Tweet Elite Pro is the new Twitter application that I have been beta testing for the last 2 months. In that time, it has added over 8000 targeted followers to my account with almost no effort on my part.

The software is only being used by 4 other people but is going to be made available to the public at 3 pm EST today. Well , there will be 100 accounts made available. The software is extrememly powerful so the creators are only going to accept 100 new accounts during the pre launch.

This Twitter tool does much more than add followers. I am not going to list them all here because I don't fell like writing a novel. Let's just say that it does just about everything my list of Top Ten Twitter Tools does and more.

You can find all the details when the site goes live today. Now since this is such limited offer, I twisted the owners arm and got him to agree to let me send some people to an "early bird" link. This will give you a jump on every one else plus you can get a discount and trial offer as well.

Click on the link below and sign up for the VIP list. Then you will receive an email with the special link so you can secure one of the 100 spots.

http://tweetelitepro.info

Everything I do is double opt in so don't forget to confirm or you will miss the email today at about 2:30 pm EST.

Update: The site is live!!!

http://www.oventures.net/tweet.html

I have been putting together a top ten Twitter tools list. First of all I would like to say that I never realized there were so many 3rd party Twitter applications out there. A lot of them are duplications of each other albeit some may have a small twist that discerns it from others.

I have broken them down into several categories. Functionality, automation, and design. My favorite so far is a program that falls in the functionality category called Tweet Deck. Tweet Deck puts your Twittering on steroids.

It opens a window that lets you create columns that you can customize and filter for example, when I am Twittering I have a column of "All Friends" which is what you would normally see, a column with "Replies" (same as the replies page in Twitter), but then I have one for "Fortunate 500" which are the students in Alex Jeffreys first coaching class, and then I have a column that is just a few select friends.

Pretty cool but this is only one feature. In the columns you see the avatar and tweets like normal Twittering. If you mouse over the avatar, 4 buttons pop up. Reply to this person, Direct Message to this person, Retweet this persons tweet, and Other Actions. The other actions brings up a drop down list with Follow, Unfollow, Email Tweet, translate, untranslate, add to group(column), view profile, search, favorite, mark as read, and delete.

At the bottom of each column are some more buttons that do the following: move column left, filter the tweets in this column, mark all as seen, clear seen tweets, clear all tweets, move column right. But wait there is more.

At the top of the window is another row of navigational buttons. These buttons open up the various columns like, replies, direct messages, groups, etc.. There is also a button that opens Twitscoop which is a "tag cloud" of sorts that shows you what everyone is tweeting about. Another button takes you to 12 second TV, which may give Twitter a run for its money if it catches on.

There is a button that takes you to StockTwits and to the top right are 4 more buttons which are Refresh, single column view, settings, and Logout. The most important button is the first button up top which is the Tweet button.

This opens a standard Tweet type box but it has a couple really neat features. There is a place below the box where you can enter a URL then click on a button and it will shorten the URL and insert it into your tweet. There is also a TwitPic button that will take a picture from your computer and load it to TwitPics while creating a nice little short URL in your Tweet to the picture.

Have you typed in to many characters? Not a problem. The box will turn red, letting you know that you have exceeded the 140 character limit. But not to worry. There is a button called Tweet Shrink which will automatically make your Tweet fit.

Last but not least there is a recent hash tags button. Tweet desck is easily my hands down winner for ease of use and functionality. You can do almost everything you need to do right from the one window. Of course, like most Twitter apps, it's free.

If you live in sunny Florida, like I do, then you can feel that spring is in the air. Hi 60's at night and low 80's during the day will give you a bad case of spring fever.

It stays green down here year round so you don't notice the seasonal changes as much. I like to sit on my porch and drink coffee in the morning and here lately it has become noisy.

Not a bad kind of noise, just lots of birds chirping their celebration of the arrival of spring. But that's not what I wanted to talk about. I want to talk about "tweeting", as in the kind of bird noise you here on Twitter.

I joined Twitter back in it's infancy, mainly to secure my username "jtmartin". I didn't really participate much until recently. I have seen the awesome potential and as such, have started to do some research and look at the multitude of software and applications that are available to increase your followers and automate your Twitter account.

I ran accross one the other day and gave it a try. I was really surprised by the results so I thought I would pass it along to you. All you have to do is follow the link and enter your Twitter info.

Then promote the link they give you, but remember to put your Twitter ID in the last part of the URL. You will still see results even if you don't promote, but like all things, the more you put into it, the better results you will see.

http://www.twitteringfortraffic.com/jtmartin

Did I mention that you also get 3 free Twitter ebooks for trying the viral software? It's a no brainer.

Check back regularly because I am going to be posting some other cool stuff about Twitter as I uncover it. I am probably going to put together a report that will list all the cool resources I have found.

Twitter has absolutely taken the internet by storm. The other night during module 4 of Alex Jeffreys coaching program, Alex recommended that all of us get on Twitter and start tweeting away. I have been on Twitter for better than 6 months now but probalbly have not been using it as much as I should.

I would like to give some tips to my fellow students,  and any one else that might be interested, on how to use Twitter. Before I give you the tips, you need to go do this right now. There is a plugin for WordPress called Twitter Tools. This plugin totally integrates Twitter.com with your blog. Set this up right now and start using it.

If you don't know how to set up a plugin or this gives you trouble, I will be posting a "How To" video later today.

Now for the tips:

1. Do Not Use bots, auto posters, and other black hat methods with Twitter. They have become very wise to this and will ban your account. About 20% of the people that were following me have been "suspended for strange activities".
2. Tweet on a regular basis. I recommend at least once a day. Here is where Twitter Tools comes in handy.
3. Interact with the other members. If all you do is pimp your blog posts or products, every one will soon dismiss you. Make tweets about your personal life. The question is "What are you doing" Answer it!
4. Make sure you upload a photo.
5. Make sure you set up your profile.
6. Look for other people that have like interests and follow them.
7. When some one follows you, follow them back.
8. If some one is following you, you can send them a direct message by putting the @ sign at the very begininng of your tweet.

Follow these tips and you should do well with Twitter.

Watch for a video later today.

I added Twitter Tools to my viral traffic blog last week and liked it so I have added it here as well. I highly recommend it to all you Twitter users. You can access your Twitter account directly from your blog. The thing I like the most is that whenever I make a blog post, it automatically makes a tweet about the post. Cool Huh?

I am looking at some of the other plug ins and gadgets mentioned in the post below and will keep you updated on ones I think are worth looking at. Hope fully you all have started using Twitter, set up your blog, and picked out your 3 keyword phrases. We are getting ready to get done and dirty with what I like to call my Web 2.0 Whammy.

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I hope you signed up for your Twitter account. Make sure you have set up your profile and put the website you want to drive traffic to in the "More info URL" box. Once you have completed your profile, you want to start folowing people.

There are 2 ways to do this. You can click on the "public timeline" link at the top of the page but I recommend using the search box where it says "People" in the right hand column. Type in a keyword to find people with similar interests. Once the results come up click on the "follow" button to start getting notices on your home page when ever that person makes a "tweet".

By the way, a "tweet" is what you do when you post a statement. We are going to be discussing a lot of different Web 2.0 sites and most of them have there own termanology that you will need to familiarize yourself with. I would make it a practice to make at least one tweet a day if not more. Don't be spammy about it. If you post a link every time you make a tweet, then you won't get as many followers.

You have to use the service in the spirit that was intended and slip in the occassional plug for your website. Make tweets like "Taking the family to the beach this afternoon" or "Watching the football game and having a few cold ones." Then later that day, "I'm just made a new post to my blog at http://yourdomain.com". Just don't over do it.

That is going to be the case with most of these social websites. You want your backlinks to look as natural as possible. I will discuss each one as we go because some sites are much more tolerant than others.

When you signed up for Twitter, you probably noticed that you can use Twiiter with IM and SMS. You can also go to http://m.twitter.com with your smart mobile phone. There are a couple of Word Press plugins that I know of. One lists your tweets in the side bar and the other one gives you full functional acces to your Twitter account from your blog and will automatically create a tweet whenever you make a blog post. If you post on a regular basis, you can accumulate quite a few PR 8 backlinks . Just don't forget to mix it up by making daily tweets without links. You can also use the @ symbol in a tweet to target a specific Twitter user. This will also give you "social" credibility and help you be one of the crowd.

There are other ways to monetize Twitter, aside from building backlinks and creating traffic to your websites. Websites like Twitter love it when people create applications that are designed to specifically work with their websites. Use your imagination along with a programmer and come up with something that ties Twitter into another Web 2.0 site like MySpace, YouTube,  or maybe Ebay and you can see the potential.

There are already a bunch of widgets and what not that have been created. I also discovered more plug ins. The list is too extensive to put here so here are the links. Click here for the Top 10 Plugins and click her for the Twitter Wiki.

You will see that there are tons of different applications and more are being created all the time as Twitter becomes more popular. I recently read that so many people are joining , the technical team can't upgrade the servers fast enough to handle the load.