Competitive Intelligence

Twitter Social Media Competitive Intelligence Tools

Bonfire – Helps you to chat with your Twitter friends, on Twitter. Or should it be Twitter with your Twitter friends, or should it be Tweet with your Twitter friends . . . not sure, anyway, you know what I mean don’t you?

Commun.it – Community management to help you build relationships and find new leads on Twitter, helping you to ultimately achieve your business goals. Knowledge is power, and you’ll be able to put your main focus towards the Twitter relationships which are “high value” . . . do you even know which they are? You will if you use Commun.it.

Cotweet – Helps teams manage one or more Twitter accounts by providing tweet assignments, notes and on duty status. Help your business to get more social and engage more effectively across the social web.

Disqus – This social tool aims to improve your online conversations, helping you to turn your website’s audience into an active community with awesome features and powerful tools . . . oh, and it’s easy to install too.

Echofon – You’ll never read the same tweet twice if you have Echofon, it keeps all of your unread tweets in synch between your iPad, your iPhone and your computer. Keeping your tweets in order, that’s what it’s all about, don’t want disorganized tweets do we.

Friend or Follow – keep right up to date with your Twitter activity and find out who unfollowed you on Twitter, who isn’t following you back, who your friends are and who you’re not following back. This kind of stuff can give you a very valuable insight for your competitive intelligence strategies you know.

Kurrently – is simply a real time search engine for Twitter, (and Facebook too). Just enter a search term and wait for the results to come up, it’s great, and they just keep on coming so you know who said what about anything you choose.

Manage Flitter – if your Twitter account needs cleaning up a little, then Manage Flitter is just the way to do it. You’ll be able to clean up and manage the accounts you follow, discover who isn’t following you back (shame on them), find out which accounts you follow which are actually inactive (thought it was quiet) and search your Twitter stream. You’ll even be able to link Google+ to your Twitter account.

Refollow – manage your Twitter account with Refollow. You’ll be able to easily manage and protect your circle of fellow Twitterers, establish new followers, unfollow or block undesirables, lock relationships, sort out the important bits and much, much more.

Retweet Rank – do you know just how influential you (and your competitors) are on Twitter? Wanna’ find out? With Retweet Rank you can measure and track retweets . . . simples.

Tweepi – a great Twitter management tool which gives you some very useful stats. If you want to clean up your inactives, flush out any unfollowers and follow some new tweeps then Tweepi can help you to do just that with ease. Managing your Twitter account has never been so easy, or so interesting.

TweetAdder – is an automatic Twitter management system which gives you complete control of your Twitter account, you can automatically reply to anyone that tweets you, work on your twitter profiles, automatically generate different unique tweets at the same time, on the same topic, plus a whole lot more. You can even find people to follow from a different user.

TweetDeck – Power Twitter users can have more insight and flexibility with TweetDeck.  You can focus on what really matters with powerful filters, schedule tweets in advance to suit your audience, stay up to date with alerts, manage and monitor an unlimited amount of accounts. Yep, that seems pretty powerful and flexible to me. It can also connect you with your contacts across Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, MySpace, Google, Buzz, Foursquare in real-time.

TweetLevel – is a type of online GPS navigational system, giving you the option of searching for topics by prioritizing different “sort bys” – it’s pretty surprising what you can find out with this. Why not discover your own Tweet Level for your Twitter ID.

TweetMeme – shows you the hottest twitter stories so that you can retweet them.  You can find hot stories about different topics, so you can retweet whatever interests you the most.

Tweet Responder – allows you to send messages out to multipile twitter followers all at the same time. It’s easy to use and you can follow-up up to 10 messages. Helps you to keep in touch with your twitter family, saves you time and creates countless opportunities along the way.

Twellow – is the yellow pages for twitter – don’t you just love the ingenious ways they come up with these words and names? Anyway, if you add yourself to Twellow (which is free by the way) you’ll be able to get in touch with lots more twitter users finding them everywhere.

TwitterFall – think twitter, think waterfall, now think TwitterFall . . . displaying the most recently posted tweets as they cascade (sorry – scroll) down the screen. You can search for stuff you’re interested in (competitive intelligence at its best), follow specific groups of Tweeters, you can even find out what people are talking about in a specific location – hmmmm, interesting.

Twtrfrnd – do you have a new follower on Twitter? Wonder whether it’d be worth following them back? With Twtrfrnd you can find out all about common followings, whether you’re following the same people and whether anybody which you already follow, follows them. Confused? No, it’s good at helping to stop you being confused – all becomes very clear.

Twtrland – this social analytics tool for Twitter builds profiles which are according to different Twitter timelines. You can use Twtrland to discover whether someone is worth following - to follow or not to follow . . . that is the question.

Twylah – is all about twitter brand pages, enabling you to customize the brand page for your tweets, making you into a very individual Tweeter. This can make your tweets much more professional and expert, attract more followers and help you to turn those followers into customers.

Who Follows Whom – this helps you to find out, erm – who follows who on Twitter. I bet you’d never have guessed that in a million years would you? You can pick out tweeters (up to 5 at a time) and see who they are followed by, and who they follow in common.