It is easy to join Twitter, but it's not so easy to find Twitter tools to help you use it properly. There is a lot of advice available on joining Twitter, but not on how to use it to the full even though there are many tools available if you know where to look.

Having mastered these, there are many other twitter tools available for you that will enable you to easily carry out many different tasks, such as attracting followers with the same interests as you and making sure those you are following are following you in turn. You could do this by checking out each individually but it is easier if you have a Twitter tool to do it for you.

Other tools involve the integration of Twitter with other social networking applications, such as Facebook and YouTube, and methods of reducing the URLs that you publish in your tweets to a more manageable size. It is certainly true that Twitter does this automatically but you have no control over the appearance of the visible URL.

Many ask why you should have to use tools to carry out these tasks, and in fact are they necessary at all? If all you use Twitter for is to make and receive tweets and to communicate with your friends and family several times a day, then it is true that you don't need any tools: you can get by just using Twitter for its main application - making tweets and sending messages withing the 140 characters permitted. Many people use Twitter as a marketing tool, however, and others use it to determine what others are twittering about, away from their usual cisrcle of follwers and friends.

Immediately you join Twitter you will probably send a few test tweets to see how it works. You will then start to try out some of the tools and services available on the site, such as trending, lists and retweets. Once you have mastered these, you will be ready for more advanced Twitter tools such as those above, or even more advanced trend analysis and how to automate your Tweets.

For example, there are tools that enable you to write out several tweets and then have them automatically submitted at specified times and dates. Sometimes Twitter is over-subscribed and you can't login. By using the appropriate tool you write out your tweet while you are waiting and once Twitter comes back on line have it automatically submitted, thus saving yourself a lot of time.

It is very easy to join Twitter and to get started using it, and if you like what you see, there are a large number of Twitter tools online for you use to simplify specific purposes and tasks. A number of them operate individually while others come in the form of plugins for blogs such as Wordpress enabling you achieve integration of Twitter with your blog.

Whatever Twitter tools you use, they are certain to help you make the best use of it, so go ahead and join Twitter and make the best possible use you can of this fabulous social networking application.