Should You Use Twitter Friend Adder Tools?
Everybody wants to have more friends on Twitter. Twitter was originally designed for people to share information and find like minded people to mingle with. But spammers, marketers, and even the average Joe have become obsessed with having more followers. For spammers, it’s really the case of working the numbers to your favor. If you are getting 1 victim out of 1000 people who follow you, then you try to get more people to increase your chances. For marketers, it’s not only about pushing offers, but also showing others what you are capable of as a “twitter expert.” Even the average Twitter users have become obsessed with having more friends. At the end of the day, the more friends you have, the better off you are, right?
Twitter is not about having more friends. It’s about having quality friends. There are a lot of folks who get more out of their 100 tweeps than top marketers do from their 10,000 followers. So quality is really important when it comes to following and getting followed on Twitter. That hasn’t stopped people from using Friend adders to get more followers on Twitter. While I am not a big fan of automating the friend finding process, if you approach it the right way and follow people for the sake of expanding your network in a quality fashion, you may be able to save some time with these friend adders.
Humming Bird and Tweet Adder are both decent tools to follow a lot of people automatically. By decent, I mean they let you find quality friends and follow them in batches instead of doing it by hand one by one. These tools are designed to help you automate the process of finding and following friends on Twitter. It’s not tough to see why a lot of people look at these services and discount them as a spamming tool. I am not going to argue that the potential is there to use these to spam people. But there is a right way and wrong way to use any tool. Even Google can be used to pull off some Black Hat tactics.
Boost Your Twitter Productivity with Social Oomph
There are a lot of people who are social media junkies. They spend hours on Twitter and forget to take care of things in their real life. A lot of experts argue that people who are into the social media might end up spending more time staying at home and tweeting than engaging in social interactions. One reason for that to happen is when you are struggling to keep up with your daily tasks and managing your social media accounts. The key is to get more done in less time. That’s where Social Oomph comes in. It’s an innovative service that is designed to help you manage and schedule your tweets, track tweets by keywords, and manage your direct messages. These are all tasks that can take a lot of your time but with Social Oomph you can get them done without too much trouble.
The main reason that I use Social Oomph is for its excellent task automation services. I am not talking about scheduling automated tweets. But I do use Social Oomph to manage my follow/unfollow and direct messages. If you have more than just a handful of followers, it’s going to be extremely difficult to manage direct messages. With Social Oomph you can do it easy. You can also use the service to track keywords and set up Google-like alerts. That way the data comes to you instead of you going and searching for it.
Create Your Twitter Lists with TweepML
Let’s say you work for a company that has a whole lot of tweeters, and you have been asked to create a list of all these folks and put them on the corporate site for others to see. Or maybe, you just want to display the list of your favorite Twitter users on your website. You can all this by hand or you can use a tool such as TweepML. TweepML is a simple but very effective service that lets you create groups and mass follow people easy with one click. Take Mashable List for instance. The group contains a list of major players on Mashable. As a visitor, you can follow all the members of this group in one click.
You can also follow the creator of the list as well. That’s why I love TweepML. You can create so many killer lists using Twitter users, and you can share them on your blog and social networking websites. As people follow those famous or power users in your list, there is a good chance you might get followed as well. That means, TweepML can help you build a following on Twitter. (more…)
5 Cool Firefox Plugins For Social Media Warriors
Firefox is the best browser for social media warriors. I know. A lot of you may prefer Flock, but I have found flock to be glitchy and sometimes annoying. With Firefox, you are in control of what you want to see on your browser. And thanks to the thousands of plugins that are available for Firefox, you can set up a killer system to tweet and mange your Facebook account right from your browser.
Using Firefox plugins to manage your social media accounts does help you stay more active on Twitter and Facebook and connect with your friends and followers in a more efficient manner. There are plenty of plugins to choose from, and there is no one size fits all when it comes to Firefox plugins. But if you are interested in managing your Twitter and Facebook accounts from your browser, here are 5 top social media plugins you should consider using:
Twitterbar: TwitterBar is one of the easiest plugins to use on FireFox. Instead of having your Twitter window open for tweeting stories, you can set up Twitterbar to tweet your stories in one click. Once you have found an interesting story, you can add your comments in your URL bar and click go!
Yoono: a wonderful add-on for Firefox that makes it so easy to manage your Facebook, Twitter, and other social networking accounts. Great way to share content with your friends and Twitter followers.
Friendbar: keep in touch with friends on Facebook and Twitter by using this plugin. You can also manage your social networking stream, reply, DM and do all kinds of neat stuff without having your Twitter window open.
Shareaholic: as the name suggests, it’s designed for folks who can’t stop giving back and sharing with their fellow community members. Lets you share links, videos, blogs, images with services like Facebook, Twitter, Digg, LinkedIn, Gmail, Yahoo. Great way to keep giving back to your network.
TwitterFox: simple but very useful. If you want to use your browser to keep up with your friends on Twitter and share your stories with them, TwitterFox is for you. It’s very simple but gets the job done.
There you have it. 5 cool Firefox social media plugins that let you manage your Twitter, Facebook, and other accounts right from your browser. If you like to be in control and manage your accounts on your browser the way you want, the above plugins come in handy.
