The Twitter Book

Three key tools for business accounts

As a business twitterer, you're likely to need a few extra-strength tools for analyzing trends and managing your accounts. Here are a handful we like a lot:

1. Twist (http://twist.flaptor.com) lets you compare the incidence of different topics on Twitter. It's great for getting a sense of whether one idea is more popular than others.

2. TweepDiff (http://tweepdiff.com) is a great tool for comparing the followers of your various accounts. It's handy when you're wondering whether there's a big overlap in the constituents for different accounts.

3. CoTweet (http://cotweet.com) is a third-party client designed for corporate use. It's got an array of thoughtful features to help you manage multiple posters and multiple accounts. The downside? As we were going to press, CoTweet was still in private beta—with a promise to release publicly in early summer. Keep an eye out.

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