Twitter Management Tools for eCommerce Social Media Marketing

Although many ecommerce entrepreneurs realize the benefits of social media marketing, the main thing that seems to hold them back is time, and these FREE tools can help you with time management with Twitter.

CoTweet: Designed for businesses that are taking advantage of social media platforms to build their brand and promote their online businesses, CoTweet supports customer support as well as marketing communication. You can monitor keywords and trends, get email notifications when updates are sent to your Twitter accounts, manage up to 5 Twitter accounts through a single CoTweet login, and assign updates to your colleagues for follow-up. Used by such mega corporations as jetBlue, Pepsi, Ford, Sprint, Starbucks, and many more---this FREE service is a proven winner!

CoTweet

Chirpstats: This FREE service is a Twitter based analytics package that was developed to help you track and learn more about your follower base. To use it, you simply follow Chirpstats on Twitter and they will send you your first update within a couple of days. It will tell you who is following you, and who quits following you, which is a useful thing to know. Your follower history is graphed out over time. They have new features on the way: Follower Analytics Package, so stay tuned!

Chirpstats

Mr. Tweet: This one calls itself your “personal networking assistant.” It helps you find Twitter users with interests that are relevant to your business by filtering through millions of users and presenting you with a list of 200 relevant people whom you might be interested in following. You are able to recommend people, also. There is a Firefox plugin available, too.

Mr. Tweet

FriendorFollow: This is a very simple to use web app that tells you who you are following that is not following you back, as well as vice versa. There is also a Twitter growth chart, a top 100 most followed users, plus the top 100 that are following the most users.

FriendorFollow

Remember that apps and useful tools for Twitter are being developed and added almost every day, so you should check for new ones that might be beneficial to you on a regular basis.