Get More Twitter followers and Facebook fans using Online Tools

Social networking has become one of the best methods of building a strong customer and fan base. Popular social networking sites Facebook and Twitter, are helping online marketers take their products to customers. As a result, many marketers are focusing a large amount of their marketing efforts on exploiting the power of social media.

Note: This article was originally published in January 2011.
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Even though there are many methods of increasing the number of followers on Twitter and Facebook, none comes close to delivering quality content that your followers enjoy. While the online tools mentioned in this post will not help you to provide quality content, they certainly can help you to post content easily and better understand your followers.


TweetDeck
TweetDeck is a Twitter owned, web application for maintaining your Twitter account. Users can have the program split into columns for displaying different features. You can also use it to follow tweets containing keyword mentions and searches. It was previously an independent app but due to its popularity, it later got acquired by Twitter.

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Hootsuite
Hootsuite is a brand management service which publishes material not only on Facebook and Twitter, but also on other social networking sites like MySpace, Linkedln and Foursquare. You can also use this tool from your Android phone, iPhone or any BlackBerry device. You can use this service for free or pay a certain amount and have history and stats stored too. Update: Hootsuite no longer offers a free version.


Seesmic

Update: Seesmic has been acquired by HootSuite.

Seesmic is known for its credibility and can help you manage a number of social networking sites. The advantage of using this application is that it has a well organized dash board and with it, tweets, retweets and direct messages can be sorted. You can also send direct messages and update statuses from a single page.

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