Useful Twitter Links

We work with some clients who are already establised on Twitter, know their RTs from their DMs and are starting to build a great community.

I was looking at expanding one client’s community with them and we decided to devote some time to finding new people to follow, look at when our tweets had the maximum impact and what shape the community we already had was in.

We spent a lot of time Twitter stalking (going through who was similar to us and who they followed etc…) and found the following links useful. I hope you find them useful too.

Finding People/Journalists/ and user directories

• http://tweepz.com – The tweepz search is better for me than Twitter’s search - it seems easier to get an overview
• http://muckrack.com – A brilliant resource to find journalists - it lacks a good search though. For a fee you can also submit a press release http://muckrack.com/press_releases/submit)
• http://twitterpacks.pbworks.com A collaborative wiki - you can also add yourself. You can also add events to the wiki.
• http://justtweetit.com – Good for finding similar people but the press section offers a lot more for North Americans than us Europeans.
• http://www.journalisttweets.com – Sorted by region and the focus is clearly North America. If you’re looking for Europe as a whole it can be hard asit is sorted first by country and then by sector. There is no sectoral listing for all of Europe, which is a shame.
• http://www.twellow.com
• http://wefollow.com

Useful admin

• http://timely.is – Analyses your last 199 tweets and works out when is the best time for you to tweet so it gets maximum impact - it can then automate your tweets. Gives you some analysis too.
• http://twopcharts.com – Not a very attractive site but it’s great for statistics etc. It also gives advice on when to tweet, who to follow etc
• http://www.crowdbooster.com – A social media analysis with a nicer interface and graphs
• http://www.tweetscan.com – This lets you to download your Tweets and goes back to 2007 (if you go back that far).

Random but cool

• http://twittercal.com – Add to your google calendar from twitter
• http://storify.com – Lets you curate tweets for a story from hastags etc
• http://twtvite.com – To invite and manage a tweet up!
• http://lanyrd.com – You can put a conference on here etc. North America focus but could still be very useful

(And yes, we should use these links ourselves but, as ever, we spend more time on Twitter for clients than for us!) (sh)