Twenty-Six Twitter Tools To Track Tweets

I’ve been finding so many Twitter tools and passing them along that it’s hard to keep track of them all. The Twitter tools I want to keep track of are those that monitor, measure, and analyze Twitterers and their traffic. I figured I’d compile them here for your benefit.

1. Twitter Search – This, obviously, is Twitter’s own search function. You can subscribe to a search via RSS.
2. TweetBeep – TweetBeep is a “Google Alerts” for Twitter
3. Tweetscan – Schedule Twitter searches to be sent to your email.
4. Twist – Like Google Trends for Twitter
5. TwitScoop – TwitScoop is a real-time tag cloud of Twitter buzz that also allows you to create graphs based on keyword tracking.
6. MicroBlogBuzz – MicroBlogBuzz tracks the most popular links shared on microblogging services, including Twitter, Jaiku and Identica
7. Twit(url)y – Tracks popular links and displays them in Digg-like fashion.
8. Hashtags.org – Hashtags tracks the most popular Twitter posts that include a #hashtag. You can subscribe to an individual hashtag using RSS.
9. Twemes – Tracks Twitter memes.
10. TweetGrid – TweetGrid creates a Twitter search dashboard that updates in real time.
11. monitter – monittor is a real-time keyword-based monitoring service that lets you watch three columns of keyword streams side-by-side. You can subscribe to them using RSS.
12. ReTweetist – Tracks the most popular retweets.
13. minn.citytweets.net – Real-time tweets from and/or about Minneapolis.
14. Qwitter – Qwitter notifies you when someone unfollows you.
15. Spy – Spy tracks real-time keyword mentions in Twitter, FriendFeed, Flickr, Blog Comments, Yahoo News, Blogs and Google Reader and allows you to subscribe via RSS.
16. TweetWheel – Finds out which of your Twitter friends know each other.
17. Twitter Charts – Twitter Charts gives you a visualization of when a particular Twitter user is most active. This is an excellent tool to determine the most opportune time to engage a given person.
18. twInfluence – Ranks Twitter users’ influence.
19. TwitterGrader – Grades a given Twitter user according to influence. Includes power users by geographic location; suggests who to follow and allows you to check if someone is following you.
20. TwitterSheep – Creates a tag cloud of all the words in the bios of a given Twitter user’s followers.
21. TwitterCounter – Provides stats on a given Twitter user and lets you compare that user to two others.
22. Twellow – Twellow is a Twitter directory.
23. TweetBoards – Compare Twitter users side-by-side.
24. TweetStats – Gives you Twitter statistics about a given user.
25. TwitterMeter – Twitter Meter allows you to enter a word to graph its use on Twitter’s public feed.
26. TwitterLocal – Twitter Local is a desktop app that finds Twitter users within a fixed radius of a city or zip code.

UPDATED 7/04/09: I knew this as going to happen: I would forget some or others would suggest sites that should be added to the list. For that reason, and so I don’t have to mess with my wonderful alliterative title, I’m listing the additions unnumbered below:

• Twitter Analyzer – The best Twitter analytics tool I have found to date. Offers a ton of statistics.
• Mr. Tweet – A recommendation engine that also provides statistics on your Twitter usage.
• Localtweeps – Find Tweeps near you.
• Twits Like Me – A recommendation engine that suggests Twitterers that are like you.
• Retail Twitter Aggregator – Aggregates the Twitter feeds of a handful of bricks & mortar retailers.
• retweetradar – Tag clouds and trends of retweets.
• Twubs – Find hashtags.
• What The Trend? – Find hashtags that are rising in popularity.
• Tagalus – A hashtag dictionary.
• Twitclicks – Shortens URLs and tracks clicks.
• Bit.ly – Shortens URLs, counts clicks, shows who else shortened a URL and provides metadata about that URL from across the Web.
• Tweetburner – Shortens URLs and tracks clicks on Twitter & FriendFeed.
• Twittervision – Real-time geographic posts to Twitter.
• TweetChannel – Create Twitter channels.
• Twitterfall – Real-time monitoring.
• Twendz – Real-time Twitter search engine coupled with related keywords & word clouds.
• Tweetzi – Advanced Twitter search engine.
• Twistory – Pumps your Twitter feed into a calendar application so you can visualize your Tweeting history.
• Twitlinks – Tracks most popular tech links from most popular tech Twitterers.
• Twitturls – Tracks popular links.
• OneRiot – Twitter search engine.
• twopopular – Tracks hashtags and keywors in real time or by time intervals.
• Tweet Volume – See how often words and phrases are mentioned on Twitter.
• TweetEffect – Find out which tweets gained and which tweets lost you followers.
• Tweetmeme – Tweetmeme tracks the most popular links on twitter every 5 minutes, categorized by types of content: Blogs, images, video or audio.
• Tinker – Aggregates Twitter conversations around topics.
• Splitweet – Multi account manager & brand monitor.
• Tweetizen – Lets you categorize your followers and then follow only that feed.
• Who Should I Follow? – Find new Twitter friends.
• FriendOrFollow.com – Find Twitterers you follow that don’t follow you back.
• Twitter Friends – Compare your tweeting behavior with other.
• Who Follows Who? – Find out the common Twitterers up to five Twitter users have in common.
• From Howard Greenstein at Social Media Today:
  • Tweetvisor – A Twitter control panel
  • TweetDeck – An Adobe Air desktop application for Twitter. I actually use this. It should’ve been on the original list.
  • PeopleBrowsr – A dashboard for many social media accounts, including Facebook, Flickr, Open ID, Digg, FriendFeed, and, of course, Twitter.
  • CoTweet – Let’s multiple people manage a single Twitter account in a rational fashion.
  • Tweet Later – Let’s you schedule Tweets and vet followers.

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