Top Five Twitter Applications You Should Check Out
When it comes to Twitter applications, there are so many of them that many new users can become confused as to where to start. There are a few that stand out and should be considered the top five to utilize if you are new to Twitter. Based on findings by Compete, monthly traffic chose the top five applications by unique visitors, versus tweets and they are:
• Twitpic lets users share their pictures and it is the number one application on Twitter, with over a million unique visitors per month.
• Next came Tweetdeck, with about a fourth of the volume of Twitpic, but impressive nonetheless. Tweetdeck streamlines notifications and tweets.
• Digsby got third place, which wasn’t far behind Tweetdeck, and it centralizes email, IM and social networks into one desktop program.
• Twittercounter had over 200,000 visitors,
• Twitterfeed was next with over 149,000 visits and it automatically tweet posts on a user’s blog using RSS.
Of course, everybody that has used Twitter clients and applications has come to find their own personal favorites depending on why they use it. There is a wide selection of Twitter application databases like Twitdom, Twitter Fan Wiki, Twapps, TwitTown and Twitstat.
Twitterholic and TWhirl are popular and they come in at number six and seven, for those that are feeling slighted by this consensus. Many frequent Twitter fans use these two, it’s just that the unique visitor count is lower, and they are frequented repeatedly by the ones that like them in a month.
The other thing to consider is that some think it should be based on the number of tweets and not the number of unique visitors, which makes it a different list, with Twitter.com, Tweetdeck and Twhirl coming in the top three by number of tweets.
Twitter.com was founded in March of 2006 with $55M by three entrepreneurs looking to capitalize on the Facebook and MySpace phenomenon. Since that time, it has spurned a whole number of different applications to use on Twitter and it seems that everybody has their favorites, even if it is not any of the ones we mentioned.
Some like Twitter Atlas, Squawk, Twitticious, Remember the Milk Twitter, Social Comic Book, Twapper, TwitBin, TwittyTunes, Flotzam and Twitterment. All of these are popular and offer some neat features.
When it comes down to listing the top five Twitter apps, it’s hard to know what criteria to use and no matter what, you risk leaving out somebody’s favorite. It just goes to show that Twitter offers something for everybody, and the best thing to do is to find the ones you like the best to fit your own purposes.
Since Twitter has become a popular way of networking personally and for business and promotional purposes, it only stands to reason that it serves different purposes for different people, so everybody is entitled to their own opinion when it comes to the top five applications.
The only statistical thing you can do is to go by Compete’s list of unique visitors which indicates different visitors in a month versus repeat ones over and over.
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