5 Top Free Twitter Time-Saving Applications!

I have just checked Twitter for busy people! What a long name! I think the layout is cool, I mean the way they show the tweets, but besides a good look, I can't see a real value in it, they should add retweet and reply functionalities.

As for TwitIq, I fall in love with it at first sight. It feels a lot like twitter but with some smarter simple functionalities. It is cool, but I can't figure why it didn't get me stuck. I just got back to work on twitter itself.

As for Tweepi, I am biased here, but it has been giving me real value through the past couple of months through the development process. Its functionalities are just what I needed to manage my twitter followers. It is something that I will keep on doing as long as I keep working on Twitter.

Personally, I'm addicted to TwitIq :) Downloaded Tweetdeck but rarely do I ever use it! :)

This is an excellent topic for discussion. I wish I had more experience and insight to offer.

I started out with TwitIQ when I first started investigating other applications and it was a tremendous time saver over the basic Twitter site. It has it's advantages, such as a simple reply and retweet function which I like. A lot smoother and more efficient than basic Twitter.

TweetDeck is another one you mention that I use. It has a lot more advantages than TwitIQ and it loads faster and more efficiently, but it does have some drawbacks as well. Most notable is the tendency of some tweeters to end up in Twitter Jail for excessive tweeting or sometimes for no apparent reason at all. That alone is very frustrating. TweetDeck is still in the development stage, so I guess we need to take that into consideration, but on occasion, some of the functions work and sometimes they don't. For example, if you tweet something and then realize that your question has already been answered you might want to delete your last post. Normally that's possible, but sometimes it's not possible at all. Getting connected to someone's profile is also a bit tricky occasionally. By clicking on someone's user ID, it will take you to their Profile in TweetDeck with a much larger photo and all of the pertinent information, but also occasionally it will take you to a Tweeter's profile page in basic Twitter. I could go on and on about this app, and basically I like it, but it does have some weird personality disorders.

Another free app. I especially like is 'Tweet Later'. This app will give you a lot of information about the people you are following or who are following you, broken out into statistical divisions which is helpful for determining what market segment you are trying to reach or which you are actually reaching. It also has the ability to be pre-programmed for mass-mailing of tweets to certain people or to your audience in general. That makes it a very effective marketing tool. It has a lot of other features as well, but that is it's most remarkable.

There are literally hundreds of apps and a good number of them are available for free, so you could spend days and weeks deciding which ones are most helpful. These are the only ones I am using right now, however. And you are right in that on occasion, in our quest to save time and work more efficiently, we end up having just the opposite effect by getting bogged down in too many applications so that, eventually you get to the point where you have to have applications to run the applications. You have to look at these things with a very critical eye and determine if they are actually helpful and make your use of time more effective and efficient, or do we simply get buried in technology? Sometimes a good thing is really bad.

Ok, I'll refine this list a bit more, the best one is #TweetDeck, you can use any desktop based twitter client but the taste you'll get using TweetDeck you'll not get in any other client! ;)

Faisal, we have TweetDeck on the list, and it was not meant to be ordered. Thanks for your input :)

No, that was my point of view regarding desktop based clients, I use Seesmic at work & TweetDeck at home & personal PCs, whoever I introduced TweetDeck, they loved it too..