10 Useful Twitter Tools (You Might Not Know About)

The ecosystem for Twitter add-ins is incredibly rich. Here are a few that are especially useful. Twittercal lets you connect your Twitter account with your Google calendar. TweetBeep sends you an e-mail alert when somebody tweets about you (or your company or anything else--like Google Alerts for Twitter). Remember the Milk for Twitter lets you interact with, and get reminder tweets about, your tasks. Trendistic and Twitterfall show you Twitter trends and trending topics. Twubble searches your "friend graph" to help you find more people to follow. Send an e-mail to your special Twittermail e-mail address and it will be posted to Twitter. Twitbin brings Twitter straight into your Firefox browser. HootSuite, "the professional Twitter client," is great if you use Twitter for business--among other things, it lets you schedule tweets and manage multiple accounts. With TwitRes, share your resume on Twitter, preserving its original formatting. And TwittEarth is a really fun way to visualize tweets from all over the world.