility may drive the visitors to individual blog platforms. But as I said, if you just want to have a “personal journal” kind of thing and want to test the waters of a potential time consuming hobby, then yeah, you will find thoughts.com very appealing.

Take their tour or Create Blog now.

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When Plurk came out, I found it as a fun, innovative way of keeping in touch with friends – so, I just had to try it out. But it was impossible really hard to make sure the functioning of my Twitter account as well as the Plurk.

Why?

But first, why would a blogger like me a trying to make money should be concerned about keeping both of these functional? Because it’s killer traffic! You post something and announce it onto your followers on Twitter or Plurk! The interested ones will check it out – which will significantly bring you a lot of exposure provided that you have a targeted set of followers, great in numbers too…

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So, how do you do it?

I agree that Plurk and Twitter have their differences. But, their primary concept is the same., right? And by the way, I wasn’t even thinking of letting my Twitter account go like most of the others did. So, my only option was to make sure that both of them go parallel. I don’t lead a double life:), so I had to find a way to make sure Twitter and Plurk both are synchronized simultaneously according to my status. And that’s when I found Ping.fm! Simply said,

Use AIM, GTalk, iGoogle, WAP, iPhone/iPod Touch, SMS or E-mail and let Ping.fm relay your message to a multitude of social networking sites.

So, what I do now is that I keep Ping.fm on my IM client and update it as necessary so that my Plurk, Twitter and Facebook accounts get updated. But, Ping.fm supports many social networking sites other than those 3.

But, watch out!

But it’s only fair that I make you aware of the drawbacks of using this service. First, these services are about collaborating with people. Especially when you update Twitter or Plurk, you are bound to get some replies – but if you just keep it to Ping.fm, you will never see the replies. It’s totally cool if you want to post to all of them at the same time, but check back from time to time (depends on the number of your followers) to respond to the people who replied.

Hey! It’s social media mate:) Spammers die quick!

If you want to automate the posting from your blog when a new blog post is added, I recommend using PingPress.fm plugin for Wordpress. Hope you will find this new service useful.

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Well, in the beginning there was darkness, then came Twitter. It was the next big thing that everyone was talking about and was quite an addiction to the scores of people who were not eating, breathing, sleeping and even dreaming without posting on Twitter. And then, things started to get a bit ugly as the outages on Twitter, kept the whole Twitter community in dark for too long. That was till there was a new bird on the block – Plurk!

Plurk came at the right time with the right formula. All the people who had it with the dysfunctional Twitter civilization found a new promised land on Plurk. They planted their flag there and had been enjoying the unexhausted-yet servers of Plurk.

So, you all will agree that, in a nutshell, that’s what happened. Whatever said and done, most of us were getting weary about the outages in Twitter and we were a bit dependent on it for our social interactions. When Twitter let us down too many times for too long, the best option was to call it quits for most of us.

By reading some reviews of Plurk, we bloggers tend to have the impression that Plurk indeed has the power to beat Twitter. And by comparing the two, most of the reviews, put Plurk on a higher level than Twitter. But if I had to do a review on it, I wouldn’t necessarily put Plurk on a higher level. Why? While certainly giving kudos to Plurk for their most innovative approach, I do feel that Plurk and Twitter tend to have two different formulae.

To make a long story short, there will always be people who have established themselves on Twitter and will find it hard to do the same thing on Plurk anytime soon. For that sole reason, they will tend to hang around Twitter much more than they would like to.

Secondly, and most importantly, there will be a bunch of users who will always appreciate the simplicity that Twitter offers. What we shouldn’t forget is that simplicity of Twitter was one of the factors largely attributed to it’s long term success. It’s not that the people behind Twitter didn’t want to add new features – it’s just that the Twitter framework doesn’t allow much to be done without actually hurting it’s simplicity, which many love – subconsciously.

So, there lies the big question – Can Plurk beat Twitter at it’s own game? If the current trends continue, yes! Not necessarily because Plurk is better or anything – but because, when Twitter goes down, they need a new Twitter., and that seems to be Plurk.

I love Plurk and I have been an active user since it came out. But I didn’t let go of Twitter as a result. I still love the idea of going to a movie store and sending a text message to my Twitter account to ask my followers what’s the latest DVD release that they would recommend. Plurk can do that for me in the most efficient way imaginable, only that it’s a bit too complex for simple SMS’s to handle.

But I do agree. Plurk has got some serious potential. Let’s hope that it doesn’t keep us in the dark like Twitter did though ironically, at this time the post is being written, it says “Plurk is currently under routine maintenance, We apologize for the inconvenience”.

By the way, if you’re on Twitter or Plurk, let’s be friends!

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So now, let’s take a look at where and how the aggression pays off.

MyBlogLog

Since my account had become inaccessible in BlogCatalog for no apparent reason, I’ve concentrated my efforts fully on Yahoo!’s MyBlogLog. And can’t say it hadn’t WOW!ed me. Backlinks are great. And the traffic? Awesome!

The simple but effective method here is to use the “Friender” service and add as many friends as you can, and at the same time, register all your social networking accounts with MyBlogLog. After doing so, every time you do something on other sites, MyBlogLog will update your friend’s social feed. For an instance, if you post on your blog or Twitter something, it will say “This user posted this on his/her blog” or “This user twittered: something”, in all of your friends’ social feeds.

If you have 300 friends, then it’s like having 300 (give or take a few) potential subscribers to your blog, twitter followers and social media friends, on MyBlogLog and beyond.

Twitter

I’ve seen many people following a zillion of other people hoping that they would return the favor on Twitter. But the fact of the matter is that most of them won’t. But there are effective ways of significantly increasing your odds of being followed. And this is one such method.

You know, companies like IZEA or campaigns like ObamaCampaign follow a mass number of people on Twitter, hoping that they would follow back. Sometimes they do, and sometimes, they don’t. But if someone indeed followed IZEA on Twitter, just because IZEA started following them at the first place, then there’s a high chance that, that particular user believes in reciprocal following.

So, this is the secret. If you’re a blogger in the MMO niche, and you want to maximize your exposure through Twitter, you can follow a good number of people following IZEA, (IZEA is the company behind PayPerPost and SocialSpark) and you will be getting a good number of followers interested in what you’re blogging about. If you’re a political blogger, do the same with ObamaCampaign and you’ll get some good targeted followers.

So, feel free to experiment and let me know how it goes.

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Well, it’s here – the MyBlogLog friend connector.

You can find this tool in the “add/manage friends” section of your MyBlogLog profile.

To make a long story short, As you can see in the image above, it conveniently lists all your friends and their available social media listings. If they are listed in a certain network, a ‘+’ is displayed and if not an ‘X’. One click on the ‘+’ will bring you to their profile on that network, so you can make a connection to them there., with just one click.

Although many bloggers prefer BlogCatalog over MyBlogLog, this recent addition and the addition of MyBlogLog Friender truly helps bloggers to get the most of their social media promotions. MBL Connector is still in beta, but it’s in a pretty stable state. ROCKFUSE recommendation? Definitely!

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Twhirl – This is probably the best Twitter client for Windows out there. Let’s you post Tweets from the PC, sort Direct Messages and Replies, shorten URLs and so forth. If you’re looking for a Twitter client, this is my personal recommendation.

Twitter Tools – Integrate your blog into Twitter. Create Tweets from your latest blog posts and create blog posts from your latest Tweets.

Twittervision – Let’s you see where your friends Tweet from, by displaying their location on a World map.

Twitter Flashlite – Post Tweets from your mobile device. Uses a data connection through a WAP interface so no need to send SMSs to Twitter.

Post To Twitter – Update Twitter using your Firefox search bar. Doesn’t get any easier than that!

TwitterBuzz – Let’s you see what’s creating the buzz. This tool gets the URLs from Tweets and lists the most Tweeted ones so you can check out what’s creating the buzz in the Twitter-o-sphere.

AutoTwit – Put your Twittering on autopilot. Try it out… Half of the people will absolutely love it, the other half will absolutely hate it!

Twadget – A Twitter sidebar gadget for Windows Vista – need I say more?

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