As a social media manager who’s always on the go, you can be sure to rely on a few important apps to keep you engaged and connected with your community. Here are the best apps that are highly recommended:
1. Tweet Deck
With this app, people can personalize their Twitter experience with streams, groups, auto-updates, and saved searches to help them stay up-to-date on intriguing people and topics. This free app allows users to keep track of what other people are saying about them and provides updates through links, videos, photo shares, and tweets.
2.HootSuite
This application allows companies to use the social web to launch their marketing campaigns, increase and identify their audience and distribute targeted messages on various channels. Through the HootSuite dashboard, groups can collaboratively schedule updates for WordPress, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and a host of other social networks across mobile, desktop, or web platforms. Teams can follow industry trends and campaign results. A basic membership costs nothing; a pro membership is priced at $5.99 per month.
3. Gowalla
This free application allows users to share the places they visit with contacts and friends, using videos, images and posts. Social media experts can connect with Gowalla through Twitter and Facebook. Gowalla currently offers native apps for iPad, Palm, Blackberry, Android, and iPhone. Third-party developers may offer support for additional phones in the future.
4.Shareholic
This free tool for Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, and additional browsers, allows users to share every page, anytime, with over 100 services like Twitter, Facebook, Google Mail, LinkedIn, and WordPress. This tool allows users to streamline their bookmarks as well as locate new materials as they come online.
5.Cinema
It is a mobile social media player that provides a lot of features to users. Available for Symbian/S60, as well as Windows Mobile 5 or later smartphones, Kinoma Play is priced at $29.99, with a free trial offer. The company also offers a FreePlay version.
6. Bookbinder Friends
Bring friends together from a spectrum of social networking websites, including Digg, YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook, even if the friends don’t join your free service. Friendbinder allows users to keep track of each friend within one place and allows users to post replies and replies.
7.Twollo
Want to cut through the noise of billions of Twitter accounts? This is done to help Twitter users find a more limited audience for their posts. There is a 4-day free trial offer. After that, it costs $5.99 per month for 5 keywords; $9.99 per month for ten keywords; $19.99 per month for twenty keywords and $59.99 per month for unlimited keywords. An annual subscription for five, ten and twenty keywords is also available.
8.Chirpstats
Formerly called Twitless, it’s a Twitter follower statistics tool that notifies Twitter account holders when someone unfollows you and lets them know. This service, which can be obtained by following Chirpstat on Twitter, will graph a user’s follower history over a period of time.
9. Nest Cleaner
Created by a staff curious about the orderly life, this app helps users to build their fan base in twitter marketers, serial followers and other people. This free app removes followers that have been inactive for a certain period of time, helps create a whitelist, and allows users to review a list of accounts.
10. Plug
Simplify tweeting through scheduled tweets. This app also allows users to increase their followers and find their content. There is a thirty day free trial offer. A plus account is priced at $7.95 per month, a premium account is $9.95 per month, and a max account is priced at $19.95 per month.
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