Third-party Twitter Applications to Enhance Your Social Media Experience – Part 1
Tweet, a string of 140 characters, better defines the simplicity of Twitter as a platform for social butterflies. In fact, Twitter has evolved to be more functional and more complex simultaneously. It is not only an online communication podium but also an intricate information resource, a social media marketing tool and an online advertising space. The user activity on the simple interface of Twitter has multiplied manifold using third-party applications. The third-party applications add to the Twitter user interaction and experience. I am up with informative focus on some of the very useful third-party Twitter applications.
HootSuite a social media dashboard is a most useful Twitter application for not only a single account but also multiple accounts holders. Having the same look and feel as that of TweetDeck, HootSuite does not require the users to make any downloads. Supportive of Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, WordPress, MySpace and Ping.fm, it facilitates updating multiple social profiles and
pages at once. The HTML interface of HootSuite supports the drag-and-drop policy to let you
include easily a file or an image from the desktop with your updates. The message box will
upload the file or image with an ‘Ow.ly’ shortener.
A different web application, Brizzly features a simpler and more appealing interface. Meant only for Twitter, Brizzly is equipped with subtle features such as displaying direct messages and
replies in a threaded form, and expanding URLs automatically.
As you log in to your Twitter Tim.es with your Twitter account username and password, you will land on a page displaying the stories tweeted by your followers in a vertical list that
is automatically updated on a regular basis. The Twitter Times page will feature who have tweeted and what. It also lets you view the popular stories from media sources on Twitter.
Paper.li has similar functions as those of Twitter Tim.es but with customizable features. It allows users to create a newspaper page of their own and customize the page based on the people in their Twitter network or Twitter list or Twitter hash tag. Instead of presenting Twitter stories in a stream, Paper.li displays the content on a customized homepage on the basis of topics and
their popularity. It also lets you make the newspaper content look visually appealing with blurbs,
thumbnails and YouTube videos.
TweetMeme, a Twitter bookmarking button, allows users to tweet easily the content that they read online. The user can collect all of the information from the web at TweetMeme. It lets you filter the information by topics and categories, and displays the links with a maximum number of retweets.
Trendistic is developed for major Twitter trends. It displays their popularity and performance over time in a graphic format. It gives users a picture of current trends on the basis of their popularity and importance. You can sort out the trends depending on timeframe and embed them
on your site with a code.
August 30th, 2010 at 2:52 pm
I have just looked at your site and noticed that the site’s logo place at the upper area is showing as a grey square. Is it supposed to be like that? Good article though.