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I came across a great article from Dumblittleman which talked about the best 10 tools to use which will make anyone a expert Twitter user.

1. Desktop apps
The best way to update twitter is through the various desktop apps like Twhirl or AlertThingy for Windows and Twitterific for Mac. They have a nice interface and let you interact with other twitter users easily. However they might fail to update when they cross the limit or twitter has technical problems and you would then need to revert back to the web interface.2. Twitrefresh
One of the main reasons twitter users prefer desktop apps and not it’s web interface is because they have to manually refresh it to check the tweets. Twitrefresh provides a solution to that and refreshes the twitter page after every 1 minute. Those who love twitter’s web interface will find this tool very useful.

3. Firefox extensions
If you are one of those who don’t like to leave their browser when they are online, then there are some cool firefox extensions like Twitterfox and Twitbin which work like the desktop apps helping you to update and use twitter from right inside the browser.

4. TwitterSnooze
If you are getting a blast of tweets from a particular follower then you may want to snooze him/her using TwitterSnooze. For example if you’ve got a follower who uses Twittytunes to update his twitter status then you could get frequent automated tweets from that person when he is listening to songs. If that gets irritating you can use this tool to snooze tweets from that person.

5. Twitterfeed
Twitterfeed is a must use app if you’re a blogger and use twitter. It retrieves the RSS feed of the blog and updates the twitter status when you publish a new post on the blog. This could be an additional source of traffic for your blog.

6. Summize
Summize is the best way to search twitter real time for any information. It also has very good advanced search features which let you retrieve results quickly and easily. Here is an article which delves further into some nice tools to search twitter in real time. Note: This tool worked so well, Twitter just bought it.

7. Twitterfone
Twitterfone is a nifty tool which let’s you post messages to your twitter account using your voice. It translates your voice into text and posts them. You can use it when you don’t feel like using your cellphone’s keypad to tweet.

8. Twittercal
Twittercal, as it says, connects your Twitter account to your Google Calendar account and let’s you easily add events from twitter.

9. Quotably
Quotably let’s you view the twitter conversations as a discussion thread and also allows you to reply to them and participate in the discussion. This can be very useful if you are looking to follow a particular discussion.

10. Timer

Last but not the least, Timer does a very simple but extremely useful thing. It uses twitter to remind you about a task at the time specified so that you don’t forget to accomplish it.