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I have read many, many arti­cles about how to make Twit­ter work for you and depend­ing on your Twit­ter usage some of those arti­cle will click light bulbs on over your head and some will be Greek. I, per­son­ally, use Twit­ter to engage in a com­mu­nity as well as build my “brand”. {Psst…I really hate that word because it’s been used to death. Basi­cally I’m just get­ting who I am out there.}

There are so many apps out there now to make your time and use of Twit­ter so much more eas­ier. I’ve found two recently that I’m really start­ing to dig.

1. Ses­sion­Tweets is a great site that takes pop­u­lar hash­tags and backs them up to a .pdf file for you to down­load. You want to see the Twit­ter stream for #SXSW? Hav­ing a hard time try­ing to keep up with a Twit­ter party in Tweet­grid or Tweetchat…don’t stress. Also if the hash­tag isn’t there, scroll to the bot­tom of the site and request it.

2. Read­twit takes all the links and unshort­ens the URL, takes out the dupli­cates and you can either see it right then or get an RSS feed of them. At first I didn’t see what use this would be for me. But now, I check it sev­eral times a day to fol­low any links that inter­est me. 140 char­ac­ters might not be enough to peak my inter­est but see­ing it in a snip­pet makes me want to click through much more.

This is noth­ing new to me but must men­tion that I pre­fer Tweet­deck as my Twit­ter browser of choice. I’m tried sev­eral but always come back to Tweetdeck…because that’s what works for me.

My advice? Don’t get hung up on too many apps. Use what works for you and make it sim­ple oth­er­wise you won’t use it.