Top Free Twitter Tools

. RiteTag provides you a set of tools to maximize your return on hashtags. Learn which hashtags are good for your tweets while composing the tweet. Get information about the top performing hashtags from your tweets and optimize future tweets with them.

TweetDeck is your personal browser for staying in touch with what's happening now.

Tweetdeck is similar to Hootsuite. You can view columned Twitter-interaction categories apart from the default – Home, Notifications, Messages, Activity. You can also schedule your tweets and add multiple Twitter accounts. You can manage multiple social networks such as Twitter, Facebook and Linkedin.

Hootsuite is the world's most widely used social media management platform. It works great for content marketers, businesses that don't have dedicated social media managers and you can easily spy on your competition. You can track what your niche customers are saying about your competitor brands, using the custom streams and tracking search queries.

Twilert tells you when someone is talking about your brand on Twitter. Use Twilert to effectively monitor your Twitter reputation.

Twitter reach metrics, statistics and analysis for marketing and PR professionals.You may have used a unique hashtag for your event or a marketing campaign. You can track its reach using TweetReach reports that give you the number of accounts reached, number of impressions, top contributors, most retweeted tweets, list of contributors and a tweets timeline.

Followerwonk helps you explore and grow your social graph. Dig deeper into Twitter analytics: Who are your followers? Where are they located? When do they tweet? Find and connect with new influencers in your niche. Use super-actionable visualizations to compare your social graph to others. Easily share your reports with the world.

Simply Measured gives you a free analytic report of your followers so that you know them more, understand the topics they like and create a Twitter marketing strategy accordingly. Similar to Twitter Analytics

Twtrland is a social intelligence platform that helps you build your online identity and become an influencer in fields you care about. Whether you want to research top influencers in your locality or your just your audience demographics, this tool gives you a neat compilation of information about those who are connected to your Twitter profile and those who are potential brand advocates or influencers.

Topsy Social Media Analytics allow you to search by time and place, set alerts, and analyze sentiment for every tweet ever made. Search our entire database free.

Tweepi Twitter Follow Management Utility is a set of Twitter tools to add, follow and unfollow tweeps in bulk