@CraigEubanks shared this article.. simply a collection of great Twitter tools

10 Awesome Tools That’ll Make You An Expert Twitter User

We’ll be getting together again to write the Twitter Handbook LIVE with you, the Twitterverse.

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Last month during the 1st TwitCast, we talked about “What’s the use of Twitter?” Including the following topics/conversations:

What is Twitter

What are Hashtags

How to use Summize.com

How Twemes.com can be used

Is Twitter really “more than just chat”?

Can Twitter really useful for business?

& so much more as the community got involved

We had such great participation from the Twitterverse, which made the 1st ever TwitCast a huge success!

Adam Des Autels & Roger Bauer took it to the next level, as Adam helped to reply back to questions and comments as he tracked the conversation on Twemes & then Roger created a great video after it was over explaining the apps we talked about so that you, the Twitter user could make use of the services for your business or personal use on Twitter.

Warren & I (CoachDeb) have a solid belief about the Twitter Handbook. And that is:

The community involvement is what will make the Twitter Handbook a far better published book than if he and I were to sit down and start typing on our own.

Ever since we each joined Twitter - we’ve both learned everything about Twitter - by using it and interacting with the community filled with brilliant minds and wonderful souls - all willing and eager to participate and help one another out - either in sharing the best resources, or by teaching one another whatever they need to know.

This week - we come together again - to talk about Twitter, what it is, and what types of Twitter apps there are that you can start using to enhance your Twitter experience.

We’ll be meeting slightly later than last time in order to accommodate those requests from the West Coast, and down under who couldn’t join us to participate.

Join us if you can participate LIVE! Here are the details of this Blog Talk Radio Show:

Friday June 13, 2008
5pm HI / 8pm PT / 11pm ET
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Topic: Twitter Applications (AKA: “Twitter Apps”)
What’s YOUR Favoriate App?

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REMEMBER - whether you can join us LIVE or not - be sure to:
Add your favorite app in the comment box below so we can see which apps are most popular - and perhaps learn about new apps that the community is using and loving so others may learn how to enhance their Twitter experience.

Here’s a recap of how to use Hashtags & twemes which will be important once we begin the conversation announcing the hashtag we’ll use for this chapter of the Twitter Handbook.

Thank you Roger Bauer for creating a great video recap of the TwitCast held last month.

I’ve been talking to Damon P. Cortesi about his TweetStats app. Great graphs of your twitter usage, or any other user. (one of the best looking Twitter related sites I’ve seen, fun and useful)

Damon agreed to an interview for the Twitter Handbook.. here it is:

How did you get started using Twitter?

I first signed up in December of 2006 and then my account lay dormant until May of ‘07 when I got a few friends on it. We’re geographically spread out, but would share our daily activities and it was really nice to be able to keep up with my friends. When Twitter introduced the “tracking” feature, my usage skyrocketed as it much easier to find people interested in the same things I was.

What motivated you to create an TweetStat?

I was just about to post my 2000th update and was curious how I had been using Twitter over that time and who I had been talking to. A couple hours and a perl script later, I had some charts that displayed my usage. Once I posted a screenshot of that, I found that others were interested in quantifying their Twitter usage but the script I released was limited to those familiar with perl on OS X with iWork Numbers. I took the opportunity to learn Ruby on Rails and make a web service that everybody could use.

What results have you seen from twitter use (and the app)?

Twitter has expanded my social circle, introducing me to people not only in my hometown of Seattle, but also across the world. For example, I met up with a fellow Twitterite in Amsterdam when I was there for a conference. We had never met in person before, but organized via Twitter, had a couple beers and some interesting conversation. It also allows me to keep in touch with my good friends in a way I hadn’t been able to previously - I’m horrible at keeping in touch. I think TweetStats introduced me to a number of people I wouldn’t have met otherwise. Much to the chagrin of some of my followers who are close friends in real life, I then started tweeting like crazy.

What’s planned for the future.
I hope to continue to provide even more useful information with TweetStats. Right now it’s a site that’s kind of fun, but is definitely lacking a definitive usefulness. While it’s great to be able to quantify your Twitter activity, I’d really love to dig into the data and provide some practical information to help people analyze their Twitter community in addition to their own activity. Unfortunately, as it’s merely a side project for me and as such, new features are generally slow to roll out.