As a social media manager who’s always on the go, you can be sure to rely on some great apps to keep you engaged and connected to your community. Here are the best apps that come highly recommended:
1.TweetDeck
With this app, people can customize their Twitter experience with streams, groups, auto updates, and saved searches to help them stay up to date on intriguing topics and people. 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 app enables businesses to use the social web to launch their marketing campaigns, grow and identify their audience, and distribute targeted messages across multiple channels. Through the HootSuite dashboard, groups can collaboratively schedule updates to WordPress, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and a host of other social networks across mobile, desktop, or web platforms. Teams can track industry trends and campaign results. A basic membership costs nothing; a professional 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 via 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.shareaholic
This free tool for Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari and additional browsers allows users to share all pages, at any time, with more than 100 services such as Twitter, Facebook, Google Mail, LinkedIn and WordPress. This tool allows users to streamline their bookmarks as well as locate new material as they come online.
5.Cinema
It is a mobile social media player that provides a lot of features to the 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 of friends
It brings together friends from a spectrum of social networking websites, including Digg, YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook, even if friends don’t join your free service. Friendbinder allows users to keep track of each friend within a place and allows users to post responses 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’s $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. A yearly subscription for five, ten, and twenty keywords is also available.
8. Chipstats
Formerly called Twitless, it is a Twitter follower statistics tool that notifies Twitter account holders when someone unfollows you and informs them. This service, which can be obtained by following Chirpstat on Twitter, will graph users’ follower history over a period of time.
9. Nest Cleaner
Created by a staff curious about orderly living, this app helps users build their fan base in Twitter marketing, serial followers, and others. 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
Simplifies 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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