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Managing a Twitter account for a business can be a daunting task. Let these 5 time-saving Twitter tools help you organize and better manage your account and show you the results of your efforts.

CoTweet

CoTweet is a great time-saving tool to organize Twitter accounts. It offers a built-in workflow system, allowing the user to assign specific tweets to specific employees, and attach notes. For example, a tweet from someone asking a question could be assigned to someone saying, “This is a key client, please respond quickly and respectfully!” Users set their statuses to available or out of office, allowing others to see whether or not they are available to do work. With a tagline of “how business does Twitter,” it is hard to ignore this Twitter tool.

TweetStats

TweetStats is a lot like TwitterGrader, but goes into slightly more detail. TweetStats graphs your Twitter Stats. Some of the stats include when you are tweeting (by month, day of week, and even hour), a tweet timeline, reply statistics, and a tweet cloud with the words that you use frequently. TweetStats is a  great tool for finding out specifics about your account and deciding when you should be tweeting more.

Oneforty

Oneforty is “Twitter’s App Store,” tracking and helping you sift through the nearly 2,000 Twitter apps out there. The site is set up like Yelp, providing user-generated ratings of apps on a five-star scale and reviews of them. You can also search the best, top-rated and most useful apps based on the ratings. For your convenience, there is a button under each app, allowing you to add or remove it directly, without leaving the site. Apps are easy to search as they are categorized by what they are used for and where they can be used: desktop, mobile, business, monitoring/search, networking, analytics, and media sharing, to name a few. If you’re having trouble deciding between TweetDeck or Tweetie as your primary Twitter client, oneforty is the ultimate tool for you.

TweetLater

TweetLater is created with businesses in mind. It allows you to schedule your tweets to be published at a later time, which is great if you can’t access a computer or have international followers that are online while you are asleep. It’s easy to track keywords, view @mentions, and link your bit.ly account to auto-shorten and track links. TweetLater includes many automated features such as sending DMs to new followers and following people who follow you. Can’t find time to tweet? TweetLater can help.

EasyTweets

EasyTweets has 4.5 stars on oneforty, but isn’t the best option for small businesses on a budget because it isn’t free.  For those with the money, Mashable called the app “almost perfect.” It allows you to track basically anything you’d like, schedule messages to post in the future, monitor trends in Twitter conversations, automatically follow users that match your interests, and manage multiple Twitter accounts under one log-in. If you have the budget, EasyTweets is for you!

Do you use other useful tools for Twitter? Share them in the comments section below!