My deck from my presentation at CrushIQ in Washington, DC, on November 14, 2011. I spoke on "Twitter Tools," covering a few management, follower, and metrics tools for Twitter. In Q&A, we discussed other platforms and the merits of various services.

1. TWITTER
TOOLS

2. EVERYONE’S
BEST TOOLS ARE
DIFFERENT

3. 3
KINDS OF
TWITTER TOOLS

4. one.
MANAGEMENT
two.
FOLLOWING
three.
METRICS

5. MANAGEMENT COTWEET
TOOLS
HOOTSUITE
TWEETDECK

6. COTWEET
doesn’t try to do too much.
perfect for teams.
best for scheduling tweets.

7. HOOTSUITE
powerful, but teams are $$.
multiple accounts are key.
maybe more than you need.

8. TWEETDECK
software-based solution.
simple and powerful.
tons-o-info at fingertips.

9. FOLLOWING
TOOLS
MANAGEFLITTER
TWITTERCOUNTER
FORMULISTS

10. MANAGEFLITTER
extremely effective.
variety of sorting options.
mass unfollows are easy.

11. TWITTERCOUNTER
pretty charts, good visuals.
not always 100% accurate.
fast, big picture stats.

12. FORMULISTS
most underrated tool.
lists built into Twitter.com.
100% automated.

13. METRICS
GOOGLE ANALYTICS
TOOLS
KLOUT
BITLY

14. GOOGLE
ANALYTICS
easily track basic refs.
bonus! traffic stats.
advanced = tech heavy.

15. KLOUT
used to be good reference…
now not as reliable.
track progress over time.

16. BITLY
detailed click analytics.
add + to any bit.ly for more.
easy to forget with t.co.

17. THERE’S ABOUT
8 TRILLION
TWITTER TOOLS
OUT THERE
(okay, maybe not that many.)

18. BUT THERE’S
A LOT.
COTWEET KLOUT HOOTSUITE RADIAN6 SYSOMOS VOCUS
TWEETDECK MANAGEFLITTER BUDDY MEDIA SPROUT SOCIAL
TWITTERCOUNTER GOOGLE COTWEET HOOTSUITE
ANALYTICS BITLY FORMULISTS SPREDFAST MELTWATER BUZZ
NOT FREE
TWITTER TOOLS ADDTHIS FF
EE
BUFFER TWTVITE TWYLAH
FR
TWILIO TWITPIC TWITTERFEED
TWEETSTATS TWITTERGRADER
TWINFLUENCE FRIEND OR
FOLLOW QWITTER TWHIRL
YFROG TWINFLUENCE MR
TWEET VISIBLE TWEETS
TWITTERFALL TWITTERLESS
TWTPOLL SEESMIC PAPER.LI
TWITSPROUT MONITTOR

19. QUESTIONS?
IN-DEPTH
LOOKS?

20. THE
END
by @alexpriest