Top 10 Twitter tools for business

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TweetGrid

Imagine those science-fiction movies where somebody watches multiple TV monitors on a grid to see exactly what is happening everywhere in the world.

TweetGrid basically works on the same principle, but instead of screens, you’re looking at Twitter updates. The web application allows you to search up to nine terms in real-time, in effect creating a monitoring dashboard.

Many clients such as Tweetdeck already allow you to do multiple searches, but with TweetGrid you don’t need to download anything or use a Twitter login.

It searches for up to nine different conversations, topics, events, hashtags, phrases, people or groups in real-time.

GroupTweet

This is a very simple but useful service for businesses that want to broadcast tweets to their own users, but would rather not let the whole world see the messages.

This could be useful if you have a team working on a project and you would like to broadcast quick Twitter messages and updates that could have confidential information.

It also allows a boss to communicate through the Twitter channel to his employees without anybody else reading the message.

There isn’t any limit to how many users you can message, so both small and big businesses can use it, but it does live or die on whether workers will trust using Twitter for private conversations.

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