15 Hand Picked Twitter Tools ( Apps )

1. TwitterFeed.com

Send all new blog posts automatically to your twitter account: Tweeting made easy.
An alternative: Pingvine

2.MyCleenr.com

Clean the clutter: If you think you are following someone who rarely updates his twitter account, then get some help from this tool and say goodbye to them.
MyCleenr is a unique way to sort your friends by their last tweets. It allows you to get rid off all the inactive and useless accounts that you are following!

3.Tweetie

Manage your twitter account from your iPhone.
Some of the features offered by Tweetie:

Features

• Handle multiple twitter accounts.
• View your timeline, replies, direct messages and favorites.
• Browse your friends and followers.
• Post new tweets, retweet
• Reply directly to tweets and send direct messages.
• Follow and unfollow people.
• Mark tweets as favorites.
• Update your twitter location.
• View twitter trends and perform custom searches.
• Save your favorite searches.
• Uses secure connection (https).
• Go to User shortcut
• Nearby search
• Themes and adjustable font size

4.TweetLater

One of the most recommended tool, it provides these features:
Schedule tweets: Publish tweets when your international followers are online and you're asleep.
Send automated thank you notes to new followers, and automatically follow new followers, if you choose to do so.
Set up alerts and track keywords in the public Twitter stream: and get periodic emails from TweetLater which contains a digest of the tweets that contain those keywords.

5.Twollow.com

Auto Follow People on Twitter.
This free web application allows 5 unique keywords to be followed per Twitter account (up to 15 if you go for their premium service), and tells you who the application recently followed for you. It’s a great app if you’d like to have some automation of finding and adding new people to follow.


6. TweeteRate

Tweeterate extends Twitter with the possibility to rate the tweets you get from your friends.

• Rate tweets of your friends useful, funny or lousy
• See a toplist of your most annoying friends
• See how others rated you
• Easily hide annoying friends from your timeline
• Easily unfollow friends when "enough is enough"
• Get a comfortable twitter frontend (e.g. show original text of replied tweets)

7.TwtTrip

Plan your trip, share it on Twitter, and get details, comments and suggestions from other users.

8.TweetEffect

Find out which of your Twitter updates made people follow or leave you.
It does not require you to give your twitter credentials, so you can check it out for other users too !

9.TweeTree

Tweetree puts your Twitter stream in a tree so you can see the posts people are replying to in context. It also pulls in lots of external content like twitpic photos, youtube videos and more, so that you can see them right in your stream without having to click through every link your friends post.

10.TwoPular

See what's hot on Twitter !

11. TwiTrak

Twitrak lets you select a Twitter member and Trak their basic profile AND their friends and followers on the same page.

12. CelebrityTweet

Check out the tweets from famous celebrities...

13. Twonvert

If you think 140 words limit on Twitter is too short for your tweets, then give a chance to Twonvert...give a sms lingo look to all your tweets, while getting some words in to your tweets.

14. TwitterGallery

A large collection of twitter themes divided into a range of categories. The site also contains cool follow me buttons for twitter.
Check out this too: TwitterPatterns

15. TwiTemperature

Check out how hot (active) are you on Twitter !

The rate at which Twitter is gaining popularity, the number of tools and apps for Twitter is also increasing. So if this list is not enough for you, then wait for my next post on Twitter apps,
or visit these web sites:
TwitDom (Recommended)
More Twitter apps
100 Twitter apps