I’m diving in to my usage of twitter much more than of recent.

Part of this stems from a conversation I had with my best mate about Facebook the other day – his innocent comment was “you probably saw my FB update” and I had to confess that I hadn’t due to my twitter usage.

It gave me an opportunity to share about twitter and to be honest my usage of FB and Twitter are generally to two completely different crowds. I see FB as the ‘keep in contact with family‘ and thus my updates are much more mundane with pictures of the family, etc whereas my Twitter approach is very much a place to learn from and find out information.

I personally don’t hold with the everything on FB goes to Twitter and vice-versa approach but equally have no problems with those that do.

However, two tools have come to light that will make usage of twitter easier and more enhanced – certainly one of them will for those whom have a large active following and a blog. Anyway, the two tools are:

Tweetboard – which you can see in action to the left and, so they promise, will allow for “reformatting tweets into threaded conversations with unlimited nesting.” In short it will take my tweets and any follow ups they receive, including folks that I don’t follow of follow me back and create a threaded micro forum.

The other thing it gives me more specifically is a direct correlation between my blog and my tweets – I don’t see the two as separate but until now hadn’t found a way to integrate my tweets to Wordpress that I liked. Now it’s unobtrusive and the reader gets to pick whether they view them or not.

Hootsuite – whilst this is yet another twitter client (YATC ?) it is only the second I will continue to use. My current favourite is TweetDeck but I can see the benefit of hootsuite should I not be on a computer that has Adobe Air on it. Equally, I don’t have to continually set it up for each computer I use. Set it once and log in from wherever there is web access.

I can only recommend both of them to you.