By Scott Bourne
Photographers can and do use Twitter for business. And to make that easier, here’s a list of resources that photographers might use to enhance the value of twitter.
Twitter-related Tools to Improve the Power of Twitter
1. Bit.ly
One of the big selling points of Twitter is the brevity of each tweet which is limited to 140 characters. Since traditional URLs take up lots of space, this tool enables you to use an abbreviated URL. It also keeps track off how many clicks are generated on this abbreviated URL thus providing useful feedback on what is working.
2. Twellow.com
Twellow serves as the yellow pages directory for Twitter. It enables you to find people who live near you or share your interests. This means that you can conveniently follow them if you choose.
3. Killertweets.com & Twitbacks.com
Create a personal brand. You need a Twitter background that suits the image that you want to project. Killertweets charges a price, but provides many striking backgrounds from which to choose. Twitbacks is free, but nowhere near as impressive.
4. Twi5
To check on spamming, Twitter has limits and you may only follow a total of 110% of the number of your followers. You need to quickly eliminate those who do not follow you back so that you can follow new prospects. This site allows you to “unfollow” the “unfollowers”.
This invaluable tool allows you to see all of the action in your account within one single application, enabling you to automate Twitter to run on autopilot.
Great service that helps you count followers over a period of time. Offers projections and all sorts of important data for those who are serious about Twitter.
7. Klout.com
A way to measure Twitter influence and informs you what sort of reach, demand, engagement, velocity and activity. You can use it to search for topics and find the influencers relative to that topic.
Grades your influence based on number of followers, power of those followers, updates, followers/following ratios. Also provides rankings.
9. Twitpic.com
This tool lets you use Twitter to post photos.
10. Ad.ly
Measures audience engagement.
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March 20th, 2010 at 2:50 pm
You are the master of marketing (and many other things), you have truly built a great brand (or perhaps just adapted your brand) in new media. Very impressive, particularly for someone who has been in the biz for as long as you. It inspires me to not rest on my laurels (if I had any).
March 23rd, 2010 at 5:30 pm
A great collection of resources, thanks for sharing! I’ve used a few and plan to use some others. Good stuff!
March 24th, 2010 at 6:01 pm
SWEET!!! Thanks so much for sharing!!!
March 24th, 2010 at 8:37 pm
Wow I thought I had a pretty good handle on twitter until now 😦 time to get cracking!