Twitter Tools

There are several tools (i.e. to monitor statistics, to find twitter influencers) to be found on the web that helps you being more effective on Twitter.Tweetdeck and Twtrland are already discussed in the paragraphs above.

BITLY.COM

Bitly.com is a tool which is very handy for shortening URL’s. Often you want to refer to a URL in your tweet however that would take up all your 140 characters. Bitly.com has the solution for this, you need to paste your URL in the box and it will automatically shorten the URL for you.

If you create an account on Bitly.com it also provides you insights in who have clicked on your bitlink, who and where it was shared. Therefore if you use Bitly.com make sure you are logged in, so you are able to monitor the statistics of that particular bitlink.

SUMALL

SumAll is ideal for monitoring the statistics of Twitter. When you are logged in you are able to see several statistics such as the number of retweets and followers, the mention reach and mentions in one click. It is possible to set the time range from which date you want the statistics to see. It also shows you the data in clear graph including numbers.

TWITTER ANALYTICS

Twitter Analytics provides you all sorts of analytics. If you head to the tab ‘tweet’ it demonstrates in a clear graph the number of impressions you have earned in a certain time range (that you are able to set by yourself). It also shows you the overall statistics such as number of retweets, engagement rate, link clicks, favorites and so on. Within the time range it is also shows you per tweet in that particular time range, the impressions, engagements and engagement rate.

When you head to the tab ‘followers’ it provides you all kind of statistics on the numbers of followers, their interest, gender and location of the followers.