Statistics on 250 twitter tools

Do you know which are the most popular twitter tools ?

Curious as I was, how could you know such a thing ? Organize a poll ? I fear I do not have enough readers or followers on twitter to end up with sufficient data.

But I had two options left :

1. count the number of times a twitter tool appears in lists of twitter tools. You know, there are lots and lots of lists of twitter tools on the internet. A tool that appears in every list must be very popular, at least for twitter tools listers.
2. get the number of hits google returns you when you search for the twitter tool

I decided to use the second method.

But first I needed the names of “all” the twitter tools. So I started to get them from the various twitter tools lists. Soon I saw that this could be an exercise that goes on forever !
Neither my patience nor my time are endless, so I decided to stop after 15 lists and 250 twitter tools. Feel free to continue the exercise !

First of all here are the 15 lists :

Mashable
BashBosh
techcruising
Rssapplied
dailyseoblog
Brian Solis
techcrunch
The twitter toolbox
online marketeer
99 Essential Twitter Tools And Applications
Top twitter tools
Top twitter tools for business
My Top 10 Free Twitter Tools (and 3 Honorable Mentions)
47 Awesome Twitter Tools You Should be Using
Twittermania: 140+ More Twitter Tools!

( At the end of this post, I give the remaining url’s of the twitter tools lists that I did not use. )

And now the results.
But first there are two remarks to make.

1. Most searches were straightforward because the tool has some typical “twitter-like” name so you – and google – cannot get confused to mix them up with some other already existing concept. Example : splitweet.
   But there were a lot of more ambiguous names, like “hellotxt” or “glue”. In those cases I used either the website name of the tool (getglue.com) or added “twitter” to the searchterm.
2. I know the numbers that google returns are mere … “google numbers”. This means we do not exactly know what’s behind, unless we browse for example all 126.000.000 hits for bit.ly which is a bit too much for me. Also I noted that google never uses more than 3 meaningful digits, the rest are zeros. So these numbers are not very precise. But at least they give some overall picture, which is interesting to see, but, I am aware of, has not very much real meaning or values. Say it is just for fun and curiosity.

And here is the list of 250 twitter tools and their number of google search results : enjoy !
Sorry that I did not hyperlinked them all, just too much work !

1	twittersearch	402000000
2	friendorfollow	208000000
3	bit.ly	126000000
4	seesmic	15900000
5	twitter karma	15000000
6	twittangle	13070000
7	ping.fm	11900000
8	cotweet	9520000
9	twittercounter	8080000
10	tinyurl	7760000
11	brightkite	7470000
12	timer	6780000
13	hootsuite	6050000
14	wefollow	5330000
15	twitthis	4800000
16	headup	4230000
17	tweetmix	4200000
18	toro for twitter	4050000
19	twitterfeed	4030000
20	diigo	3730000
21	loopt	3550000
22	twitter grader	2800000
23	twitpic	2680000
24	tweetdeck	2170000
25	tweetmeme	1800000
25	twitterrific	1750000
27	splitweet	1040000
28	quitter	1020000
29	cheaptweet	841000
30	strawpoil	767000
31	hellotxt	765000
32	twitalyzer	669000
33	snipurl	654000
34	twitterfriends	650000
35	magpie	588000
36	twiggit	581000
37	hashtags	539000
38	twitwall	539000
39	tweepsearch	537000
40	emailtwitter	522000
41	Doesfollow	517000
42	twhirl	490000
43	twitgraph	476000
44	rememberthemilk	461000
45	twitxr	457000
46	hoopla	451000
47	tweetcloud	436000
48	retweetist	425000
49	destroytwitter	404000
50	twibs	397000
51	glue	393000
52	tweetree	375000
53	twellow	353000
54	twitt twoo	349000
55	spaz	326000
56	tweet2tweet	320000
57	twitterberry	291000
58	tinytwitter	290000
59	summize	284000
60	snitter	278000
61	twitterfon	271000
62	twitscoop	267000
63	retweetrank	261000
64	twitterfall	259000
65	favrd	256000
66	microplaza	253000
67	outwit	250000
68	digsby	247000
69	twitterreply	244000
70	twist	236000
71	flaptor twitter search	227000
72	twitter search firefox	222000
73	jott	219000
74	twitbin	218000
75	twittelator	211000
76	twitterkeys	189000
77	twitterlocal	188000
78	twitterbadge	179000
79	twitterholic	178000
80	powertwitter	176000
81	twibble	174000
82	twinbox	166000
83	tweetvisor	163000
84	easytweets	159000
85	tweetrank	157000
86	bubbletweet	154000
87	backtweets	150000
88	huitter	148000
89	tweetstats	145000
90	Itweet	142000
91	tweetbeep	142000
92	twitterfox	142000
93	tweetlinks	135000
94	slandr	131000
95	twitterless	126000
96	vakow	124000
97	twittervision	122000
98	twitdir	118000
99	twitzer	116000
100	twtpoll	114000
101	twitterfone	113000
102	twitter2go	111000
103	twittermail	110000
104	tweetvolume	108000
105	twitdom	103000
106	mrtweet	96300
107	twittytunes	93200
108	tweetlater	92900
109	peoplebrowsr	90100
110	twinfluence	88100
111	twitternotes	87500
112	twideoo	87000
113	mr milestone	86100
114	cursebird	86000
115	WP twitter tools	85700
116	tweetgrid	82600
117	tweetr	82000
118	twoogle	81000
119	twitterbar	80700
120	snaptweet	72700
121	tweetscan	71300
122	twitteroo	68700
123	hahlo	68500
124	tweetburner	68200
125	twuffer	66800
126	twittercal	65100
127	twittonary	65100
128	twitter updater	63400
129	tweetchat	62900
130	twitter100	62800
131	tweetake	60800
132	socialtoo	60600
133	nearbytweets	56900
134	monitter	56600
135	tweepler	55900
136	twtvite	55200
137	twilert	55100
138	tapulous	52300
139	tweetwire	50900
140	feedalizr	50700
141	secrettweet	49800
142	twitterhawk	48400
143	twitturly	48400
144	Xpenser	48400
145	grouptweet	48300
146	tweetcube	48000
147	tweet this	47900
148	tweetwheel	46700
149	linkbunch	46400
150	twiddict	46200
151	twittertise	44900
152	tweetsum	43500
153	twitstat	43200
154	followcost	43100
155	twitter sharts	41900
156	tweetrush	40300
157	untweeps	38700
158	twtqpon	37900
159	tweetsuite	35600
160	citytweets	35500
161	twistori	35100
162	twitpay	34800
163	twitterpatterns	33200
164	tweepular	32300
165	gps twit	31800
166	twonvert	30900
167	Matt	30500
168	livetwitting	30400
169	twitseeker	30000
170	twittergallery	30000
171	twitoria	29100
172	quotably	28400
173	mymilemarker	28100
174	tweetchannel	27800
175	twistory	27800
176	tweet pro	27400
177	twitzu	27000
178	justtweetit	26500
179	twitterIM	26100
180	gridjit	25700
181	twittercamp	25100
182	twubble	24800
183	socialwhois	24700
184	twittereyes	23500
185	twtrfrnd	23400
186	twittad	23200
187	twittersnooze	21900
188	brabblr	21400
189	twalala	20800
190	whostalkin	19700
191	twitsay	19500
192	twittearth	19400
193	istwitterdown	19300
194	twtcard	19200
195	pockettweets	19000
196	toptweet	18900
197	twerpscan	18600
198	nozbe	17500
199	twemes	17000
200	autopostr	16300
201	twixxer	16200
202	twitterdigest	16100
203	whoshouldifollow	15900
204	twithire	15800
205	madtwitter	15300
206	tweetwhatyouspend	15000
207	xefer	14500
208	twittertroll	13800
209	twitterlights	13000
210	twitority	12200
211	twitterfriends network browser	12100
212	feedtweeter	10100
213	tweetwasters	9870
214	tweetie for iphone	9680
215	twitrans	9520
216	twiffid	9200
217	mytweeple	9130
218	twitresponse	9110
219	itweet2	9020
220	microrevie	8970
221	twitterratio	8960
222	Nest.Unclutterer	8730
223	twply	7730
224	itwtr	6730
225	twitspy	6320
226	postica	6260
227	twitrand	5660
228	twinkle	5520
229	dreamtweet	4870
230	whatsyourtweetworth	4190
231	mycleenr	4090
232	WP twitip Id	3780
233	twitslikeme	3760
234	alphatwitter	3510
235	plodt	3180
236	readmytweets	3150
237	twittords	3020
238	vacatweet	3010
239	twenglish	2850
240	acamin	2420
241	tweetpad	2330
242	twitexplorer	2120
243	twi8r	1880
244	twitgeistr	1880
245	whofollowswhom	1660
246	tweeterology	1410
247	twitblocker	1150
248	twitalks	1040
249	twitterscan	39

 
Oops ! either I come one too short, or I made some mistake in my numbering …

And here are the url’s of the other twitter tools lists I did not use :

http://www.sociableblog.com/2009/03/18/100-twitter-tools-to-help-you-achieve-all-your-goals/
http://net.tutsplus.com/articles/10-awesome-ways-to-integrate-twitter-with-your-website/
http://www.folkd.com/go/top+10+twitter+tools

Top 10 Most Useful Practical Twitter Tools for The Twitter Professionals

http://www.1stwebdesigner.com/development/27-twitter-tools-to-help-you-find-and-manage-followers/
http://www.quickonlinetips.com/archives/2007/04/10-best-twitter-tools-for-wordpress-blogs/
http://www.seoptimise.com/blog/2009/10/30-twitter-tools-for-business.html
http://tendou86.blogspot.com/2009/01/top-10-twitter-tools.html
http://www.hellogiri.com/top-10-most-useful-twitter-tools-list-for-pc-mobiles-and-blogs/

Top 25 twitter tools for WordPress

http://www.newmediabytes.com/2008/01/18/best-twitter-tools-resources-and-clients-guide/
http://savethemedia.com/2009/02/17/top-twitter-tools-for-journalists/

Top 100 Most Influential Twitter Tools

http://www.google.be/search?hl=nl&client=firefox-a&rls=com.ubuntu:nl:official&q=TOP+10+LIST+OF+twitter+tools&start=30&sa=N
http://www.c4lpt.co.uk/recommended/
http://www.squidoo.com/twitterapps?utm_campaign=direct-discovery&utm_medium=sidebar&utm_source=pkmcr
http://pelfusion.com/tools/30-twitter-tools-for-managing-followers/

Tweets by Top10TwitTools

http://www.seodubai.org/2009/01/16/list-of-twitter-tools-that-you-must-have/
http://brendanhughes.ie/2009/06/21/top-10-twitter-tools-for-business/
http://www.smbceo.com/2009/03/25/top-27-twitter-applications/
http://www.smmguru.com/2008/10/22/the-master-list-of-twitter-tools-and-apps

Top 10 Twitter Tools For Musicians

http://www.socialmediatoday.com/SMC/80437
http://www.blogcatalog.com/topic/list+of+twitter+tools/
http://www.scgpr.com/wordpress/?p=492
http://www.socialmedialists.com/wiki/index.php?title=Twitter_Tools
http://www.twitadder.info/
http://www.thedailyanchor.com/2009/02/17/85-twitter-tools/
http://www.techtreak.com/downloads/10-awesome-twitter-tools-as-wordpress-plugins/
http://steve-wakefield.com/2009/10/my-top-10-twitter-tools-and-then-some/
http://www.thinktechno.com/2009/05/31/top-10-twitter-tools/
http://www.brandsamongmany.com/2009/03/09/the-ultimate-list-of-twitter-tools/
http://www.webuildyourblog.com/1289/increase-twitter-top-10-twitter-tools/
http://www.networkworld.com/slideshows/2008/060208-top-twitter-tools.html
http://www.warriorforum.com/blogs/dsmpublishing/8167-top-10-twitter-tools-everyone-should-own-their-online-business.html
http://www.girlopinion.com/2009/06/07/top-10-twitter-tools/
http://www.twitip.com/10-more-must-have-twitter-tools/
http://gnoted.com/100-twitter-tools-ultimate-power-collection/
http://freelancefolder.com/15-useful-twitter-tools-for-web-workers/

Twitter Tools & Resources For Jumpstarting Your Twitter Experience

http://www.placona.co.uk/blog/post.cfm/my-top-favourite-twitter-tools

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