By Jason Buss – a.k.a. @jjbuss

Social Media and Social Networking are phrases that have monopolized online communities worldwide the past couple of years. New sites, communities, and tools are being created just as quickly in response to the growing demand and use of many popular sites.

Twitter, which has been praised and beaten over the past 12 months, is one example for the growing demand for tools. Some new, some old, here are 10 twitter tools you can use:

Matt (Multiple Account Twitter Tweeting) makes it easy to post to multiple twitter accounts without having to log into each one every time.

TweetDeck, a personal favorite, is an Adobe Air desktop application that is currently in public beta. It aims to evolve the existing functionality of Twitter by taking an abundance of information i.e twitter feeds, and breaking it down into more manageable bite sized pieces.

TweetDeck enables users to split their main feed (All Tweets) into topic or group specific columns allowing a broader overview of tweets. Once created these additional columns will automatically update allowing the user to keep track of a twitter threads far easier.

Summize indexes Twitter’s public timeline in real-time, threads together associated tweets, and gives you the search tools to dig in.

Other twitter search tools include:

• TwetDir: Search for users by name, location, or username
• Twitterverse: Allows you to search through archived timelines and tweets
• Twittersearch: Search twitter and tweets by word

Other helpful tools to get the most out of twitter:

• RetweetMe: Set reminders or to do items in twitter
• Twitty Tunes: Post what your currently listening to in twitter
• Jargong: Bring the web with you all the time
• jTwitter: The ultimate phone application for twittering