Twitter Complete Guide

by skyje · Published Aug 1, 2009 · Updated Mar 25, 2011

Complete Guide to Twitter . All about twitter Resources, search, tools,mobile,buttons,icons and tutorials. we will also mention top twitter users and twitter similar sites.

Twitter

Social networking and microblogging service utilising instant messaging, SMS or a web interface.

Twitter Search:

Twitter Search

Search Twitter in realtime – see what the world is doing right now.

WhosTalkin
WhosTalkin is a tool that allows users to search for conversations on the topics they care about most.

Twitter Search
Search Twitter is an excellent search engine that allows you to find out what’s happening in the world beyond your personal timeline.

Flaptor Twitter Search
Comprehensive Twitter search.

Twitscoop
Input a Twitter username or keywords in the Twitscoop search box to track a conversation, topic or conference.

Twellow
With Twellow, you can search for someone on Twitter or browse through various tweet categories.

twitSeeker
twitSeeker is an alternate search engine for finding Twitter users and browsing the results in one interface.

Twitter News:

Twitter News – The New York Times

Breaking Tweets | World News, Twitter-Style

Twitter Tools:

TopTweet

This site provides you updates from the top Twitter personalities. Yes, it took us a lot of tries to take a screenshot without Scoble in it.

TweetVolume

With this, you can check how many time a particular word appear on Twitter. You can compare upto five words and see the results in bar graphs.

TrackThis

This is an useful service to get updates of your shipment using Twitter. It supports FedEx, UPS, USPS and DHL tracking codes.

Tweetpeek

You can create a group Twitter feed with Tweetpeek.

TwitBuzz

TwitBuzz is a service that follows the links, messages,and users on Twitter and displays them nicely

Triqqr

Submit tweets directly to Twitter and view user profiles.

Tweet a file

Tweetafile brings an important email functionality to the simple world of Twitter – attachments. Through Tweetafile, Twitter users can send any files (images, PDFs, Docs, videos… whatever) to all of their followers or via direct message to individuals.

FlashTweet

FlashTweet is a mass follow tool that simplifies the process of adding your twitter friends. You can see who you are following that is following you back, mass follow users based on search terms and even unfollow multiple friends at once.

FlashTweet is a mass follow tool

Refollow

Refollow helps you discover, manage, and protect your Twitter social circle.

Refollow

Doesfollow

Find out who follows whom on Twitter.

Doesfollow

Twittangle

TwitTangle is a free service that helps you untangle the mess of having too many friends on twitter.

Twittangle

Tweeter Tags

Tweeter Tags makes it easy to declare your interests and find new, like-minded friends.

Tweeter Tags

MrTweet

Helping you find great people and followers relevant to your interests.

MrTweet

Twalala

Using twalala, you can filter tweets out of your stream by keywords and phrases or mute individuals who get a bit too chatty.

Twalala

Twitnest

Interesting visualization of your followers and their followers.

Twitnest

Twittersnooze

It’s a good tool to avoid a blast of tweets from a conference you are not attending… just snooze the conference goers for a few days.

Twittersnooze

Twimailer

Tired of shallow e-mails from Twitter when someone follows you? Want to know more about the people who are following you? Twimailer is a free service that delivers that information right to your inbox!

Twimailer

My Cleaner

MyCleenr is a unique way to sort your friends by their last tweets.

My Cleaner

Twitter Karma

Bulk management of followers and those you are following.

Twitter Karma

Tweepler

Tweepler Is an easy, more enjoyable way of processing your New Twitter Followers.

Tweepler

TweetSum

TweetSum does one thing and does it well: we show you at a glance who’s following you, give you the tools you need to decide whether you should follow them back or not.

TweetSum

Twitoria

Twitoria finds your friends that haven’t tweeted in a long time so you can give them the boot!

Twitoria

Mutuality

Mutuality is a simple service which allow you to make bulk operations with your account.

Mutuality

TweetEffect

Find out which of your Twitter updates made people follow or leave you. Simply enter your Twitter ID in the following form.

TweetEffect

TweepMe

TweepMe is the 100% opt-in group of Twitter users who all chose to follow each other on Twitter.

TweepMe

TwitterLess

Twitterless tells you who stops following you and graphs your follower history over time, making this info available in a variety of useful views.

TwitterLess

TwitterRatio

Your Twitter Ratio is the ratio of your followers to friends (or people who you follow). It is measured with the TFF Ratio (Twitter Follower-Friend Ratio).

TwitterRatio

FriendOrFollow

Who are you following that’s not following you back? Who’s following you that you’re not following back? Find out!

FriendOrFollow

TweepDiff

Compare Twitter friends and followers.

TweepDiff

Twollo

Find and Follow Twitterers with similar interests to you.

Twollo

Twitter100

With Twitter100, you can see your followers at a glance (up to 100).

Twitter100

iFollowBack

Follow back people.

iFollowBack

Twtrfrnd

A new follower? Should you follow back? Find out if you have common followings with them, and which people you follow that follow them.

Twtrfrnd

FriendMePlease

Everyone wants more friends. We just make it easy.

FriendMePlease

TwitHive

Monitor and Interact with the Twitter Hive Mind.

TwitHive

Foller.Me

Before you follow.

Foller.me

FollowLists

Create and share lists of your Twitter friends.

Twitter for Mobile:

Twitter Mobile

only go here on your phone

iTweet

A mobile Twitter site designed for the iPhone.

iTwit

Mobile version of Twitter made for the iPhone.

Tweeter

Twitter on your mobile phone while avoiding text message charges.

Jargong

Browse Flickr, do some social networking, but most importantly, check and publish tweets.

WildSets

Extensve Twitter app for mobile phones.

TwitterBerry

Twitter built for various BlackBerry devices. Update and view timelines with ease.

jTwitter

View timelines, enter updates, and more, all on your mobile phone.

TreoTwit

Easily check and update your Twitter right from your Treo.

Slandr
Slandr delivers an enhanced mobile website for Twitter.

Twitter2Go
Twitter2Go provides a quick and simple way to update your Twitter status.

Tapulous
Discover, connect with and send messages to people nearby. Upload photos and update your Twitter account.

Twittelator
Twittelator is an all-around great new application for your iPhone.

TwitterFon
TwitterFon is a simple, clean, easy to use and super-fast Twitter client for your iPhone and iPod Touch.

iTweet 2
iTweet 2 has built-in auto-refresh, search and hash tags. You can view user bios and locations and also view conversations with the “in reply to” links.

GPS Twit
Run GPS Twit on your phone to make it easy for your friends to find you.

iTwtr
An open-source Twitter client for your iPhone.

Hahlo
Hahlo is an excellent and fully featured Twitter client for your iPhone and iPod Touch.

TwitterFone
Send messages to Twitter using your voice.

PocketTweets
PocketTweets is a Web-based Twitter client for the Apple iPhone.

TinyTwitter
TinyTwitter works on any Java-enabled device and any Windows Mobile Pocket PC or smartphone.

TwitterBerry
TwitterBerry is a mobile client for posting updates to Twitter from your BlackBerry.

twitxr
Share pictures and status updates from your mobile.

Mac Desktop Twitter Apps:

Tweetie

The Mac’s finest Twitter app? Many of it’s users think so, with an intuitive interface and great features such as a conversation tracker and threaded DM’s, it’s the one to beat!

Twitteriffic

The Twitter equivalent of driving a Rolls Royce to work

Nambu

Allows you to update different microblogging services simultaneously with one swift finger dab

Feedalizr

Adobe Air app allowing you to easily shares images and keep track of your contacts social media activities

Ada

Simple, minimalist app, allows you to tweet with a minimum of fuss

Twittia

If Apple made Twitter clients, it would look and feel like this

Dsesktop Twitter Apps:

Tweetdeck

One of the best desktop twitter apps out there. Tweetdeck helps you sort your friends and followers in groups and also helps you manage replies, DMs and search results.

Twitter themes:

Betterinpink

Bill Weaver

Andy Sowards

Dickie Adams

Fresh ID

Brandingsalon

Mindy Wagner

Twitter WordPress Plugins and Widgets:

Tweet This

Adds a “Tweet This Post” link to every post and page, so your readers can share your blog entries on their Twitter accounts with ease.

Twitter Widget Pro

A widget that properly handles twitter feeds, including parsing @username, #hashtags, and URLs into links. Requires PHP5.

Tweetable

Integrate Twitter with your WordPress blog. Automatically tweet new posts, display your latest tweet in your sidebar

TweetMeme Button

Adds the TweetMeme button into your posts and RSS feed.

TwitterCounter

Integrate TwitterCounter.com badges on your blog to display the number of followers you have on Twitter

Twitter for WordPress

Twitter for WordPress displays yours latest tweets in your WordPress blog.

Tweetbacks

Show tweets that mention your post as “tweetbacks” in your comments section.

Twitter Tools

Twitter Tools is a plugin that creates a complete integration between your WordPress blog and your Twitter account.

Twitter Icons and Buttons:

Twitter Buttons by mts

30 Free Vector Twitter Buttons Download
30 twitter buttons in EPS format.

(max)Icone Blog, Set 3

50 Free and Exclusive Twitter Icons

The Flasher Icon

Twitter Icon Promo Pack

A set of 53 twitter icons by webtreat

Cute Tweeters Icon Set
via Smashing Magazine
Eight icons. Available in 128×128, 256×256 and 512×512 in formats of eps, psd and ai

Twitter Tutorials:

Twitter in Plain English

Not so much a tutorial but a clever video explanation of what Twitter is and what it’s for. Worth watching.

How to Set Up a Twitter Account

Excellent, concise 5 steps to being set up on Twitter.

How To Follow on Twitter

How To Reply on Twitter

How to make a Twitter background picture

Step by step tutorial to create your Twitter background image with Photoshop.

Top Twitter users:

100,000+ Followers

50,000-100,000 Followers

Twitter Similar Sites:

Sweetter.Net – it’s sweet micro blogging site that I found very interesting.

Yonkly – very simple, fast yet In my opinion better then twitter.

Joomla Twitter Tools:

JP Latest Twitter Update

you a nice fancy box with your latest twitter updates. Very simple configuration; Just put in your Twitter username in the module and the amount of updates you want the module to show. That’s it.

jTweet

Another Tweet module that can show your latest tweets or it can show a query based on the word(s) you put in the module’s configuration. Graphically I have to say this is a good looking one. In the configuration you can set avatar size, tweet count, display link text and some nice text features like: “I said”, “I replied”, making it a more human looking list of tweets. Recommendable for showing your tweets on your Joomla pages in a nice and graphical way.

Joomla Tweets Module

A very effective Twitter module that shows the latest user Tweets in your website. Quick and easy configuration. Basically fill in Twitter username and amount of tweets to show. Also has a nice caching option. And what many modules left out, a module class suffix field. If you want to show your Tweets in a quick way, this is the module to get.

Joomla Tweet This

Have scavenged the net, but haven’t come across a Tweet This module for Joomla. But here it is thanks to Gnome On The Run. An effective Tweet This button in a module. Configuration of the module allows a Tweet prefix, a choice of your favorite URL service to use for shortening your url. Number of items to tweet. 12 Tweet This buttons are in the package. The buttons are nice! In our website we have incorporated this Tweet This button module on the right top of our news pages.