If you’re already using Twitter (and if not, why not?) you may not have come to terms, or even begun to understand, the raft of tools and applications available. Well I felt the same, so I’ve been doing a bit of digging and here are a few I really like. Now, this list isn’t definitive. There are loads more out there, but these work well. If you have any others you’d like to suggest, please feel free to comment.

1. Tweetdeck is great for managing your tweets, groups and searches. It has a much better interaction design than your web based Twitter account. The latest version is cleverly integrated with Facebook and allows you to turn your tweets into ‘what’s on your mind’ on Facebook and vice versa. Handy.

2. For the iphone Twitterfon works well, however if you’re using Tweetdeck you can now transfer all the columns you set up on Tweetdeck onto your iPhone which is much more useful. There are clear instructions for setting this up on Mashable.

3. For searching there are a few tools for searching relevant keywords on Twitter and we’ll mention a few here. Of course if you have Tweetdeck you can search straight through that and keep the column saved on your deck. Others are ... read more >>

The moonwalking bird is enough to keep me hooked. Tweepular is more than dancing birds though. It’s one of the latest tools to manage your followers and those you’re following.

Bright pastel colors and graphics take this a step beyond some other tools. As well the speed appears to be significantly faster than most. Surprisingly it handled the large number of followers I have without any noticeable issue.

Key features I enjoyed:

• Large variety of sorts - last post, followers, Tweepular’s ranking and more.  All sorts go ascending or descending.
• Click and go - each individual twitterer can be clicked and the action done immediately.  The moonwalking bird pops up and when it’s done the screen is updated to remove that individual. No gross reload of the screen nor significant delay.
• Shows last updated but also when follow happened - the date of last tweet is useful, but for me knowing when they followed me was useful as well.  Interesting to find several that had followed on April 13 for example and hadn’t tweeted since.
• Oh yeah, the moonwalking bird.

It may not be the end all of Twitter follower management but for tonight it did a bang up job.

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