Top 20 Social Media Resources

Social Media is scattered around the whole diversified World Wide Web. Every business has a tendency to dig into it and leverage the true power of this emerging trend. There are many social media sites out there, few general and broad in scope covering almost every aspect of social cloud. Others focused on a specific niche area. This is your little task as to find out the one's which suits your business and social needs well. So these top 20 social media resources contain both type of sites and it is recommended that you visit each of them, leverage your business and harness the potential of becoming social with your customers base. The data has been collected from various platforms, tools and utilities and the factors to rate were like page views, rankings and average growth of a website over a specific period of time etc. Remember always that the days have gone past when only performing few SEO activities were sufficient enough to rank a site higher in search engines, it is now becoming more important to realize that social media optimization is going to play a major role in 2010, as it did to some extent in 2009.

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Free Tools and Services for Bloggers Part 3

Bloggers do not just write articles! They have to do a lot of things to manage and promote their blogs. These activities range from commenting to finding useful design and software tools. Often such tools are life savers, allowing more time for the business of writing and keeping readers happy. But at the same time, finding perfect tool for a task is difficult and time consuming. So, we searched internet for best free blogging tools and services for bloggers and summed them up in this post.

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1. Zemanta: Zemanta is a content suggestion tool that searches for related content (articles and pictures) around the web and also suggests tags and links. Zemanta has been one of our favorite plugins here on Blogging With Success. Recently, Zemanta announced support for Opera, Safari and Chrome. With this, major browsers are covered and it can be considered a complete solution for bloggers.
2. Copygator: Search web for duplicate copies of your content. Also gives a subscription option so that you can stay updated via email about scrapping.
3. OpenOffice.org: It is a free open source alternative to Microsoft Office. Do not worry, it works with Office files. OpenOffice.org Write, the word processor lets you export files and PDF and retains links. Useful for creating e-books with links. Note: This is not an online tool.
4. Ping-O-matic: Automatically pings(notifies) online services about your blog updates.
5. Pingoat: Another automatic pinging service.
6. LinkWithin: A related posts widget/plugin for Blogger, WordPress and other platforms. No signup, no ads. Just place code and related posts from archives will be shown under posts.
7. BlogThis!: Add to Firefox browser, a toolbar to access to Blogger’s ‘blogthis’ feature where you can  make a blog post without visiting blogger.com. Use this interface from a page or article you want to ‘blog about’ — it seeds the draft post with highlighted text, the website url and any other text you want to key in, on the spot. Works with Firefox and Internet Explorer.
8. StumbleUpon:  Browser toolbar lets you discover web sites based on your interests and refer them to your SU friends.

Design:

1. BrowserShots: BrowserShots is a free website that lets you get screenshot of any website. More than 70 browsers are available and you can request any number of shots for free.
2. FireShot: A Firefox or IE extension that lets you create customized screenshots of your web pages. There are tools that let you edit the snapshot and add text annotations. This software is good for web developers, and for communicating unique graphics to your blog readers. Captured & edited images can be downloaded as png, jpg, gif or bmp formats or uploaded to a free public screenshot host.
3. MoFuse: Mofuse lets you create a mobile friendly version of your website for free. You can customize colors, logo and even put ads on it without paying a penny.
4. DaButtonFactroy: Lets you create buttons for your blog. You can customize almost everything from background shadow to text and colors etc. Here’s a demo button:
   
5. Favicon.cc: Lets you create a free favicon. You can even add animation.Here’s a tiny animation by Mr I (as he admits, not a big artist, so no wonders here.)
   
6. WordPress Theme Generator: Lets you make your own two/three column WordPress theme for free. Colors, header image and width of sidebars can be changed.
7. PsycHo Free Template Generator: Generates Blogger template. You can customize number of columns, color scheme etc. Note: This tool is being redesigned and new version will be online soon.
8. I Like Your Colors: Like colors on webpage and want to know HTML codes for them? This tool extracts all the colors from a given page and shows the corresponding hexadecimal values.
9. ColorZilla: This is a Firefox addon that uses an eye dropper icon as a color-picker. Get color codes for anything on any webpage. Also use there different color palettes and select or compose the right color you want from a slide rule for hues and saturation. You can also zoom any online page! Useful for those tiny font messages you might get, which someone forwarded from a mobile device.
10. Firebug: Yet another Firefox addon with a wealth of development tools that let you edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript on any web page.
11. CSS Portal : An excellent guide on using Cascade Styling Sheet elements to format text inline, overriding your template defaults.
12. Easy Calculations: Use this to convert colors form RGB to hex and vice-versa.
13. WebDeveloper: A menu and a toolbar extension for Firefox with various web developer tools that  allow you to  analyze all the different parts of a web page, including the CSS per element and outline objects. You can edit CSS on the screen and save the code to later update the template.
14. Degraeve.com: This software generates a palette of colors that match and complement any image your provide. You can match theme colors to a key component in your header for example.

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Free Tools and Services for Bloggers part1

Bloggers do not just write articles! They have to do a lot of things to manage and promote their blogs. These activities range from commenting to finding useful design and software tools. Often such tools are life savers, allowing more time for the business of writing and keeping readers happy. But at the same time, finding perfect tool for a task is difficult and time consuming. So, we searched internet for best free blogging tools and services for bloggers and summed them up in this post.

Advertising:

1. Blog Banner Clicks: Blog Banner Clicks lets you place your 125×125 banner on their homepage for free. Banners are ranked according to number of clicks. More clicks you get, more exposure you get.
2. EntreCard: Entrecard is a blogging network where you can buy and sell ad space for credits. Perfect for newbie bloggers as you can advertise without spending a penny.
3. AdGridWork: AdGridWork is a free targeted network for websites and blogs. You have to place your ad on your blog and after that, your ads will be served. They offer a lot of statistics for ad tracking.
4. Chitika AdPro: AdPro is a free offering from Chitika. They let you sell space on your blog directly without any fees and set up advertiser accounts so that advertisers get all info they need about ad performance. And you get 100% revenue after all this!

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15+ Excellent Free Social Bookmarking Icons

Social media has revolutionized the world of blogging. With more than hundreds of thousands of Twitter users and Facebook users, we can truly say that, we are currently in the social media age. It is very important that you connect yourself with the social media to make the best out of your blog. Displaying unique and eye catching icons play a vital role in increasing the number of visitors to connect with you on the social networking sites. So, I have compiled a small list of the attractive icons in this post. Just have a look at them!!!

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I hope you found some interesting icons in the above list. If you did not find one of your kind, then please do wait for few more days. I will publish another set of icons in the upcoming weeks. Subscribe to my blog, so that you don't miss the updates!!!

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Guest Post - How to delete Twitter Account ?

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29+ Popular Social Bookmarking Sites List

Pulling traffic to your blog is getting innovative, fun and interesting. Since the introduction of bookmarking sites, the old paradigm of pulling traffic through search engines and back links has gone on the back burner and the new norm is, social media interaction techniques. I have compiled the most popular bookmarking and social media interaction sites, which can help your blog expand its reach with minimum efforts.

 

StumbleUpon -It is the most popular bookmarking site among bloggers. StumbleUpon uses innovative approach of discovering and rating the web sites, and sharing them among peers with similar interests.

Twitter - Possibly the second best social networking and micro-blogging site. You can easily share your blog content over E-Mail,SMS and instant messaging using Twitter services, and it propagates rapidly among users who have signed up to receive your content.

Digg - Another popular bookmarking site, which integrates bookmarking, blogging and feed syndication under one roof.

Del.icio.us - One of the popular social bookmarking site, which allows users to tag the web pages with keywords.

Reddit - A social news web site, where users can post links to their content. Users can also vote and comment on the bookmarked links.

Sphinn - You can search news, take part in discussion forums, and search for relevant web content. A hub for Internet marketing professionals.

Furl - A very popular bookmarking site, which gives you 5GB of space to store your bookmarks with full copies of web pages.

Technorati - It is search engine for blogs. You can find millions of blogs in the Technorati index on diverse topics. You can easily sign up and can get your blog listed in one of the most rich blog index on web.

Mixx - Submit your favorite links, news, videos and much more on this excellent web content tagging site.

Spurl - An easy to use, effective bookmarking site that keeps tracks of all your bookmarks. You can export and import your bookmarks to and from various file formats.

Diigo - It not only allows you to bookmark and tag web pages, but a unique feature to add sticky notes to specifically highlighted part or whole of the web page.

Fark - Excellent option to submit your links, which are commented and voted by the fark community and get listed on the home page of the site.

BlinkList - Submit 'Blink' your favorite web content and share them with people. You have the option to keep it private or share publicly.

Slashdot - Basically a technology related new website, where you can post and comment the technology related web content.

Propeller - Another good site for submitting your favorite web pages and commenting yours as well as on other's submitted web content.

Google Bookmarks - As the name implies, good bookmarking tool from the web search giant Google.

Plugim - It is a very popular internet marketing community, where people shares articles, projects and of course web pages.

Jumptags - Very intuitive, neat and clean interface. You can easily bookmark your web links, videos, notes, RSS feeds, contacts or just about anything on web.

Linkagogo - Yet another bookmarking site. You can easily organize, share, import and export your bookmarks from anywhere.

Oyax - A social bookmark manger. You can easily add your web links and share it with Oyax community. Oyax is an initiative of 'Linux Exchange Community'.

Tagza - Very interesting social bookmarking site. Comments and voting, on submitted web content is handled in very unique way, and is listed according to accumulated comments and votes.

Backflip - Tag and store your favorite web pages on this popular 'backflipping' site. You can share your bookmarks easily with the community, and can import it easily from the central server.

Newsvine - Submit your stories on diverse topics and share it with the community. Interface is extremely good.

Bibsonomy - Community driven social bookmarking and publication sharing system. Store and tag your bookmarks with keywords on the server, and share it with peers.

Swik - Another community driven resource for people who use open source software. Submit and share news, articles and other cool stuffs from open source arena.

MyLinkVault - Easily manage your favorite links with this excellent bookmarking service. Tag, organize and share your links with extremely easy and pretty interface.

Folkd - Yet another community driven social bookmarking service. Post, share, tag, comment and vote for your favorite web content.

Faves - Rich index of web sites submitted by faves community and is growing day by day. Discover and share new web sites with this excellent tagging and bookmarking service.

Indianpad - A social bookmarking and blogging site. Users can comment and vote on the submitted content.

Danogo - One of my favorites. Here not only you can bookmark and share, but also blog, place your ads, play online games, and ask questions and shop.

HealthRanker - As the name suggests, a place to submit and share medical and health related web content.

Ka-Boom-It - Another social bookmarking site, where you can submit your stories, articles, blogs, sites and share it with Ka-Boomers.

Bookmark Tracker - It does what it says. Neat and clean interface with no annoying ads. It is an excellent, easy-to-use web service that allows you to safely store and organize your bookmarks online and securely access them from anywhere on the Internet.

Fetch - A popular service for posting and sharing small business related web sites of diverse streams. Mostly popular with entrepreneurs having small businesses and presence on web.

Wirefan - A rich, community driven social bookmarking site. Neat interface with loads of features.

myVmarks - A simple and elegant bookmarking service.

Mister-wong - Available in six different languages, Mister-Wong is on of the popular bookmarking site.

Connotea - This site is dedicated to post and share web content for researchers, clinicians and scientists.

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27+ Best YouTube Videos To Improve Bloggers Efficiency

YouTube is filled with tons of resources for bloggers. There are thousands of videos about blogging, search engine optimization, web design, blog tools, analytics and much more. Here is a comprehensive list of best YouTube videos for bloggers.

 

Blogging Basics

1. Blogs in Plain English
2. WordPress.com - Step-by-Step Tutorial on How to Blog
3. SMM Tips - Adding an RSS Feed on Blogger
4. SMM Tips - Automatically Ping Your Blog
5. Purchasing and setting up a Custom Domain through Blogger
6. Blogger Tutorial - How to Start Blogging with Blogger
7. How Leaving Comments On Blogs Can Drive Traffic to Yours
8. Using Google Analytics To Check Your Blog Stats
9. How to add Google Analytics Code to a Blogger Blog
10. iBloggin - How to Blog from iPhone

Blog Design

1. How to create a simple blog design with GIMP
2. Customizing Your Blogger Template

Blog Monetization

1. Blogging and Google AdSense
2. How To Make Money From Your Blog
3. How to Make Money With Google AdSense
4. How to make money with Blogs

Blog Marketing

1. 3 Successful Blog Marketing Tips
2. Blog Marketing: Optimize Your Blog Posts for SEO
3. How to Promote Yourself (and Your Blog) at a Conference
4. How to Promote a Blog or Website Free

Social Media

1. Social Media in Plain English
2. Social Networking in Plain English
3. Social Bookmarking in Plain English
4. Twitter in Plain English
5. Google's Advice On How Brands Can Leverage Social Media
6. Stumbleupon - Web 2.0 Traffic Generation Secrets

Miscellaneous

1. Podcasting in Plain English
2. Web Search Strategies in Plain English
3. Basic HTML and CSS Tutorial. How to make website from scratch
4. Using Google's iGoogle to Track Blogs, RSS, & News
5. Video: RSS in Plain English

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11+ Popular Discussion and SEO Forums For Bloggers

Almost every blogger is familiar with discussion forums and take active part in it. They are a good source to learn and share the knowledge. Some popular discussion forums also send huge traffic to blogs. If you want to take your blog to the next level, then you must join these forums. Participating in these forums will give you firm ground of the blogging basics,and will also give good exposure to your blog.

 

Bloggeries Forum: It is one of the best discussion forums for bloggers. Here you will find tons of useful information on blogging. Lots of relevant sub-forums and very helpful community. Bloggeries also maintain a blog directory, where you can submit your blog for more targeted traffic.

Authority Blogger Forum: I would highly recommend joining this forum maintained by Chris Garrett. Very helpful community, a perfect mix of seasoned bloggers, newbies and tech geeks. Here you will find almost nil spam entries. Excellent moderation and prompt replies to your questions.

Digital Point Forum: If you want tons of free traffic for your blog, then you must join and take active part in this forum. Very high traffic forum with large community base. Dozens of sub-forums on almost very topic a blogger is concerned with.

Blogging Tips Forum: Yet another discussion forum for bloggers, which is relatively new as compared to digital point or bloggeries. Growing very rapidly and a must join for every blogger. Recently, a chat box has been added to the forum, so that members can directly submit their views, suggestions and similar stuff.

Blog Mastermind Forum: One of my favorite forum with unique theme and layout. Large community with some of the best bloggers giving their valuable advice. Another striking feature is long session expiration time. So even if you come after 10 minutes and start posting, you will not be asked to login again.

Bloggst Forum: Another discussion forum for bloggers with nice green theme. Good community base and very active forum. While creating a new thread, tagging is compulsory, which makes searching the archived threads very easy. Worth registering and actively participating in it.

The Blog Experiment Forum: A good discussion forum for bloggers. Large community base with active members in 3 figures. Here you will find a Developer's Sandbox sub-forum, dedicated for discussions related to technical aspects of blogging.

Blogger Forum: Excellent forum with unique theme based on XOOPS CMS. Blogger Forums also offer free Wordpress themes for forum members. Large community base and very active discussion board. Dedicated section for newbies and well as theme developers. Blogger forum also give RSS feed of each sub-forum. While registering there is a restriction of 10 characters id.

BloggerBuster Forum: A must join forum for those bloggers who have blogs on Google blogger platform. Amanda of BloggerBuster is an expert in blogger hacks and tweaks, and here you will find lots of valuable information about keeping your blogger blog up-to-date.

Blogger Talk Forum: Very lively and informative forum for bloggers. Navigation is very easy with large community base. Registration is easy and quick with no hassle. Lots of sub-forums on diverse topics, making it easy to pick the right thread for posting a question.

SEO Forums For Bloggers

Search Engine Watch Forum: A must join discussion forum for every blogger. Topics covered are SEO, web analytics, promotion strategies and much more. Very large community base with experts giving their valuable advice to newbies on regular basis. Prompt response to queries by the community members.

SitePoint Forum: Another excellent SEO forum with very active community. Here you can get lots of information about various popular PPC programs apart from regular SEO knowledge base. I would highly recommend joining this forum, as the response is prompt and some very valuable archived data.

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200+ Best Social Media Resources for Bloggers

Social Media has emerged as a strategic business promoting tool for virtually every organization with online presence, to gain rapid exposure on Internet. Investing in social media has become a norm in large number of companies for getting better feedback, low cost passive advertising and valuable direct interaction with customers. Today, demand of social media experts is growing, as more and more companies are offering the position of Social Media Expert (SME) within their web promotion department. Here is a comprehensive list of resources that will give you that edge over others to leverage the full benefits of social media.

 

40+ Free Social Media eBooks

1. 15 Free Social Media White Papers and Ebooks
2. 20 Free eBooks About Social Media
3. Customer Service: The Art of Listening and Engagement Through Social Media
4. Secret Guide to Social Media in Large Organizations
5. The Art and Science of Social Media and Community Relations
6. The Essential Guide to Social Media
7. Social Network Marketing Ebook

30+ Social Media Services

1. A Definitive List of 30+ Social Bookmarking Services

12+ Best* Social Media Blogs

1. Dosh Dosh by Maki
2. The Social Customer Manifesto by Christopher Carfi
3. Social Media Biz by JD Lasica
4. The Social Media Marketing Blog by Scott Monty
5. Soshable by James Rucker
6. Instigator Blog by Ben Yoskovitz
7. Social Media Club by SMC Team
8. Getting Social Media Savvy by Dahna M. Chandler
9. Social Media Blog: Conversational Marketing by Michael Brito
10. Influential Marketing Blog by Rohit Bhargava
11. Global Neighbourhoods by Shel Israel
12. Groundswell by Josh Bernoff
13. chrisg.com - The Business of Blogging and New Media by Chris Garrett

135+ Best Social Media Add-On Tools

1. TWITTER TOOLBOX: 60+ Twitter Tools
2. 10 Best Twitter Tools for Wordpress Blogs
3. DIGG TOOLBOX: 50+ Digg Tools and Resources
4. 12 Must-Have Tools for Active Digg Users
5. Five Great Plurk Tools

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23+ BestTwitter Desktop Clients For Mac

Since twitter has gone mainstream, the supporting applications and services are sprouting up like wildfire on Internet. Prominent among these applications are twitter desktop clients available for almost every platform. These handy applications help you manage your twitter activities in a much easier way than managing via web interface. Here's a list of select twitter clients for Mac platform.

 

Some of these clients have cross-platform compatibility and also works on Windows and Linux. The list is arranged in alphabetical order and in no way represent their popularity based on their position in the list.

Airmailr - A fully featured twitter client for OS X Dashboard. View different timelines (DM's , @replies, friends) and send tweets, replies and DM's. It also supports profile views with complete bio of the user within the widget window. You can also perform twitter search to watch selective tweets. The results are shown as a separate tab via scrollable list. Integrated URL shortening support (is.gd) and easy resizing option makes it quite flexible in usage. It has full growl integration and updates itself automatically. Airmailr uses the twitter's new OAuth standard for better timeline management with minimum delay in updates.

 

AlertThingy - This excellent application mashes up various social media services into a single application including twitter. Apart from twitter updates, you can also access Facebook, flickr, tumblr and many more such services. AlertThingy runs on Adobe AIR and is available for Mac, Windows and Linux. Business users can also access Yammer, Basecamp and Huddle from this desktop client. AlertThingy is light on system resources and has impressive interface. If you have multiple accounts on these services, AlertThingy can make your life easy with single point of access to keep you updated of all happenings across multiple social media accounts.

 

Blogo - As the name implies, Blogo is not just a twitter client but a full-fledged blogging and social media application. Blogo supports twitter and Ping.fm updates. Currently it's only available for Mac platform. Apart from twitter access, you can also post to Wordpress, Blogger, Typepad, Typo, Drupal, and Expression Engine. It has a built-in rich text post editor. Not only this, you can set automatic updates to twitter and Ping.fm accounts whenever you post fresh content on any of the supported web publishing system. You can re-size it freely and can even switch it to full-screen mode as per your convenience.

Canary - It is one of the promising twitter clients with multiple timeline support. It suports multiple twitter accounts and also recognizes hashtags. Full growl support for immediate notifications. Full URL shortening (Adjix, Bit.ly, Cli.gs, is.gd, Snipurl, TinyURL, tr.im and urlBorg) support makes it an ideal client to share your favorite content. Filters support lets you view selective twitter streams in a separate tab. Canary also supports TwitPic for sharing your pictures and iTunes integration to let your followers know which track you are listening. You can also add, remove, block and unblock twitter users at your will.

Chirp - Currently, only available for Mac platform. It is very light on system resources and supports twitter, Jaiku, FriendFeed, Identi.ca. Chirp supports multiple twitter timelines (replies, DM's and public timeline). It also supports instant search for all services with caching feature for offline use of your search results. Chirp comes with 6 different themes to suit your taste. I particularly liked the tooltip feature. that will show you the followers count of any user on hovering the mouse on this name. Chrip updates itself automatically with a small size binary making the whole update procedure lightning fast.

EventBox - As the name suggests, it supports multiple social media services (twitter, Facebook, Google Reader, Flickr, RSS, Reddit). Currently, this application is only available for Mac platform. EventBox has stunning interface that fully utilizes your graphic card capabilities making it one of the best looking twitter client. You can freely re-size its fluid interface. EventBox also supports instant notification of all new updates for each of the supported services. You can enable or disable notifications for selective services via settings option. EventBox future versions will also support del.icio.us, Last.fm and Orkut.

feedalizr - Yet another twitter client supporting multiple social media services. Apart from reguar twitter access, you can also update your Facebook status and send replies to your Facebook friends. feedalizr also has TwitPic support for sharing images with your followers. You can also access and update your Freindfeed account making it all-in-one solution for all your social media activities. The interface is quite impressive with multiple tab support for each stream. The hot topic bar lets you see whats currently hot on twitter. It is almost similar to twitscoop service. feedalizr is light on system resources and updates itself automatically.

Mac Lounge - This excellent twitter client is available both for Mac OS X and iPhone. The first thing that you will notice is the excellent interface which is very soothing to eyes. At present, this application is in public beta phase. It supports multiple twitter accounts and twitter search options. You can easily view different timelines (replies, DM's and public timeline) making things easy to manage and update. The search filtering option lets you create a separate section of selective tweets. This impressive client is not a resource hog and has promising future once it comes out of beta stage. The iPhone version is equally rich in features as its desktop version.

NatsuLion - It is only available for Mac platform (Leopard (10.5)). NatsuLion has different tabs for public timeline, replies, DM's, sent and unread messages. The interface is extremely good and the application is light on system resources. Growl notifications are tightly integrated with this twitter client. Your own tweets are highlighted with different color scheme to easily filter out remaining tweets. This application is ideal for light and casual tweeting giving you enough options to keep in touch with your followers. It is also available for iPhone covering all the features in the desktop version.

Nambu - It is one of the popular twitter clients for Mac platform. Nambu supports multiple twitter accounts and has a good interface. It also supports multi-column view for selective twitter streams. Apart from twitter is also supports FriendFeed and Identi.ca account updates. Groups, filters and twitter search makes it an ideal twitter client for novice as well as power users. It is light on system resources and updates itself automatically. You can open separate tab for every new search for all supported social media services. It shows you actual web site names of shared links via tweets. I'd highly recommend trying this twitter client.

P3:PeraperaPrv - Purely written in Java, this twitter client can run on Mac, Windows and Linux. It supports multiple tabs for viewing different timelines with auto-refresh for each stream. You can customize the appearance (color schemes) of different tweets (replies, DM's). Filtering support allows you to view selective tweets in a separate tab. It also supports URL shortening (tinyURL) to help you share your favorite links. You can also change the application and tweet font size making it ideal for people having vision problems. You can also search and favorite selective tweets from the timeline cache and can group them in a separate tab.

Pwytter - It's a light weight feature packed twitter client written in Python. You can switch to different timelines with a click of a button. Pwytter supports up to 14 different languages and has full unicode support. Timelines are cached for faster response in case of multiple search queries. Pwytter updates itself automatically and have the option of updating timelines either manually or automatically. It is one of the lightest and resource efficient twitter client ideal for low configuration systems. You can use it on Mac, Windows and Linux. It also supports viewing of separate lists of your followers and friends in a scrollable format.

Seesmic DESKTOP - I'm using this excellent twitter client. Still in private beta stage, it is destined to give Tweetdeck a run for its money. The interface is stunning giving Mac effect on every platform. Seesmic Desktop is not a resource hog at all even if several panes are opened at once. Multi-column views, search panes, custom groups makes it an ideal application for twitter power users. It also supports URL shortening, hashtags detection and automatic updates. It is freely re-sizable with option to switch to single or multi-column views. You can also hide and unhide selective panes at your will. I started with twhirl, then Tweetdeck and now I'm hooked to this wonderful twitter client.

Snitter - This twitter client works on both Mac and Windows. The Linux version is still in developmental alpha stage. It comprises all the features of a typical twitter desktop client. If you know CSS, you can easily customize the appearance (color, font size, avatars, shadow) of Snitter. You can also create a separate tab for favorite tweets. Snitter supports keyboard shortcuts to access each opened panel. Window resize, audible alerts and minimizing to system tray are some other features of this handy application. Snitter is light on system resources and is ideal for twitter users having limited following.

Spaz - It is available for OS X, Windows and Linux platform. Packed with powerful twitter search feature, it filters out selective twitter streams as per your needs. Spaz also has built-in support for URL shortening (is.gd, bit.ly, snurl.com) to share your favorite content with your twitter network. It has multiple themes and also gives you the flexibility to create your own theme via CSS overrides. Spaz is written in pure JavaScript , XHTML and CSS making it completely customizable by users. Audible alerts and separate listing of friends and followers makes it an ideal twitter client for every serious twitter user.

Syrinx - This twitter client is only available for Leopard (OS X 10.5+). Bookmarking (marking selective tweets) and integrated search feature are some important features on Syrinx. Growl notifications are tight integrated with this twitter client. It is light on system resources with neat and clean interface. Extensive keyboard shortcuts helps you manage your twitter updates fast and quick. Syrinx allows you to customize the colors as well as sound (audible alerts) that suits your taste. You can also customize the auto-updating frequency and scrolling behavior. You can also pause all the twitter updates and can resume it later with a click of a button.

Tweetr - This light weight twitter client is available for Mac and Windows. You can send files of size up to 10MB via tweetr. Just drag the files in tweetr window. It will automatically upload the file and will provide you a short URL to share it with your friends. tweetr has in-built URL shortening (hurl.ws) support. You can freely resize and drag the window to any part of the desktop. It also supports system tray integration on Windows platform. It also lets you share snaps from your webcam with your twitter followers. The file sending option and webcam support makes it stand apart from the rest. TweetIdeal for twitter users who regularly send and receive files from their twitter network.

TweetDeck - It is one of the most popular twitter clients with large user-base. Multi-column twitter timelines, powerful twitter search and custom groups makes it an ideal twitter client for power users. It has a rich URL shortening support. You can also update your Facebook account via Tweetdeck. You can also use the TwitScoop cloud to keep you updated about what's hot on twitter. Tweetdeck updates itself automatically and has various customization options including custom colors. The only issue that is frequently raised by users is the memory usage. TweetDeck is available for Mac, Windows and Linux platform.

Tototl - Currently, Tototl is only available for Mac platform. It supports 3 languages (English, Japanese and Spanish). It is one of the fastest and light weight twitter desktop client. Since it uses SSL for connection encryption, it keeps your twitter login credentials absolutely safe from hackers. The future versions may also support custom themes which will be highly customizable by users and native plugins support. Soon its Windows and Linux versions are also coming out. Tototl is ideal for casual twitter users who does not have large number of active followers. It also uses DSA signed updates for maximum security of your twitter conversation.

Twibble - This excellent twitter client is available for Mac and Windows. It supports multiple twitter accounts that can be managed as separate tabs. It has in-built location awareness support and can tell the exact location of any twitter follower via Google maps. It also understands GPS positioning sent via twibble mobile. Twibble updates itself automatically and supports keyboard shortcuts for fast and easy account management. On windows platform it can minimize to system tray. It's light weight and impressively fast with equally attractive interface. Tweets are highlighted in different colors depending on their type for easy readability. You can customize various options via its rich custom settings option.

Twidget - Currently, it is only available for Mac platform. This light weight twitter client is ideal for casual users who doesn't have large network of active followers. Some of the features include auto-updating timelines, alerts for new tweets, new version availability alert, links to DM's and twitter contacts and much more. You can also favorite selective tweets directly from within the refreshing timeline. Twidget also allows you to collapse and expand the timeline window at will. Future versions will have Growl notifications, audible notifications, URL shortening support, multiple language support and flexible resizing option.

twhirl - This was the first twitter client used by me. twhirl is the second most popular desktop client after Tweetdeck and offers tons of options for every serious twitter user. Custom themes, URL shortening (digg.com, bit.ly, snurl, twurl or is.gd), flexible resizing, audible alerts are some of the features of twhirl. You can do profile as well as keyword search with twhirl. It updates itself automatically and is available for Mac and Windows platform. It can also cross-post your tweets to Jaiku and Ping.fm. You can also tweak twitter API settings according to your activity. It supports multiple languages and several themes. Here's a basic twhirl guide for beginners.

Twitter Thingy - You can use Twitter Thingy on Mac, Windows and Linux. It supports custom groups and twitter search. You can type in your search queries is an expandable search bar at the bottom of the window. It is light on system resources and has quite attractive interface making it an ideal choice for an average twitter user. You can update your public timeline with a single click and can also favorite selective tweets. You can also delete your own tweets directly from within the timeline. Twitter Thingy caches your twitter timeline for fast response to search and updates. Automatic updates are not supported by Twitter Thingy.

Twitterrific - This twitter client has stunning interface and is light on system resources. It supports multiple twitter accounts and provides access to user profile pages with a single click. It supports audible alerts and keyboard shortcuts. You can also set custom hotkey for showing and hiding tweets. twitterrific also supports deletion of your own tweets and has customizable timeline auto-refresh intervals. Replies and direct messages are displayed inline highlighted with different colors for easy readability. Through custom settings you can also set window auto-hiding. There are two more variants of twitterrific for iPhone and iPod Touch.

Twitter Studio - It is only available for Mac platform. Growl notifications has been tightly integrated with this impressive twitter client. Twitter Studio updates itself automatically and supports profile lookups displaying user information within the application window. You can also set custom notification settings and custom twitter API settings. It also displays refresh rate limit indicator to help you set the optimum refresh rate. Future versions will support Twitpic integration, custom color schemes, tweet deletion support, custom groups, search functionality, menu bar quick access icon, iTunes plugin and much more. Twitter Studio comes with impressive interface and is not a resource hog.

Twittia - This light weight twitter client is only available for Mac platform. Growl notifications are integrated with this excellent and simple-to-use twitter client. You can view your public timeline, DM's and replies in different tabs. Twittia also allows you to set custom refresh intervals with desired volume of audible alerts. It also supports Twitpic to share pictures with your twitter network. The interface is clean and attractive making it an ideal choice for an average twitter user. It also supports twitter search for displaying selective tweets containing the keywords you are looking for. You can open multiple search tabs at a given time giving you custom twitter streams containing the keywords that are under your watch.

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