Since its foundation in 2006 by Jack Dorsey, Twitter has gained tremendous popularity and is looked upon by professionals from across the globe as a channel to engage audiences, find businesses, generate traffic, create viral impact for brands, a tool that can act as support mechanism for the companies and perhaps what not? Currently, it is ranked as one of the 50 most popular websites worldwide by Alexa’s web traffic analysis.
Realizing the sharp growth and increasing popularity of twitter many applications are developed to compliment twitter. Though the list of twitter application continues to grow, we are listing here some applications on the basis of their functionality and usage. The applications mentioned here are not in any particular order. 
Twitter Mobile Applications
ArrivedOK C2S – This twitter application allows you to tweet from your cell phone for free from anywhere across the globe. You can send free SMS, voice messages or transfer important data.
TweetDeck – It is a useful application for iPhone users, which enables you to see everything you want to see at once. Using this application you can create groups, search twitter, manage multiple accounts and easily post your tweets or share photos, link and much more. In addition, it can also sync your existing TweetDeck columns between your desktop and iPhone.
TwitterView – Another twitter application for iPhone users that allows you to see twitter updates. Full Landscape support for viewing, posting, direct messaging, inline web browsing etc. makes it an interesting application for freelancers.
Twitizer – This application enables you to send long texts, photos, video clips, audio clips, podcasts from your mobile phone and also get them published on Twitter.
vMagine – This mobile application allows you to record videos from your mobile directly to the web. All you need to do is to make a simple video call and turn your mobile into an “online camera” to share the moment with your network.
Twitter Advertising Applications
PayPerTweet – It is a useful application which connects advertisers to twitter users. It allows users to tweet only on those advertisements that are right for them, their followers, and the clients. It is a great way to connect with twitter world while marketing and promoting your product.
TwAitter – This application has recently named as one of the ”Top 5 Twitter Business Applications” by PCWorld Magazine and CIO Magazine. This Free Twitter Business and Marketing application includes features like multi-user management, scheduler, calendar, translator to convert into over 40 languages, spell checker , URL shortener, multi-user management etc.
TwitRobot – It is one of the best marketing application for large businesses and corporate users. It allows you to send product link to bulk users on twitter and direct huge traffic to your website. It also provides a list of other useful features for scheduling future tweets and posting recurring updates for corporate purposes.
TwitMesh – This application brings twitter tools at one place. You can easily use Twitter Groups, Twitter Invitations, Twitter IM and Twitter Search all at one single platform. It lets you create groups and send invitations to your followers. You can also use Twitter IM to chat with your friends via Twitter.
Tweet-U-Later – This application helps you schedule tweets for the future. The tweets can be preset for 1 minute or for 1 year. You can plan your advertising campaign by using recurring message feature, which allows you set tweets by the day, week, month or year.
Twitter applications for File storage/ sharing & forums
Filetwt – It’s an instant application for sharing files on twitter. Publicly tweet your files in twitter stream or privately send as direct messages to update your network about latest work status.
FileSocial – Tweet your files using this application on twitter! All you have to do is to login to your twitter account, write some text, and attach the document you want to share with your connections. It helps you share your files within the network easily and instantly.
TweetCube – It is a file sharing application that allows you to share files via Twitter, from MP3s to PDF, Images to Excel files. You can send your images, videos, music and more easily, and your files are automatically posted on Twitter.
Tweetboard – Using this application you can create a Twitter-powered forum for your website. It empowers you to update readers about your Twitter activities and encourage them to participate while bringing traffic to your website. It also reformats tweets into threaded conversations and allows users to follow actual discussions that are occurring on Twitter.
Twitoaster – This application works as a forum as it threads and archives twitter conversations like on a message board / forum. It helps you keep a track of background, context and statistics you may need for your project.
Twitter applications to analyze Trends & Status
TwiBuzz – This application is similar to Google Trends that lets you analyze and track on how often people are using Twitter to tweet your favorite keywords/ tags. This actually helps in creating the best strategy for your business.
Twindz – It is a useful application to find out the most discussed topics on Twitter for any 24 hours period. It is the best way to keep yourself updated about latest happenings and trends.
Twist – You can see and follow trend graphs for twitter topics and also track new hot topics to analyze and make your own business strategy. It allows you to check graphs for the last week and last 30 days.
Twitter Delay – This is a cool twitter application to monitor how fast your messages are getting delivered on twitter. You can check the graph, which gets refreshed after every 60 seconds. It is actually a challenge for twitter as more and more users are joining this platform.
TwitterAnalyzer – This application is the most advanced Twitter Analytic System in the world. Also called as Google Analytics for Twitter users by many twitter lovers. It allows you to discover many things about your profile or your friend’s profile on twitter. You can even share your statistics with your connections.
Twitter applications for Groups and Organizations
Twit4 –It is a useful application that enables companies to organize their twitter accounts relevant to their business all at one place. It helps in creating groups, sending invitations to your followers.
ConnectTweet – This great application helps organizations to add their employees and important connections to one single account. It allows the contributors to the central Twitter stream with their same personal accounts which they have been using on twitter. This approach also allows followers to connect with your employees as well.
Tinker – This application allows you to keep a track of new events and explore what people are talking about on Twitter.
Tweetizen – It is a useful application to discover tweets which are important to you. Create groups based on your interests and filter tweets that you want to read. You can find groups on technology, jobs, gossip, news etc.
TweetLaw - An application specifically created for legal professionals. It allows you to fill out an extended bio page and include themselves in up to 4 legal categories. This helps in sorting out the tweets by categories and user.
Twitter applications for Multi-account Management
ComboTweet – This application lets you use multiple accounts at the same time. It is an open source application, which includes features like auto-refreshing and twitter search. Currently this application is in beta version.
ObjectiveMarketer – This application aims to fulfill corporate objectives by enabling organizations to launch, monitor and track the campaign activities and their corresponding results on a timely basis. It features content authoring and publishing tools like posting, URL shortening, tracking, scheduling, multi account management etc.
Splitweet – It is a Free multi-account managing & brand monitoring application. It allows you to send tweets from all your twitter accounts, view your friends’ tweets, send direct messages, favorites and also get involved into the conversation with brand/keyword monitoring.
TwitIQ.com – An enhanced Twitter application that provides insight into your Twitter stream and Twitter followers. It provides features such as full twitter view, update features, keyword & topic insight into tweets
integrated twitter and blog/news search, support for multiple twitter accounts, other UI enhancements etc.
TweetFunnel – This application allows multiple users to post to one Twitter stream. It also provides excellent features like editorial control, tweet monitoring, assigning and scheduling.
Twitter applications to enhance Productivity
TweetWithURL – It is a useful twitter application, which automatically converts a long URL to a short URL in your tweet. Now you don’t need another application or a website to shrink your URL.
TwitWall.com – This application is an instant blogging companion for Twitter. You can embed your favorite videos and widgets, upload your photos, mp3 music or podcasts on twitter.
Philtro – It is a great twitter application to rate tweets and articles. This easy to use application lets you organize tweets in your own way and focus on specific topics without missing out on important new tweets. It also works as a spam filter for your RSS & Twitter subscriptions.
TweeTrans – This application allows you to translate your tweets automatically into over 40 languages. It also has a Twitter bot feature that enables you to get a translation by tweeting the text to translate.
Twit2Do – This application is useful to manage a to-do list for important work assignments. It helps you organize the important items according to their priority.
Hope these applications would help you in enhancing your credibility on twitter while accomplishing your business goals successfully. We welcome your feedback and suggestions on the same.
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