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Twitter has become an incredible tool not just for communication, but for improving your life. Anyone can use it to expand their social circle, promote their side business, keep their coursework organized, and more. Whether you want to achieve your Twitter goals, or just use it as a tool to achieve others, these tools will help you get there.

3 Steps to Help Starters Beat the Twitter Learning Curve

For a service that is remarkably simple, Twitter is often difficult for new users to understand and to quickly turn into something useful. In fact, the simplicity of Twitter can actually be a barrier in the beginning, because there's not much to help a new user get started. So, we've put together this guide, which will help you understand the basic jargon of Twitter, find a good set of Twitter add-ons to streamline and strengthen your Twitter experience, and give you a list of 100 technology experts who are active on Twitter and are worth following.

Followerwonk helps you explore and grow your social graph.

Leading Twitter Community Manager! Better Manage Your Twitter Relationships Focus on Your Influencers, supporters & potential customers. Stress-Free Social Productivity: Commun.it analyzes relationships and helps you engage with your top members.

Wondering to tweet or not? retweet or not? Tadvise can help you! Tadvise is an advisor and assistant for Twitter. It analyses your followers and also the followers of your followers and reports you if the tweet that you are going to send is interesting (or relevant) for them or not. It also recommends you several followers, who can efficiently retweet your tweet... plus more features... Tadvise aims to boost collaboration by encouraging users to (re)tweet worthy items and thus helping you to get only appropriate stuff.

Buffer is a great tool that helps you schedule posts on Twitter and Facebook. Essentially, any given time you are online you populate Buffer with the content you want to publish and the application schedules your posts based on the days and times you configured."

Twelve most popular teacher hashtags. From a little while back but I think this analysis is interesting ahd helpful.

"Tall Tweets will help you write tweets that are longer than 140 characters. The tool will slice and publish your "long tweet" into smaller chunks of 140 characters or you can even publish the entire messages as an image. Your Twitter followers will be able to read the entire message in their timeline itself."

"In a recent conversation, I was asked what I thought about twitter as a learning tool. Over the course of the past few years I've moved from saying "I don't get it" - to feeling like it's a good addition to my Learning Tool Set. But I also think that there's a lot more help now around how to make effective use of Twitter as a learning tool. I thought it would be worthwhile to pull together these resources."

"These little bits of information" are complementary to what journalists do. Twitter is working on relevancy and heping people find what is more relevant to them, says Williams, but sees a role for journalists in helping audiences sifting the signal from the noise. He talks about journalists' role as curating the messages on Twitter, with the Huffington Post being a leader in this area. But Williams also says the company wants to build more trust and authenticity into Twitter. The company is working on reputation systems, though this is still at its nascent phase.

"Tweepi - the first and only Twitter Follow Management with stats...

Tweepi helps you make sense of your Twitter social graph, with stats.

We present Twitter Web Designer and Developer Toolbox, API and Tutorials, a series of tutorials, links, references, libraries and plug-ins that will help you do everything you've always wanted to do with Twitter.