Here are my top five Twitter tools and sites for getting the most out of your twitter account and automating as much as you can to make your twitter experience, quicker & easier...

1st up, the most essential tool for any serious "twitteree", or "twitterette", imho, is a desktop app to make the whole experience easier.

I started off with Thwirl and liked it's simplicity, but then came across TweetDeck

The first time I looked at TweetDeck I have to admit, I didn't like it, mostly because of the black color, but now I wouldn't go back to Thwirl.

TweetDeck just presents tweets, @'s and DM's in such a clear way it's easy to keep track of what's going on, which can be very important when you end up in a 4, 5, or 6 (or more) different conversations at the same time, with a mix of @'s and DM's coming at you left right and center!

With TweetDeck you know exactly where everything is...  Read more... (839 words, 1 image, estimated 3:21 mins reading time)

I'm still not sure I do..</p>

I've been using Twitter on and off for a couple of weeks now, I'm still updating on a fairly sporadic basis I've not quite got in to a habit yet, although adding the Twitter plugin to this blog has helped to remind me.

I actually signed up for an account at the end of Jan, but when I logged to check it out, I really didn't get it..

It was only thanks to Matt Backak  deciding to "follow" me that I went back for another look, partly because I had no idea you could "follow" someone, and partly because I had no idea how Matt had found me or would want to follow my "Twitters", I still don't know why..

I checked out Matt's page and suddenly "got" the idea of following someone else's twitter's so promptly started "following" a whole bunch of people who's name's I recognized and suddenly started to "get" it, a bit, although it does seem that people use it quite differently.