5 Twitter Tools for Better Social Networking

Twitter is considered one of the most powerful tools to build your personal brand. The open, democratic structure of Twitter makes it possible for anyone to have as much of an impact as a celebrity who has all kinds of marketing muscle behind them.

However, it’s easily possible to optimize and increase the Twitter impact you have, with the help of a few simple-to-use tools.

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Klout.com

This website analyzes your impact on Twitter and other social networks, and assigns you a “Klout” rating of 1 to 100, based on how many people you’re influencing. It also analyzes how you influence others – do you deeply influence a select few, or do you lightly influence a broad audience?

Parrotfish (labs.embed.ly)

This tool greatly expands the amount of embedded video, images, and other embedded content supported by Twitter. Now you can watch videos from news websites directly in your Twitter screen, not just Vimeo or YouTube.

WeFollow

Here you can have your entire Twitter network, and the network of anyone you’re curious about, visualized in an easy-to-understand map. Now you can work out quickly who is worth following – and who isn’t.

Storify.com

Want to immortalize a particular Tweet exchange, or make it easier to read and comprehend for someone else? Storify lets you make stories out of your Tweets, so others can easily read them; a narrative is much easier to follow than Tweets on their own.

Twylah.com

Twylah automatically creates a good-looking website out of your Tweets. Your followers can easily move from related Tweet to related Tweet, and Twylah also has the function for “power Tweets”, which backlink to your Twylah page.