Twitter Tools: 11 Apps and Services You Need Now

Twitter is all about keeping things brief. After all, the micro-blogging service limits you to 140 characters per post. But the market for twitter apps and services is huge. Everywhere you turn, there's a desktop app aimed at organizing your social media life or a search engine claiming to be the next best way of culling the tweets you want to read. Of course, not all of these apps are equal, but we've found 11 that manage to (mostly) improve upon your Twitter experience.

By Liane Cassavoy

Apr 30, 2012 12:00 AM
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Twitter TweetDeck

Rated: Feb 21, 2012 8:25 AM

A longtime favorite of Twitter power users, TweetDeck provides a comprehensive set of management tools.

4/5

prices from Free

SocialOomph.com SocialOomph

Rated: Feb 8, 2012 6:36 AM

SocialOomph is a cloud-based application that offers tools for using Twitter and Facebook more productively.

4/5

Seesmic Desktop

Rated: Mar 7, 2012 1:10 PM

Mash together Twitter and Facebook updates into a single app, without a lot of clicking.

4/5

UberMedia A.plus

Rated: Feb 21, 2012 9:32 AM

Ashton Kutcher is the name behind--and plastered all over--this free, third-party Twitter app.

3/5

prices from Free

HootSuite Media HootSuite

Rated: Feb 10, 2012 9:08 AM

Manage your Twitter, Facebook, and other social media accounts with this Web-based application.

4.5/5

Andy Young Selective Tweets

Choose when to update your Facebook status from Twitter by ending your tweet with #fb

Selective Tweets lets you update your Facebook status from Twitter

BUT you can choose which tweets you want - just end a tweet with #fb when

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MediaSift TweetMeme

TweetMeme is a service which aggregates all the popular links on Twitter to determine which links are popular. TweetMeme categorises these links into Categories, Subcategories and Channels, making it easy to filter out the noise to find what...