Tweet or Not !

Twitter garners massive power all on its own. The people who use it make quirky and short posts, or rather tweets as the people in the Twitter universe like to call it, every few hours or so or as frequently as they deem appropriate and they are more or less all set.

Since most of the Twitter users are celebrities and people of power, Twitter acts as

more of a connecting ground between the rich and famous and the ones that unfortunately aren’t so. Thus, instead of a social media platform, Twitter has turned into a more of a tabloid that people use to talk to and talk about celebrities and the famous all day long.

Even though Twitter was created and launched in 2006, it wasn’t until 2010 that it gained popularity and became the most used social media account, superseding Facebook in its rise to the top. In 2012, the use was Twitter was at its all time high with its users posting a grand total of 360 million tweets a day. With such a humongous success, after the invention of Facebook, it was Twitter that paved the way for the creation of more social media platforms like Instagram and Tumblr, even though they followed a completely different format compared to Twitter.

While Twitter may be great and all, nobody can completely deny that strangers of all sorts with ill thoughts and even more nefarious intentions on their minds lurk the corners of Twitter as well, leaving everybody using Twitter somewhat vulnerable in the worst ways. Every other day we hear the rich and famous’ Twitter account being hacked for obscure reason and their private information being released in the worse of ways.

If those people are not safe from the fiery trenches of hackers and nefarious people, what hope do we, the common people, have of escaping them? In times like these, parents need to be on constant look out for their teens and tweets if they use Twitter on a daily basis. To ensure this, parents can either physically monitor their children around the clock or either invest in monitoring applications.

While using monitoring applications to monitor their own children might seem like a tad bit intrusive and immoral to most parents, it is the best way there is compared to physical monitoring where the child may be conscious of the surveillance and may be tempted to hide the data that might prove to be dangerous to them eventually. Therefore, the only option they have left is spy applications that can help them out with:

SOCIAL MEDIA MONITORING 

An essential tool that most spy apps come equipped with is the ability to look through the various social media profiles in order to provide you with the information needed to keep your child safe from the people they interact with online. Not only can you see what your child has been doing online but you can also control this free access to some extent.

1) Hootsuite

Hootsuite is one of the best free social media listening tools available and covers multiple social networks, including Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, WordPress, Foursquare and Google+. It is well known for its social media management functions.

The weekly reports and the excellent team management facility (delegating tasks, sending private messages) can be very useful when there’s more than one person handling the social media accounts.

2) TweetReach

TweetReach is a great monitoring tool for your business if you’re interested in checking how far your Tweets travel. TweetReach measures the actual impact and implications of social media discussions.

It is a good way of finding out who are your most influential followers, implicitly guiding you towards the right people you should be targeting when aiming to share and promote online content.

3) Twazzup

Twazzup is great for social media beginners looking for a Twitter monitoring tool. You just enter the name you want to track and you instantly get real-time updates, meaning the most active top influencers, most retweeted photos and links, and most importantly, the top 10 keywords related to your search.

4) TweetDeck

TweetDeck covers the basic needs of any Twitter user, so is a good option for beginners. It’s a great tool for scheduling tweets and monitoring your interactions and messages, as well as tracking hashtags and managing multiple accounts. There is a web app, chrome ap, or mac app. The Windows app ceased functioning in April 2016.

5) SumAll

Targeted at small-medium businesses, SumAll is a cross-platform social media monitoring tool that will help you understand the correlation between your social channels. The user interface does take a bit of time to get familiar with, but there are an extensive amount of metrics you can analyze.

The daily email updates can give you a quick overview of top-level stats for your account compared to the previous week, allowing you to quickly react and respond to urgent issues.