Top 10 Twitter Applications for Entrepreneurs and Small Businesses
Apr 17th, 2009 by admin
Lately I’ve noticed an endless number of Twitter apps popping up on the horizon. You might be asking yourself why. Why are people spending time, money and resources in creating applications for a site that is pale in comparison to a Facebook or a Google? Because Twitter rocks! I know I sound like a broken record, but if you are not using it – why the hell not? What are you waiting for?
I happen to think that Twitter is going to be HUGE – with mass, colossal potential. So my best advice is watch out world! There’s a new contender playing for keeps! And entrepreneurs need to be in on the game! Get yourself signed up and check out some of the apps below:
- Twitterific: Always on the go? Got an iPhone]? Than this app is for you.
- Twitterfeed: If you’re a blogger, you’ll want to check this one out. With Twitterfeed, you can directly feed your blog posts to Twitter and other microblogging platforms.
- Twtpoll: Polls and surveys have always been at the center of an entrepreneur’s arsenal. So why not facilitate the power of Twitter with Twtpoll?
- Trackthis: Are you an eBay seller or buyer? Do you do a lot of business-related shipping? Track all your packages via Twitter using Trackthis.
- Twuffer: This is another relatively new app on my list – and it’s a real timesaver. Twuffer enables you to create a list of future tweets and schedule when you want them to go live to the Twitterverse. Just be careful not to overtweet or spam the service.
- Twitterhawk: First things first… this is not a free app. But it is really clever and worth it for some small businesses. Twitterhawk allows you to monitor selected keywords on Twitter and then send responses. Here’s the example given on the company’s Web site: You open a coffee shop in Queens and you are trying to get the word out. “As part of your advertising efforts, you could setup TwitterHawk to search for things like “coffee near:Queens within:8mi” (of course you could simply search world wide if you are global).” From there you send targeted responses.
- TwitPic: Want to tweet a pic of your product? Go for it with TwitPic.
- Twist: This is a relatively new app for me, but I’m loving it! If you’ve ever wanted to know what’s hot right now on Twitter – track in-the-moment trends – try giving Twist a test drive.
- Twazzup: This supercharged tool allows you to search all of Twitter and return relevant results (similar to a Google search), so that you can generate leads, listen to your customers, track trends and so on. Much more powerful than Twitter’s internal search feature.
- Qwitter: It’s great to know who is following you on Twitter, but it’s even more important to know who has stopped following. With this handy app, you will be alerted when someone stops following you and what your last tweet was they could have possibly made them jump ship.




I love finding good lists of Twitter tools like this one. Seems to be so many of these, and I’m never sure which ones are good. I’ve been a fan of TwitPic for a while, and discovered Twazzup through your blog
Thanks for the suggestions!
-Shannon, The Malvern Social Club LLC
I love Twitter too but it’s like everything else on the web - you can get sucked in DEEP before you know it. While all the Twitter apps are useful they are not all needed by everyone. Twitter, and all its apps, is a tool in the marketing kit and should be considered for use. However tweeting without a strategy is a complete waste of time.
Thanks for this, i was looking for good application for twitter that i could use,
-ivy from dvdprods.com