My name is Cris Mitchell and I’m a Twitter-holic.

This is no joke, over the past few weeks I’ve found myself immersed in the inner workings of this quirky little microblogging platform. Those of you unfamiliar with microblogging please read my previous post on the subject.

If you are like me and have spent any amount of time using Twitter, you’ll quickly realize that things could be a lot easier. With that said I’m going to list my Top Ten Tools for day-to-day Twittering.

1. TwitThis – www.twitthis.com – TwitThis is an easy way for people to send Twitter messages about your blog post or website. When visitors to your website click on the TwitThis button or link, it takes the URL of the webpage and creates a shorter URL using TinyURL. Then visitors can send this shortened URL and a description of the web page to all of their friends on Twitter.
2. WP to Twitter - www.joedolson.com/articles/wp-to-twitter/ - The WP-to-Twitter plugin posts a Twitter status update from your blog using the Cli.gs URL shortening service to provide a link back to your post from Twitter.
3. TweetDeck – www.tweetdeck.com – TweetDeck is an Adobe Air desktop application. It aims to evolve the existing functionality of Twitter by taking an abundance of information i.e twitter feeds, and breaking it down into more manageable bite sized pieces.
4. SocialToo – www.socialtoo.com – SocialToo is working to complement your social experience by providing you with all the tools you need to get the most you can from those you follow on the web. We’re automating the processes needed to make this experience as easy as possible, and providing you with tools to reach your audience to its fullest potential.
5. TwitScoop – www.twitscoop.com - Great search tool for finding other photographers or people in your niche market.
6. TweetBeep – www.tweetbeep.com – Enables anyone to receive alerts by email whenever a specific word or phrase is tweeted on Twitter, similar to Google Alerts.
7. TwitterBar- https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4664 - TwitterBar allows you to post to Twitter from Firefox’s address bar. A small unobtrusive grey icon sits to the right of your address bar; clicking on it will post your tweet, and you can hover your mouse over it to see how many characters you have left.
8. Twitterrific and Twittelator Pro- http://iconfactory.com/software/twitterrific – http://www.stone.com/Twittelator/ – Both are iPhone applications that allow you to send and track tweets from your cell phone, useful for posting messages when I’m away from my computer (I told you I’m hopeless)
9. TwitPic - www.twitpic.com – TwitPic lets you share photos on Twitter, TwitPic is also included in both Twitterific and Twittelator Pro.
   
10. TweeTree - www.tweetree.com – Tweetree is a usual site for view @reply threads on Twitter. It does so by grouping conversations together so you can follow the conversation in a logical order.

There you have it, those are my 10, can’t live without tools for twittering. I know there a bunch more out there so if you don’t see something in the list that you think I should know about, make sure to post them in the comments section, I want to know.