Move aside iPhone apps. Hello Twitter tools!

You've probably all heard about the iPhone app gold-rush, but what about the Twitter tool windfall?

You may be asking yourself, what's a Twitter tool? Simply put, it's an added on service to the social micro-blogging site Twitter that's recently taken off.

Companies are flooding the Web with thousands of tools—many of them free of charge—that simplify a number of common tasks on Twitter. For instance, some services let you automatically search for Twitter posts (tweets) that mention a company or person. Other programs let you easily organize the tweets that you follow, or manage how multiple employees use a single Twitter account. But forget outside sites, Twitter is also trying to cash in with these tools and says by year’s end, it will launch several new features of its own for commercial use, such as a directory of business users. The Wall Street Journal Journal has a good rundown of some of these Twitter Tools.

No word yet on how companies plan on making money on these tools if they're free of charge, but profit and Twitter (and most social media sites for that matter) has always been a touchy subject.

So my Twitter friends, keep toolin' along and come tweet us @voxuspr!



-posted by Andrew