Tuesday 3 January 2012

The Best Twitter Software For Marketing

By Dane Robson


The social website known as Twitter was only invented a few years ago, but it has already grown into one of the most popular webpages on the entire internet. It is a simple website, with a simple goal. But since it has become such a popular one, there have been a lot of Twitter software developed for people to use to interact with Twitter more effectively.

The concept of Twitter was originally just to allow a simple way for people to post updates (known as tweets), about things going on in their lives or things that they are interested in, for others who know and care about them to see and read. And it is still used for that purpose. But it's also used for other reasons, which is one of the reasons it has become so popular.

One type of software that can access Twitter is the type that's just like every other computer program. It is a program that you can download, install on your computer, and then use in order to post new tweets, read the tweets of people you are following, retweet others' tweets, and search tweets for something in particular. These programs are the most powerful and offer many benefits over the website.

Some of the benefits of these programs are that they allow you to make lists of the people you are following. You can organize the people you are following into lists that put them into categories that make sense to you, and then choose how you want to view those lists or whether you want to view them at all. So if you have a list populated by the people you care about following the most, you can just pull up that list in your program and see their tweets only without having to scan through all of the tweets from all of the people you are following in order to find ones from those people.

This is where one of the problems lie. It is difficult to actually keep track of the new tweets from all of the people you are following when you are following such a large number of people. Programs that can access your Twitter account help with this in a few different ways.

The programs for the computer are the largest subset of this type of software. These programs can be downloaded, installed, and run on your computer to be uses as a substitute interface with Twitter instead of the website. The look of them can be changed with skins, they can be minimized or maximized, and they can even run in the background and only show a small window displaying that there are new tweets for you to read when they get posted.

Finally, there are small programs that can be installed onto a smartphone to allow you to access Twitter on your cell phone. These apps allow you to see tweets from the people you are following, or post a tweet yourself right on the screen of your phone. Some of them also allow you to retweet something, make lists, etc. Just like the computer programs do.

Since Twitter is so popular now, and each person typically has over a hundred people they are following, without a program to help them do it, it can become somewhat overwhelming. But by using a program especially designed to work with Twitter, a person can work with it much more efficiently and easily, and enjoy it more. And if they enjoy it more, they'll keep using it and it'll remain popular.

Twitter software has so many benefits compared to the website itself that it's almost surprising when you see tweet from someone who posted it through the website rather than a program now. There are programs for computers and websites, and apps for smartphones. They all help people work with the social service better and will likely continue to be used and developed even further.




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