The following is a list of tools that will provide the user with everything they need to turn the social networking site Twitter into a funnel of traffic for their site.

http://tweetmeme.com/ – which lists popular Tweets as well as offering a retweet button for your site pages.

http://www.monitter.com/ – this tool lets you see tweets from up to three different topics as they happen. This is very useful for when a breaking news event has occurred.

http://twitturly.com/ – tracks and ranks the top URLs that people are talking about on Twitter. A great way of tracking not just your posts, but who else is talking about your site.

http://www.tweetlater.com ” this allows you to make tweets and set them up to be published on Twitter later that day or that week. This has both advantages and disadvantages. Sometimes, if people dont think youre posting your tweets live and you’ve just got some system to do it for you, then they can get annoyed and sometimes stop following you. However for the sake of having your tweets spread out and not in bursts all at once may be worth the risk.

http://klout.net/ – as your influence within Twitter grows, this tool allows you to keep a record of it.

http://twittercounter.com/ – a tool to show you your Twitter stats as your following expands

http://tweetdeck.com/beta/ – Is my favourite tool for keeping up with twitter in real time.

http://www.twibes.com/twitter-groups – Is a great place to find new people to follow, and new groups(Tribes ” Twibes) to join.

http://www.twitterbackgrounds.com/ – this tool allows you to put one of their free backgrounds on your Twitter page.

http://www.orangatame.com/products/twitterberry/ – Is a Blackberry app that allows you to post tweets from your phone. Just like Stephen Fry did when he was stuck in a lift recently.

It has been a Twitter protocol to follow anyone who follows you, but it isn’t by any means necessary. It is up to you to run your page as you see fit. I suggest going for quality over quantity so that your followers will then actually be interested in and subsequently read your entries.

It is important to keep on tweeting on a regular basis with quality content that you yourself would read if you saw it.