23 Free Twitter Tools Every Marketer Should Know
Management tools
HootSuiteHootsuite is a scheduling and management tool for social media. You can include 3 social profiles in a free plan. If you are a small business owner, the free plan would fit your bill. For agencies and large companies, there are Pro and Enterprise plans.
Buffer
Buffer is also a scheduling tool for Twitter. But unlike HootSuite, you can pre-determine your post time for every day on Buffer. Like Hootsuite, this tool also offers free analytics of your tweets. Buffer free plan comes with one social network. If you want to add a second one or more, you need to go for the premium plan.
URL Shortening tools
Bit.ly
Bit.ly is great for dealing with Twitter’s 140 character restriction. It also offers an analytics dashboard for your links.
Snip.ly Snip.ly is also an URL shorter tool like Bit.ly, but it
has an advanced feature of content curating option. Let’s take an example how Social Media Examiner uses Snip.ly to curate content and at the same time share their own content.
Analytics Tools
Twitter Analytics
Twitter has an in-built analytics tool for Twitter users. You can track your followers, tweets and even cards on the dashboard.
TweriodThis tool analyzes when your followers log on to Twitter and suggests you the best time to tweet.
SocialBroIt’s an analytics tool for Twitter, which also shows you the best time to tweet. Apart from that, you can track your unfollowers with the tool.
Content discovery tool
BuzzSumoBuzzSumo is a content discovery tool that lets you know the viral content for any given time range. This tool is a must have for content curation.
TopsyYou can find the recent and relevant tweets for a given keyword with this tool. Additionally, it shows keyword search volume and sentiment analysis.
Monitoring tool
TwilertThis tool keeps a track of keywords used on Twitter and send you alert emails on a given keyword every time it’s mentioned on the platform. This tool offers a 30-day free trial.
KloutKlout shows your influencer score on the platform. You also can monitor other influencers on the platform.
MentionIt’s a listening tool that tracks all your mentions on Twitter.
SumAllYou can sync your Twitter account to SumAll to get emails on your Twitter growth.
Twitter Chat tool
TweetChatTweet Chat is a hosting platform for your Twitter chats. You also can follow, reply, RT and favorite from this tool.
Twitter newspaper tool
Paper.liIt’s a unique tool that collates tweets based on some specified keywords and publish them in an online newspaper style format. It also publishes your paper.li daily automatically on Twitter.
Competition analysis tools
Riffle This browser plugin offers data visualizations for any tweep.
This tool is great for competition analysis, as it shows stats about the user, hashtags they use, links they share and many more.
TwitonomyTwitonomy offers an advanced analytics dashboard for your Twitter activities as well as that of your competitors. You can find engagement and follower insights on the dashboard.
Hashtag discovery tool
HashtagifyThis tool would show you top hashtags related to a keyword.
HashtrackingThis tool comes with a 30-days free trial option. It also shows you the most popular keywords and their search volume on Twitter.
Follower insights tool If you want to know who follows who on the platform,
this tool is a must-have for you.
FollowerwonkThis Moz tool gives you detailed insights about your followers including their geo-location, gender, most active times etc.
UnfollowersThis tool keeps a track on who unfollows you on Twitter and sends you a daily report.
Image tool
UnfollowersThis tool keeps a track on who unfollows you on Twitter and sends you a daily report.
CanvaCanva is a designing tool. There is a default Twitter image layout. You just need to design your image on the given format.
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