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Back to Twitter Tools
Sharing Tools – share pictures, documents, and other media
 Twitpic - recommended
http://twitpic.com/
Share pictures on Twitter. Sign in to this service with your Twitter account, upload a picture, add a comment, and it Tweets for you, including a link to the picture. It also tracks views of the pictures.
 Bit.ly - recommended
http://bit.ly/
Shorten a long URL to a short URL.
This is an essential tool for anyone who Tweets. There are many other URL shorteners; you can even find other URL shorteners that have analytics (which tell you how many times people clicked your URL). However, none has the combination of short URL, good analytics, the ability to customize your URL, and they have a well-known brand name so people feel confident to click on the links.
Here is how the URL shortening works and how you can benefit from it.
 Enter a long address in the URL line. In this example, we’ll use a product on our Sample Site. The URL starts out long:
http://www.samplev9site.com/product.asp?dept_id=36070&pfid=34775 
Suggest a Custom Name and it becomes appended after http://bit.ly/ as long as it’s available. Like a domain name, if someone already has it, you can’t have it. Also, do not use spaces, and use only normal characters (a-z, 0-9).
In this example, we'll use home1 as the custom name. When we shorten this URL, it will have home1 after http://bit.ly/
I don’t have to customize it, it can assign a random one, but the custom one is nice. I can even put that on a business card, and it’s much easier for someone to reach than the long one!
Twellow
http://www.twellow.com/
The concept is Twitter Yellow Pages.
Everyone with a commercial Twitter account wants to register their account here.
Also use this tool to look up existing Twitter accounts.
Ping.fm - recommended
http://ping.fm/
This tool allows you to send messages to a multitude of social apps at once, like: Twitter, Wordpress, MySpace, Yahoo 360, del.icio.us, LinkedIn, Blogger, Plaxo, etc.
Tweetake
http://tweetake.com/
Back up your Twitterings – no clue why you would want to. They’re online, and unless all of Twitter’s servers go away at once, probably always will be.
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