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Tweeting and texting and emailing all day leads to information overload. InnerTwitter sends alerts to you at pre-selected intervals throughout the day. When you receive said alert, you are to stop, breathe deeply and reconnect with the real world. :)

If you are covering an industry conference, for example, you need to tweet in a professional manner. LiveTwitting enables you spell check and edit your posts before they go out. It also helps you organize and consolidate your posts during live sessions.

After the event, you can gather all your tweets together into one coherent message and republish for others to read in their entirety.

Repurpose your tweets by feeding them directly to your blog.

If you are new to Twitter, here's a quick and easy PDF guide to getting started. It covers everything from soup to nuts -- how to set up your account and customize your profile page, how to position yourself as a leader and find followers, how to find others of interest to follow and how to use Twitter's basic commands to send your posts.

Search Twitter by keyword to find out who's tweeting on any topic and what they are saying. For example, at the time of writing we searched for "SEO" and found pages of posts ranging from announcements of new SEO tools to Top 10 lists of SEO tips and more.

Advanced search options include the ability to limit your search to tweets from or to a particular person or within a certain geographic area.

The company also has a tool called Realtime Twitter Sentiment. Enter a keyword and it delivers a chart that summarizes the "sentiment" around that keyword based upon the good words, bad words and emoticons used in the tweets.

You only have 140 characters to work with for your tweet. A cumbersome URL could take up way too much space. Cut and paste that URL into the TinyURL tool, and out will pop out an abbreviated URL like http://tinyurl/5k85ly. When clicked, it resolves to your URL and never expires.

The disadvantage is that your branded URL does not appear in your tweet. But do be aware that the TinyURL service (or many others like it ) are what's used in most tweets.

TweetBeep alerts you whenever any keyword you've registered with the service is being tweeted about. You can register your name, your product names, your URL, your brand name and so on. You can do the same using your competitors' keywords. You can zip right to any tweet to read it for yourself.

This tool lets you track the links that you tweet on Twitter. To do so, you register with the site and input the URL(s) you want tracked. It shortens them into what are called twurls (smaller URLs). A pop up appears into which you type your tweet using the URL provided and send. You then access this site for analytics information.

You can schedule your tweets in advance. You may want to announce a press release, for example, but would prefer to write the content ahead of time and have it go out tomorrow morning without needing to get up and put your finger on the send button.

This nifty little tool also enables you to send automated thank you notes to new followers.

Twellow is the Yellow Pages of Twitter land. It analyzes Twitter messages and puts Twitterers in categories ranging from Accounting to Web Developers. Under the Advertising heading, we drilled down into the Marketing category. There were 175 Internet marketers listed, ranked by the number of twitterers who follow their tweets.

At the time of writing, top tweeters included Richard Sayer (5,480), Wayne Sutton (4,449), The New Media Expo (3,450) and Stephanie Agresta (2,767).

PS: The twitterer's user name is also listed, so you can use this search engine (or one of the many other Twitter search tools) to find all the tweets by that particular person.

PPS: Pardon the length of this review.