It’s no secret the online world is becoming more and more social everyday. Twitter just happens to be one of the biggest online social networks used everyday by millions of people and corporations alike. There’s no dearth of Twitter apps for Android, but these top 5 are the crème of the cop.

5-  Seesmic

Seesmic is one of the most popular and oldest Twitter client on Android. Part of its popularity is due to its full support for Facebook as well.  It also comes with built in Twitlonger integration, conversation view, retweets, lists, multiple twitter accounts support and a host of other features. The app has a pleasant UI and is stable and light on system resources.

4-  UberSocial

Previously named Twidroyd, UberSocial is a popular Twitter client for Android offering some unique features, the biggest of which is Live Preview, which allows you to preview the content of any link, share over Twitter without leaving the application. Other features include ‘pull to refresh’ and ‘tweets near you’ the later of which uses location services to find nearby people. The application also supports themes.

 3- Tweetcaster

Apart from having an extremely elegant looking UI, which supports minor theming, Tweetcaster, is also one of the more ‘intelligent’ Twitter clients on Android. Offering brilliant features such as ‘Zip it’ which allows you to hide annoying twitter trends from your timeline without having to unfollow anyone and ‘SmartLists’ which helps you organize your twitter timeline by grouping people into lists.

2- Tweetdeck

Tweetdeck has the best looking interface amongst all Twitter clients on Android due to its simplicity and use of colors that don’t pop out to strain eyes. It has multiple column support, which you can set to display any custom stream you want for example tweets of any specific user or your mentions and direct messages. It’s also extremely light on resources and the app as a whole feels very light and nimble. It also has built in Facebook support.

 1- Twitter for Android

Twitter for Android is the official twitter client made by Twitter  itself. It’s the only app that will sync with your phonebook contacts. The application recently received a major overhaul that brought killer features such as push notifications which means you receive notifications as they happen rather than setting up a refresh interval. The UI is also very neat and clean with a white theme. It also offers a built in search feature which allows you to search for tweets related to whatever term you want.

Let us know your favourite through the comments section below!

With the development of social networking that exists right now, it provides its own opportunities for you, especially for those who want to exploit the popularity of social networking for your benefit. One of the social networking that offers such as this program is twitter. Working system of this program is known by the term “paid to tweet“, i.e. you will get paid to do an update status, where the contents of your status is promotion of business from the advertiser.

But there are some requirements that you must follow to be able to joint this program, including the number of followers have over 50 people, where more and more followers you have, then it is likely to get ads from the advertiser will be even greater. As for the earning of the value offered also vary. Usually, the value depends on the number of followers. Therefore, if you want to get earnings big enough , then you can try to increase the number of followers.

As for the payout, the minimum account balance must be reach $50. The more often you are checking your accounts, the greater your chances of getting advertising. You are also allowed to have multiple twitter accounts, where this will be very beneficial for you to get more earnings. How do you think? Do you need to joint with this program?

Twitter have this new feature of “Facebook connections” under settings which connects the Twitter into Facebook (I have used various other apps to connect the Twitter and Facebook). So what’s new in it when there already is the Facebook app? Yeah, previously Twitter doesn’t have any official options in settings but now you can discover it under you profile settings.Here are some screenshots that shows the way it looks:

Connect your Facebook account

Allow the Facebook apps to post on your wall

Test yourself

Yeah, it’s like same old app

Note: “You can choose whether you want to post your updates on Facebook or not” and even if you like them to publish, “Tweets that are @replies will not be posted on Facebook“!

iPad users that use Twitter extensively have something to smile about. This is because Twitter now has a HTML5 version of its website Twitter.com that will act as a makeover for iPad users. Obviously, this makeover comes as Twitter’s popularity is spreading and HTML5 is the technology that everyone is moving towards. This, needless to say, will be an upgraded version of the Twitter app that was made available to iPhone and Android smartphones.

This information has spread across the world since Twitter tweeted on the following on their page

We’ve launched our HTML5 version of twitter.com for iPad. It will be rolling out to device owners over the next week or so

According to reports, this app is entirely based on HTML5 and unlike the tradition one panel view the latest version will be a two panel view. Additionally, it is said to be more touch-friendly, and sensitive to touch gestures. Also, it is said to reflect the new look and feel that Twitter’s website design is moving towards.

This has just been announced and not all have been able to test the app as yet. However, going by Twitters declaration in their tweet over the next weeks more and more users will have access to it, and experts will be able to gauge the feedback from users.

via – Techcrunch

The general rule about social media is that it is only as good as you can use it. So, finally being efficient and effective on social media finally depends on you. Twitter is a social media that has been gaining in popularity with millions of users accessing it. With the kind of population it has it becomes of prime importance to ensure that your voice is heard and you understand the implications of what you put out there for everyone to see. Here are a list of 10 tools that Twitter offers to make your tweets reach the right kind of audience, at the right time, and can provide you with feedback on how you have done.

1.    Tweetdeck : This is like a personal browser to stay in touch with the latest updates and being in touch with your contacts. It can be used to customize tweets with columns, groups, saved searches and automatic updates. It helps you stay in touch with people and topics of your choice easily.

2.  HootSuite : It is a tool that helps you manage multiple social networks all using one client the HootSuite. It also makes it easy to manage many users over many social network accounts for companies that have more than one contributor. Additionally, it also provides graphs to show individual and group contribution statistics.

3.  Nurph : This is a tool that helps you chat on Twitter. One of the best ways to make a social network work for you is to be on it and have a voice. Nurph. You can tweet to nurph.com YourTwitterName, this can then be used to bring your friends & followers together for a real-time chat.

4. CoTweet : It helps marketing and customer support professionals to manage their social media conversations from a centralized dashboard. This ensures that the communication goes from corporations of any size are all speaking in one language. This is useful for companies of all sizes.

5. Twellow : Twellow is similar to the yellow pages, except that this maintains a directory of public Twitter accounts. It also categorises the accounts and has search features that can help you find the people and categories that are of importance to you.

6. Twoorl : Twoorl is a web application that gives you updates on the impact that your Twitter account in the Twitter world. It provides you information with metrics on usage trends, associated clouds and user comparisons. It is priced at $9.90 a month and has a 20 day free trial available.

7. Twaitter : Twaitter helps you schedule your Twitter messages with easy. It helps you regulate the Twitter messages, manage your calendar, translate your tweets to different languages and update your blogs and RSS feed to your Twitter account.

8. Dlvr.it : This tool provides you the option to unite your blog with your Twitter. If you have written a blog and want to share it with your Twitter followers, this tool makes the transition easy. It provides you the option to syndicate content from social media.

9. ManageFlitter : This tool helps you manage who follows you and see who is not following you back. It also provides information on which of the Twitter accounts are inactive. This ensures that you follow and are followed by people that are serious about tweeting and therefore make you more efficient.

10. The Archivist : This is a service that uses the Twitter Search API. It helps find archived tweets. Using the information that the tool returns you can create an archive, analyze, export or share the Tweet. This is developed by the Microsoft’s MIX Online team and help you gather older information easily and effectively.

Following so much tweeples is such mess when we have over does of updates on public timelines. Recently, I found a new app which help you to manage and analyze your Twitter profile and community. SocialBro is a nice tool which is based on Adobe Air and offers different search criteria together with filters for all your followers.

To use this app, all you have to do is login by using Twitter account and after logging in you find lots of options based on your followers and friends. By using this app, you can easily find who is not following you and also whom you are not following. In other words, we can also say that it offer all details of your account.

Features

• Download whole profile information of followers and friends to a local database and you can also use this information when you are offline.
• Find new followers and friends using different queries like name, location and description
• Filter and re-order search results
• Create Twitter lists using search results
• Easily find who is not following you
• Find new followers for you
• Manage multipe accounts

One of the great thing I like about this app is that, it is available for desktop as well as an Google Chrome extension and it can easily detect spammers, noisy users, influential users, famous users, newbies from amongst your friends and or followers.

SocialBro is in beta phase and you can try it out by signing up an account to get started with this app.

Sign-Up Link for SocialBro

As a blogger and using Twitter, you need to know some useful things like who to follow and who not to follow because Twitter user can spam, complain or simply update any random status. This infographic clearly shows different types of Twitter profiles and ti gives you good advice on different kinds of accounts on Twitter. 

Let us know what kind of Twitter account you have and share your views in comment section with us.

It is extremely interesting for all the micro-blogger to check out Twitter’s Improved “Who to Follow” features that makes easier for them to discover new accounts of interest. In other words, when you do a search for any specific topic, Twitter will list out accounts that are relevant to that particular subject. Further user can opt for advanced search features like tweet from specific people and hastags. It means that you only have to search for a subject rather than knowing the exact name of those that cover the subject.

Twitter Blog reads -

We’ve made it easier to find and follow Twitter accounts based on your interests. When you search for a topic, you can now discover accounts that are relevant to that particular subject. (Previously, you would have seen accounts that have the specific term in their name or username.) Just click on the “people” section of the search results page or search from the “Who to follow” page.

The search list comprises of several topics including technology, travel and funny, so it becomes even more simpler for users to find people of their interest. Not to forget, advanced search capabilities will help people narrow their search when using the service.

How To Be Awesome On Twitter is a nice presentation by @princess_misia where she described about an effective way of using Twitter. If you want to know “How to choose focus on Twitter?”, “How to decorate your profile” or “How to grow followers base” then you should go through this presentation on twitter.

Twitter has announced some of the most important and sought out trends on its site yearinreview in the year 2010. Like in  2009 , in 2010 too Twitter has split all its leading contenders and under different categories and listed out the top 10 topics under each category. For instance, under overall top trends, it has revealed that the Gulf Oil Spill was one of the most sought after topics in the year 2010 with the FIFA world cup and the movie inception being second and third respectively.

The categories that twitter has used to provide top 10 information are as follows:

• Overall Top Trends
• News Events
• People
• Movies
• Television
• Technology
• World Cup
• Sports
• Hashtags

In the Twitterverse, in 2010 a range of topics of conversation have occurred, and this list is one of the most comprehensive list of what was most talked about. Twitter does not reveal the method of how it gains this information. However, it has provided information on what has been popular among users.

Apart from the Gulf Oil Spill, other disasters like the Haiti earthquake also been an important point of discussion. Justin Bieber was popular, while the movie Inception encouraged a lot of conversation.

Overall, Twitter had a lot of conversation, and Twitter has yet again displayed the different topics that made the maximum news.

Indonesian official Andi Arief’s account was hacked by a hacker and used to send fake tsunami warnings. Andi Arief is the Indonesian president’s, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono’s, disaster management adviser.

Andi Rief had over 8,000 followers on a Twitter account used to post disaster-related updates. This is because Indonesia has over 150 active volcanoes and is frequently struck by earthquakes, floods or tsunamis. With such popularity and followings because of the nature of the account, it also got a lot of attention for cyber crime.

Akuat Supriyanto, a member of Andi’s staff, confirmed the hack on Twitter. He told the press

Today, at dawn, the Twitter account of Andi Arief, the presidential adviser for social and disaster management was hacked. The hacker wrote many incorrect messages. Please inform other friends

This hacking forced Andi to open another account and took part responsibility for the hacking. He added

It is probably because of my own recklessness therefore starting now I am using @AndiAriefNews, please understand’. He also tweeted ‘Because of the trouble I had with my old Twitter account, I am using this account to update information. Thank you

It isn’t clear how Arief’s account was compromised. However, this has surely made people more aware social medias risk and vulnerability.

According to IBM it has gained £2.5m a year in productivity savings because of implementing social media strategy in 2007. The company made use of social networks such as Twitter and LinkedIn to enable cross functional collaboration, and also encouraged employees to use them regularly.

Additionally, the company spread the benefits of social media to employees and partners by creating small decentralized groups of marketing and non-marketing employees across disciplines. The marketing team was involved in strategizing, making guidelines, training and educating IBM employees on new technologies. Also, it governed social media activity across the organization.

Forrester, an analyst firm, released the report on findings called ‘IBM Makes Social Media The Responsibility Of Every Employee’ from the social media. Jeff Ernst, principal analyst at Forrester, said

[Companies should] begin using their core marketing staff, then implement social as a job responsibility for all employees,’ and added ‘Creating a cultural affinity for social media allows employees to use both internal and external tools to build relationships and identify ways to improve the business. This creates efficiencies of scale and encourages best practices’.

Social media is gaining popularity, however, with each blunder, organizations are realizing that social media is not as easy as one might imagine. Also, that a lot of research is required before going into social media as an option or hiring top social media agencies . The following are famous blunders on social media.

1. Wall Mart on Facebook : After Target’s successful stint with social marketing, Wal-Mart decided to try its luck too. However, it used a different approach to restrict comments and feedback on its Facebook page to “Wall Posts”, while Target set up a discussion board. When Bloggers took notice of this lack of conversation, it resulted in anti-Wal-Mart posts on the wall. Apart from providing a discussion board for its users, other blunders were that they didn’t study the media enough to see how it works, additionally their general target were older people and were publishing content in a media that is younger, worse still they did not rebrand in this medium to attract their target new audience.
2. InsidetheBCS on Twitter : The BCS system was considered flawed by many college football enthusiasts. However, the company performed public suicide by taking this flawed argument and made it even more visible on Twitter. They hired a public relations firm to help highlight the positive aspects of the BCS. Also, for most part of their first few tweets all they dealt with was image management. Needless to say, this invoked a lot of responses by angry fans.
3. WPMI-TV’s Twitter Billboard : An Alabama news station, WPMI-TV, decided to put up tweets from the LOCAL15NEWS Twitter account on a highway billboard. The 30 ft billboard was used to display tweets, as a way to connect to the station’s follower. It adorned an image of three of its most photogenic anchors, and added a live Twitter feed. The problem was that some of the tweets caught drivers’ attention because of their rather graphic nature. One time though one of the readers took a picture of a tweet with a concocted tweet that lead to the suspension of WPMI-TV’s general manager and news director. (Image Credit – Palmetto Scoop via Mashable)
   
4. Skittles on Twitter Campaign : Although it should have worked out in their favor, Skittles underestimated the power of tweeting when it utilized Twitter. They had created a website that pulls content from Twitter when anyone mentions ‘skittles’. Twitter users felt let down because there was really no communication with the product or the company, instead their posts were just used as fodder for the sites website. What followed was Twitter users posting profane messages on Twitter with a mention of ‘skittles’. All these messages were pulled into their website. This forced the company to move the Twitter feed from being prominent on the page to a small link in the page.
5. Ryan Air and the Blogger: In 2009 a blog post was put up which pointed out problems with the Ryan air booking system. During a booking, a web developer named Jason Roe spotted that the cost of his ticket was at £0. He blogged about this on his site explaining what he had seen and including screenshots. However, Ryanair staff started commenting on the post in an aggressive and unhelpful manner. The Ryanair staff comments made the blog post very popular and a very entertaining read. The Ryanair employees ended up losing a few prospective clients because they just didn’t address the problem and went on a defensive and rude approach.
6. Time Warner : While competing companies had made a name for themselves with their helpful social media customer service, Time Warner has gone another route: squatting on the username TimeWarnerCares. However, TimeWarnerCares, unlike its competitors, didn’t bother to follow anyone, so they had no way to know who wanted to talk with them. Additionally, the twitter page had no bio, photo or link to a website to indicate who was writing these blogs. This social media, it is safe to say, died its natural death.
7. Vodafone on Twitter : One of Vodafone’s UK employees posted some derogatory comments on homosexuals as a tweet on Vodafone’s Twitter page . This could have given a big blow to the company and its reputations, because a lot of readers reacted and started to debate on the tweet. There were some speculations that the Vodafone page was hacked. Vodafone, however, reacted quickly to the tweet, and apologized. They also confirmed that it was breech of rules, that their page was not hacked, and that they were sorry. They also apologized to each twitter tweeter, removed the tweet, and fired the employee.
8. HabitatUK on Twitter : In an attempt to promote the spring collection an intern from the company hash tagged current topics to the HabitatUK’s twitter page . This list included the Iranian Presidential election that caused 12 deaths; this caused a lot of outrage and anger from many Twitter Users. However, HabitatUK instead of apologizing immediately just deleted the tweet until they were eventually dragged into an apology because the controversy was getting bigger, and the damage was already done.
9. BP, the Oil Leak and the Social Media : When the Gulf of Mexico had an uncontrollable spill for what seemed like a 100 years, BP was getting all the attention for all the wrong reasons. The embattled oil company made high costing advertisements, set up a Facebook page and a Twitter page to show that they were doing everything in their control to clean up the mess. However, this effort was a too little and too late. By this time too much of time had passed and BP was criticized for spending all the effort and time to promoting themselves as opposed to stopping the leak and starting the cleanup operation.
10. Toyota Australia and Social Media: Saatchi & Saatchi an advertising giant won the pitch for Toyota in Australia to launch a social media campaign. Their idea was to host a viral filmmaking contest featuring the Yaris car model. But the campaign embarrassingly saw no entries submitted and gained very few Facebook and Twitter followers. This was followed by a desperate attempt by Saatchi to up the numbers by sending out an even more embarrassing call-to-action email to production companies. If that was not embarrassment enough, the viral video advert, that was finally selected as a winner offended many viewers with its sexism and overtones of incest.

Maybe there are more such failed campaigns you might have come across, we would like to hear the same from you. Share it via comment and let us know!

Users are majorly accepting Window Phone 7 which is the recently launched OS from Microsoft. And beyond doubts users for Twitter the microblogging service are increasing day by day. So the great news here is that, now users can pair their Window Phone 7 with Twitter a new client that is released by Twitter. This mobile application is offered by Twitter and adds to the list of software solutions that are already released for the handset users on other mobile platform out there.

Twitter blog reads –

There is a new addition to our mobile family: Twitter for Windows Phone. This Twitter client is available now for all Windows Phone 7 devices. We want you to be able to get Tweets quickly and easily, no matter what device you’re using, and the clean design of the Windows Phone platform is particularly great for this.

Users can enjoy all the features that come with other mobile clients with the new Twitter for Window Phone. The major features includes timeline, suggested users, messages, lists, in addition to the possibility to make a new account straight from the application.

This is “a great way to explore Twitter without even logging in. You can sign up for an account right from the app as well. The app is really fast, and we think you’ll enjoy the experience,” the blog adds.

The Twitter for Windows Phone client comes from the partnership with IdentityMine. In addition, the company states that the app was built using open source REST API library as the base, Tweet Sharp.

Twitterfeed is an amazing platform especially for publishers that allow you to feed blog into Twitter. User need to provide the URL of blog’s RSS and input how often you want posts on Twitter and twitterfeed will take care of the rest. Now in order to help publishing service Twitterfeed has joined hands with UK startup SkimLinks that will offer publishers an option to automatically turn product links and references on blogs into affiliate sales links.

Twitterfeed blog read out –

we’re also introducing a new promotional partner, called Skimlinks. As a publisher, Skimlinks enables you to monetize your blog in multiple ways and you should now be able to sign up straight from your dashboard.

Skimlinks can help you earn money from your blog’s content effortlessly and transparently. The innovative technology works in two ways, converting your normal links into affiliate links, and turning product references in your content into relevant, geo-targeted shopping links.

These links can make you money every time one of your readers clicks through and makes a purchase, with a seamless, automatic process behind-the-scenes. You keep doing what you do best, and Skimlinks takes care of the rest, linking you up immediately with more than 12,000 international retailers, and unlocking all that cash that’s hiding in your content.

Twitterfeed by now has huge market penetration, which is used to automate publishing to Twitter for large and small organization. SkimLinks will over-write links to products with affiliate links to any available vendors, and typically takes 25% of the affiliate revenue resulting from purchases originating on a publisher’s site. Publishers keep 75% of revenue in return for producing the content and providing distribution. This will truly help publishers to earn money easily!