Five Great Twitter Tools for Business Users

It's one thing to get your company on Twitter and start pushing out the tweets, but quite another to manage, monitor, and fully leverage your account(s).

Fortunately, there's a growing number of Web-based tools that help you do exactly that. PC World just rounded up the five top Twitter apps for business users, all of them free, all of them accessible right in your browser. Here's a sampling:

The concept behind CoTweet is simple: multiple people might want to update just one Twitter account. A permissions console allows you to set up accounts for the team members you want updating the Twitter feed. You can integrate it with your account on bit.ly, the URL shortener that allows you to track your tweets. You can also schedule a tweet to go off at a certain time or assign them to a specific user.

Of course, there's plenty of useful stuff here as well, such as:

• LocalBunny Helps Businesses Manage Twitter Relations with Customers
• Manage Your Twitter Account in Outlook with TwInbox
• Remotely Shut Down Your PC with TweetMyPC
• Find a Job Fast at TweetMyJobs