Twitter has always been the go-to resource for real time information about any topic in your mind. In this post, I am going to list 15 great Twitter related resources/tips that will help you make the most out of it.
1. Create a Personalized Background Image:
Having a personalized background image on Twitter will help you build your brand and increase your credibility on Twitter. You can create background images by yourself, but If you aren’t comfortable doing that use services like TwitBacks.
2. Schedule your Tweets:
Being online at all times is not possible but sending out Tweets at an appropriate time can be very rewarding to your blog or anything you wish to promote. Services like HootSuite, TweetDeck and many others will enable you to schedule Tweets to be tweeted automatically at a later point of time.
3. Unfollow users who don’t follow you:
Unlike Facebook, you have the option of one-way following in Twitter. If you follow a friend, he/she does not have to reciprocate the same. If you aren’t okay with this you can use the Just Unfollow service to find out your people who aren’t following you so you can unfollow them.
4. Find out how efficiently you use Twitter:
We all use Twitter, alright. But are we efficient? Twifficiency is a nifty Twitter app that monitors your recent Twitter activity and gives you a score based on that.
5. Tweet more than 140 Characters:
At one point of time, we all get irritated with Twitter about the fact that tweeting more than 140 characters isn’t possible. Tall Tweets will enable you to post tweets that have more characters than the Twitter limit by dividing your huge tweet into many tweets of 140 characters each and publishing them in an ascending order so your followers will be able to easily read it.
6. Find the Sleeping Schedule of People on Twitter:
Here’s a weird Twitter app for a change. Sleeping Time will analyse the tweets of a Twitter user and will tell you his sleeping schedule. I tried it with my Twitter handle and the result turned out to be pretty accurate.
7. Share your Voice on Twitter:
Ever thought of speaking on Twitter? ‘Chirps’ is a cool Twitter application that allows you to record a voice message and share it on Twitter.
8. Gallery of Twitter Applications:
Twitter has a lot of applications today and keeping up with all of them can be very tiring. For this reason,Twitdom was started. Twitdom is nothing but a directory of Twitter applications where you search for functionality you expect in an application and get relevant results.
9. An Alternative to Search Engines:
You read it right! Twitter can definitely be used as an alternative to Search engines. If you are looking for some real-time information twitter is the go-to resource since Search engines have to index a page before listing it in which case Twitter is more credible. Go to search.twitter.com to get started.
10. Follow TweetSmarter to Tweet Smarter:
There are many Twitter accounts that keep tweeting tips about using Twitter in a better way.TweetSmarter is my personal Favourite. Follow them for a twitter feed of tips that will make you an efficient Twitter user.
11. Unfollow Noisy Users:
We all have some noisy users in our Twitter stream who do nothing but promote their products. If you follow a lot of people and find it difficult to identify who spam you and who don’t, try TwitCleaner. You can also find how you are measured by this application so that you can improve the way you use the micro blogging service.
12. Track Clicks on the URLs you Share:
We all share many URLs on Twitter – usually in a shortened form so as to tweet as much as possible within the allowed 140 characters. Bit.ly (A URL shortening service) allows you to track the number of clicks on a link you just shared on Twitter. To use Bit.ly analytics you need to sign up with them and create short URLs in your account. If you are looking to use Bit.ly in an external application like TweetDeck you will need to integrate the API key allotted to your account. Goo.gl is an effective alternative to Bit.ly
13. Protecting your Tweets on Twitter:
Did you know that you can protect your tweets on Twitter? By default, your Tweets are visible to everyone except for the users you block and this is what makes Twitter unique and interesting – you can stalk with minimum effort 
You can protect your tweets by going into settings and checking the ‘Protect my Tweets’ option under Twitter Privacy.
14. IM with your Twitter account:
If you are looking to have a quick chat session with a client (who, you feel shouldn’t be on your GTalk orMessenger) TinyChat is the answer.
15. Seamlessly Follow Conversations on Twitter:
Be it an Event/Tweet up. People use a personalized hashtag (like #hashtag) to converse. Keeping up with such conversations can be very Tiring on Twitter. TweetChat is a Twitter App built to help you follow conversations easily on Twitter. It’s one of my most favourite applications.
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