Free Twitter Tools and Apps

Twitter Tools for Analytics

1. My Top Tweet: Your Top 10 list of tweets

Find anyone’s Top 10 tweets, ordered by engagement.

2. Wildfire: Follower growth analysis

Compare your follower growth to your competitors’s follower growth. Simple, helpful, enlightening.

3. SocialBro: Analytics, optimization, and more

A nearly all-in-one platform for all things Twitter. The free plan comes with analytics, best time to tweet, follow/unfollow tools, and community segmentation.

4. Riffle: Data visualizations for any Twitter user

This browser plugin reveals vast insights into any Twitter user you choose. Discover statistics, popular hashtags, most shared links, connected profiles, and much more.

5. Twitonomy: Detailed analytics on users and tweets

A dashboard of analytics for whichever Twitter user you choose (even yours). Analyzes profiles, tweets, engagement, and more.

6. Klout: Twitter scores

Track your influencer score (on a scale of 1-100) and use the Klout dashboard to create and schedule new tweets.

7. SumAll: Email reports for Twitter stats

Sync your Twitter to SumAll, and start seeing daily or weekly emails on how your followers are growing, your mentions, and your engagement.

8. SocialRank: Follower analysis to find your most awesome fans

Receive a sorted list of your best followers, most influential followers, and most engaged followers. Useful to track the important people to engage with on Twitter.

9. Twtrland: A Twitter resume

Plug in your Twitter account to see a snapshot of who you follow, which demographics you fit, who’s in your close network, and more.

10. Bluenod: Community visualization

Type in a user or hashtag and see a detailed map or visualization about the community around the user or the people using the hashtag.

Twitter Tools for Chats

11. Beatstrap: Team liveblogging

Cover live news, sports, and events through Twitter, via hashtags, and collaborate with your team on the coverage. Completed “Beats” come with an embed code.

12. TweetChat: Twitter chat management

Log in to follow a specific hashtag, hang out in a room that collects the hashtagged tweets for you, and reply as you like (with the hashtag added automatically to your tweet).

13. Chat Salad: A calendar of Twitter chats

See upcoming Twitter chats and when they’re scheduled, as well as the hashtags they use (so you can follow along).

14. Twubs: Twitter chat homepages

Register a hashtag for your chat and collect/view the tweets from one location.

15. Nurph: Chat planning and organizing

Nurph channels let you plan and organize your chat, complete with follow-up stats and replays.

16. TwChat: Real-time chat rooms for Twitter chats

Submit your hashtag. Enter your chat room. Have fun!

Twitter Tools for Discovering Fresh Content and Fun Users

17. BuzzSumo: Find influencers, topic-by-topic

Type in a keyword to see which voices get the most shares on Twitter. Find influencers, sniff out headline ideas, and learn what works on Twitter and who’s working it.

18. Nuzzel: Discover what your friends are reading

As described by Twitter’s Joanna Geary, “find out what’s trending among the people the people you follow follow.” Make sense? Translation: Content discovery from friends and friend of friends.

19. Swayy: What your followers are interested in

See the content that your followers recommend plus the topics they most enjoy. View it all via the dashboard or from a daily email digest.

20. Twipho: Searchable Twitter feed of photos

Search by keyword or by location to find photos shared on Twitter.

21. Sonar Solo: Discover keyword-related content

Search any topic to see a visualization of the related topics, trends, and Twitter profiles connected to your search.

22. Topsy: A search engine for social

The most recent and most relevant tweets (and other social updates) based on a keyword search. Also shows keyword volume, sentiment score, and other analytics.

23. Digg Deeper: The best stories from your friends

An algorithmic display of the top articles and links that your Twitter followees have shared. Pair with News.me: a daily email newsletter of what your friends share on Twitter.

24. The Latest: A museum for the day’s best Twitter links

A real-time, constantly updated list of the most interesting links on Twitter, culled from the accounts of interesting people

Twitter Tools for Following & Unfollowing

25. ManageFlitter: Follow/unfollow in bulk

Segment your followers according to a number of factors: last tweet, follower count, location, language and whether or not they follow you back.

26. Tweepi: Tidy up who you follow

Cleanup inactive follows, flush those who don’t follow back, and reciprocate someone else’s follow—all done in bulk and with a few clicks of a checkbox.

27. Unfollowers: In-depth follow/unfollow

Get a complete breakdown of those you follow, and unfollow with ease.

28. DoesFollow: See who follows whom

Does A follow B? Does Bill Gates follow Skrillex? Does Guy Kawasaki follow Jay Baer?

Twitter Tools for Hashtags

29. Hashtagify.me: Complete analytics into any hashtag

Enter a hashtag to discover related tags, recent conversations, usage patterns, and influencers.

30. Rite tag: Hashtag recommender

Plug in a hashtag and see feedback on the tag’s reach and popularity as well as suggestions for some alternatives to try. Complete with pretty colors to see at-a-glance which hashtags are best.

31. Seen: Hashtag-based curation

Collect the media that was shared with a certain hashtag, then rank the results. Share your curation with friends and followers.

Twitter Tools for Mentions & Monitoring

32. Keyhole: LIke Google Alerts for Twitter

Ask Keyhole to notify you whenever a particular keyword, hashtag, or URL is mentioned. Helpful to track mentions of your own name or your company’s blog or campaign.

33. The One Million Tweetmap: Geolocated, real-time tweet monitoring

Track and follow keywords as they’re tweeted in real-time and at real places. Zoom in to a geotargeted area for super fine results.

34. Twilert: Real-time email alerts for keywords

Track keywords on Twitter and receive an email notification every time they’re mentioned. Great for keeping an eye on company names, new products, and branded hashtags.

35. Mention: Monitor your mentions

A listening tool for keeping up with all your mentions on Twitter. Tracks, analyzes, and displays any number of keywords via the Mention dashboard or via email digests.

36. MentionMapp: The web of you and those you mention

Get a visualization map of you and all the people you mention (and they people they mention).

37. Twazzup: Real-time keyword monitoring

Search and track any keyword, username, or hashtag. See a results page full of relevant tweets, user accounts, and influencers.

Twitter Tools for Scheduling Tweets

38. Buffer: Schedule your tweets (plus a whole lot more)

Simple social media management. Fill a queue of tweets, analyze their performance, and find new, hand-picked stories to share.

39. Tweet4me: Scheduled tweets via DM

Send a direct message to the Tweet4me account, use shorthand and prefixes to denote when to share, and let Tweet4me schedule and send the tweet for you.

Twitter Tools for Timing

40. Followerwonk: Search Twitter bios and analyze your followers

Every analysis imaginable for your Twitter feed, your profile, your followers, and your competitors.

41. Tweriod: Find the best times to tweet

Tweriod analyzes the tweets you send and your followers’s tweets to find the optimal time for engagement.

Twitter Tools for Trending Topics

42. Trends24: Detailed breakdowns of trending terms

See trending terms from the last—you guessed it—24 hours, broken out hour-by-hour and country-by-country. Enlightening for social media campaigns and geographic/timing research.

43. Trendsmap: Monitoring for local Twitter trends

A zoomable map that shows popular hashtags and terms from anywhere in the world with easy-click buttons to hone in on My City, My Region, and more.

44. iTrended: Did it trend?

Search the past 15 days to find whether certain keywords trended or not.

Top Twitter Clients

45. Tweetdeck: The king of Twitter clients

Via the app or the web, stay on top of your Twitter stream with Tweetdeck’s organization and tracking tools. Split your stream into segmented columns to stay engaged with what’s important.

46. YoruFukurou – Twitter client

A native Twitter client for Mac OS X. Dashboard views of incoming tweets, lists, and searches, split across multiple tabs. Comes highly recommended from Kottke.org.

47. Happy Friends: Mailbox-type reader

Pick the friends you want to hear from. Never miss their tweets. View all their activity via an inbox-style layout with nested updates.

Miscellaneous Twitter Tools

48. TW Birthday: Dig up the date someone joined Twitter (even if they won’t say)

For those who omit the “date joined” on their profile, there’s still a way to discover it. See how long your new favorite follow has been tweeting or when a new profile officially landed.

49. Bio is Changed: be alerted when someone changes their Twitter bio (good for job moves)

Rather self-descriptive, this tool updates you when someone changestheir Twitter bio. Useful if you’d like to track job moves and major news or even to learn from how people craft unique Twitter bios.

50. Like Explorer: See shares per article

Type in a URL. See the share numbers. Simple.

51. Tweet Beat: List management

A powerful tool for managing your Twitter lists—adding, removing, discovering, and sharing.

52. and 53. IFTTT & Zapier: Automate your tweeting

Connect multiple apps in unique ways to your Twitter account. For example, post your Instagram pictures as native Twitter photos.

54. Be Present: Track how fast you respond on Twitter

Real-time reports on your response time, response rate, and performance based on industry benchmarks. Also, really pretty to look at.

55. SavePublishing: Tweetable snippets on any website

Install the bookmarklet, and you can reveal any tweetable sentences (140 characters or fewer) from any article.

56. Tweekly: Once-a-week email of tweets you care about

Tell Tweekly which Twitter account you want to hear from, Tweekly pulls all their tweets and emails you weekly.

57. GroupTweet: Collaborate with teammates on one account

Let your teammates and coworkers share to the same account automatically with zero password-sharing. GroupTweet can even append usernames on to the end of individual tweets.

58. Storify: Beautiful Twitter storytelling

Grab any number of tweets and media elements, and place them all into a Storify collection that you can embed and share anywhere.

59. Tweet Topic Explorer: A word cloud per user

Discover the most-used words of any user you choose (even you).

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.Bharat Domain Name Launched

.भारत Domain Name Launched

The government today launched a new domain .भारत (dot Bharat) in Devanagari script. Initially, the domain will cover eight languages - Hindi, Bodo, Dogri, Konkani, Maithili, Marathi, Nepali and Sindhi. All these languages are from the list of 22 languages registered in the Eighth Schedule of the Constitution. 

The main purpose of .भारत domain is to connect people with social media and provide content in Indian languages. It will help provide information to the general public in their own regional languages. 

The domain was launched by Union Communication and Information Technology Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad. 

The domain was developed by the joint efforts of National Internet Exchange of India and the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing. 

The new domain would replace the commonly used domains like .com, .in, .net and others. This would also soon be followed by similar launches in regional languages like Tamil, Gujarati, Punjabi, Urdu, Telugu and Bangala.

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Google's 10 Search Innovations

Google's 10 Search Innovations 

1. Autocomplete - Autocompletion of search queries has saved billions of keystrokes. But it could cost Google in legal fees: Earlier this month, a Hong Kong court allowed Albert Yeung Sau-shing, a local businessman, to sue Google for defamation because autocomplete suggests his name is associated with organized crime groups called "triads."

 2. Translations - Google handles billions of translations a day in 80 languages. It's not perfect but it's very good as a basic way to explore languages that would otherwise be baffling. And you know it will get better. 

3. Directions and traffic "Search used to be just about webpages, but our amazing Maps team made it possible to search the real world too," says Singhal. Getting to this point, however, wasn't easy. Google ran into its share of roadblocks: public resistance, security concerns, regulatory skepticism, and a WiFi data gathering scandal. If only Google had a map that could show it the way to launch a product without alienating people.

4. Universal search - Before Google implemented universal search, it maintained a variety of distinct "vertical" search engines, such as Video Search and Book Search. Universal search brought those links together so they could be searched from the Web Search box. It was a major improvement and a blow to specialty search companies that focused on a particular industry, such as travel and local search. Universal search demoted every specialty search engine to a feature it could add at any time, perhaps with an acquisition or two. 

 5. Mobile and new screens Search used to be desktop product. Now it's mobile, too. But search beyond the desktop requires alternative modes of input. Google is already on that, with Voice Search.

 6. Voice search - No one likes typing on mobile devices. Luckily for Google and for its users, its speech recognition and natural language comprehension keeps getting better.

 7. Actions - Google's Search app can perform a limited number of actions, mostly using Android devices. You can tell it, for example, to remind you of something when you're in a particular location, with the assistance of Google Now.

 8. The Knowledge Graph - To help Google Search move beyond finding keywords in documents to understanding questions, Google built (and acquired) the Knowledge Graph. But as Picasso reportedly said, "Computers are useless. They can only give you answers." (Then again, IBM's Watson can phrase answers in the form of a question, Jeopardy-style.)

 9. Info just for you - Google Search, if you let it, can access your Gmail, to provide answers about flight reservations or package deliveries. It's a perfect example of the tradeoff between privacy and convenience. If history is any guide, never bet on privacy.

 10. Answers before you have to ask - With Google Now and Google Search, you can get updates about relevant information, such as traffic jams or upcoming appointments, without even asking. The endgame: Make purchases without even thinking.

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34 Free Online Tools to Help You Run Your Business

The Internet abounds with tools and resources for running a business. Here are 34 free online tools that can help you analyze your website, schedule appointments, invoice customers, and everything in between.

Accounting & Invoicing

• Wave – Accounting is one of the most important functions of any business. Wave will not only help you keep your books, but you can invoice your customers too.
• Zoho – It would be easier to say what you cannot do with Zoho. This free online business 

File Storage

• Google Drive – Google Drive gives you 15 GB storage space free.
• Dropbox – Dropbox is one of the most popular file storage services online. They have an upgraded service for businesses, but if your business is small enough you can use the free version and get up to 2GB storage space.
• Evernote – Evernote allows you to clip anything you want from the Web and save it for later use. You can also upload images and files and keep track of your research more easily.

Document Creation

• Google Docs – If you do a lot of writing or create correspondence on a regular basis, you can do it easily with Google Docs. You can also create spreadsheets and presentations.
• Zoho – Everything you can do in Google Docs or Microsoft Word can also be done with Zoho.
• ThinkFree – ThinkFree gives you 1 GB of free storage space, and you can create your word processing, spreadsheet, or presentation documents on the website.Website Analytics

• Google Analytics – The granddaddy of analytics programs. Some business owners won't use anything else.
• Piwik – A worthy alternative to Google Analytics.
• TrendCounter – Not as robust as Google Analytics or Piwik, but not bad.

Content Management

• WordPress – What started out as a blogging tool has become one of the Web's best and most used content management systems. You can build your website on WordPress.
• Joomla – Flexible, easy to use, and used by millions of businesses around the world.
• Wix – Wix is a web-based website creation tool and content management system.
• Weebly – Just like Wix, with drag-and-drop features.

E-mail List Management

• MailChimp – Free up to 2,000 subscribers. A great way to get started with e-mail marketing.
• MailerMailer – Up to 200 free messages a month.
• WordPress – You can manage your mailing list straight from WordPress, but you'll need to use a plugin.

Social Media Management

• Hootsuite – Hootsuite allows you to post messages to Facebook, Twitter, Google+ pages, LinkedIn, and other social media accounts. It also allows lets you assign multiple managers to those accounts.
• SocialOomph – SocialOomph will allow you to preschedule your tweets and track keywords. You can also manage Facebook, LinkedIn, and Plurk through your SocialOomph account.
• Everypost – Manage your social media from your iPhone.

Payment Systems

• Square – Take credit card payments on your smartphone with this free card reader.
• Pay N Seconds – Accept multiple forms of payment with this free solution.
• PayPal – Take global payments. Get a free account and pay a fee per transaction. It's free to transfer money to your bank.

Appointment Scheduling

• Doodle – Schedule group meetings with input from other group members.
• Calendly – Integrates well with Google Calendar (also free). Schedule appointments and set up automated reminders.
• YouCanBook.Me – Another free scheduling tool that integrates with Google Calendar.

Web Conferencing

• Anymeeting – Free online Web conferencing. Includes lots of cool features like screen share, YouTube integration, and meeting recording.
• Google+ Hangout – Google changed the online meeting landscape when it introduced Google+ Hangouts, which allows you to record your meetings and post them to YouTube. You need a Google+ account.
• Zoho – Remember, there isn't much you can't do with Zoho—even hold online meetings.

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Twitter Testing Easier To Use Hashtags

Twitter appears to be testing a feature that will better organize its chaotic world of hashtags.

The new feature, seen by The Wall Street Journal in the Twitter app for iOS, added an expanded label to some hashtag searches such as #tbt (Throwback Thursday), #smh (Shaking My Head) or #oitnb (TV series “Orange Is The New Black”). The labeling gives the hashtags a sense of legitimacy and order as related to a certain event or subject.

Other hashtags noticed by WSJ that appeared to have legitimate associations to it included #lol (“League of Legends,” the popular online game), #manutd (Manchester United, the soccer team), #hhldn (Hacks/Hackers London, a small media/technology event) and #rt (stated to be Russia Today, rather than retweet).

It wasn’t clear how these labels were generated. Some included an option for users to rate their accuracy. 

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Render & Fetch - New Update of Google Webmaster

Rendering pages with Fetch as Google

The Fetch as Google feature in Webmaster Tools provides webmasters with the results of Googlebot attempting to fetch their pages. The server headers and HTML shown are useful to diagnose technical problems and hacking side-effects, but sometimes make double-checking the response hard: Help! What do all of these codes mean? Is this really the same page as I see it in my browser? Where shall we have lunch? We can't help with that last one, but for the rest, we've recently expanded this tool to also show how Googlebot would be able to render the page.

Viewing the rendered pageIn order to render the page, Googlebot will try to find all the external files involved, and fetch them as well. Those files frequently include images, CSS and JavaScript files, as well as other files that might be indirectly embedded through the CSS or JavaScript. These are then used to render a preview image that shows Googlebot's view of the page.

You can find the Fetch as Google feature in the Crawl section of Google Webmaster Tools. After submitting a URL with "Fetch and render," wait for it to be processed (this might take a moment for some pages). Once it's ready, just click on the response row to see the results.

Handling resources blocked by Robots.txt

Googlebot follows the robots.txt directives for all files that it fetches. If you are disallowing crawling of some of these files (or if they are embedded from a third-party server that's disallowing Googlebot's crawling of them), we won't be able to show them to you in the rendered view. Similarly, if the server fails to respond or returns errors, then we won't be able to use those either (you can find similar issues in the Crawl Errors section of Webmaster Tools). If we run across either of these issues, we'll show them below the preview image.

We recommend making sure Googlebot can access any embedded resource that meaningfully contributes to your site's visible content, or to its layout. That will make Fetch as Google easier for you to use, and will make it possible for Googlebot to find and index that content as well. Some types of content – such as social media buttons, fonts or website-analytics scripts – tend not to meaningfully contribute to the visible content or layout, and can be left disallowed from crawling. For more information, please see our previous blog post on how Google is working to understand the web better.

We hope this update makes it easier for you to diagnose these kinds of issues, and to discover content that's accidentally blocked from crawling. If you have any comments or questions, let us know here or drop by in thewebmaster help forum. Subsribe this blog for more Google Webmaster Updates



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