Well looks like Twitter is here to stay and continues to grow albeit a little slower now than shooting straight to the moon. One of my biggest grips with the whole Twitter community is trying to find people you actually want to follow. If I were a hotel I’d want to follow travelers and other hoteliers before I follow news accounts, ya know what I mean? You can do all of the searching you want and really all you find is a bunch of user generated lists on blogs that have links to perhaps 50 of the top whatever according to them.

Because of this hodgepodge of random lists by random people @Zedomax and I set out to bring everyone’s list into one place and created Twitli.st.

Before you start mailing me flowers and $100 bills I want you to check out the site, especially all of you Twitter users and shoot us back some feedback so we can further improve the idea.

Now onto the goodies…

If you are anyone looking for any type of Twitter list we’ll have you covered in no time.

Hotel and Travel Peeps can jump right here to our Travel Twitter List and Hotel Twitter List follow over 1100 people as quick as you can click the follow button. The more times people are listed and recommended by others the higher they’ll show on these lists. Or as the saying goes… the cream rises to the top!

Since you cant recommend individual people and only lists we have eliminated a huge spam problem and made the Twitter Lists experience more pleasant. Now people can visit for the sake of sharing other cool Twitter lists with the world or drill down in the categories to find lots of relevant Twitter users.

Starting to see the potential here…?

The more lists people recommend the bigger the categories grow and the more relevancy is added to those using. I would again encourage you to try it out and recommend the best Twitter list you know of.

Looking for target Twitter lists, look no further…

Drop your thoughts and comments below, we’d love to hear them!

Be sure to follow me on Twitter @therealjosh or visit my Twitter page to find out more about how I use Twitter.

The other day I wrote a post about a different Twitter marketing idea where you can help automate your Twitter process via the Twitter Hummingbird Review. Here is another cool and interesting way to leverage Twitter and help automate the sharing of cool and relevant information. StumbleTweets.com is the StumbleUpon for Twitter, tapping the Twitter API information to find tweets with links in whatever category you so desire.

Back in the day I used to love using the StumbleUpon toolbar to kill time at work and bounce around the web. With StumbleUpon, people submit articles for others to vote on whether or not they like what they see. Voting on StumbleUpon is done by giving a thumbs up or a thumbs down. The articles with the most thumbs-up votes will get more traffic from StumbleUpon.

As for StumbleTweets.com, you can use it to find tweets that apply to you and not just some random web pages. If you are into marketing like myself and you search marketing on StumbleTweets you will be shown tweets with links that have marketing in them. Then you are finding and re-tweeting (RT) tweets related to your niche or likes and are able to one-click and share those with your followers.

You can save a ton of time by using StumbleTweets’ one-click Follow and one-click RT features. Chances are if someone tweeted about a marketing topic or post he or she might be interested in the same thing as you. With one click you can follow the person who tweeted the post to begin with along with RTing the post again to your own followers. Again, you are saving time and managing all of these actions from the same spot.

Search really specific things to RT to others. Want to just find some twitpics related to marketing? Or funny Craigslist ads? You name it, if it has a link the chances are great you can find it and RT it.

If you are into saving time and RTing cool and interesting things to your followers, StumbleTweets is here for you. Try it out and if you don’t love it in a matter of minutes you get a full refund

Since humans picked up the very first stick and rock to help make their lives easier, we haven’t stopped. The same goes for tools online. Learning how and where to find those tools along with using them help make our lives much easier is vital for productivity. Here are my Top 10 Web Marketer Tools (in no particular order):

1. SEO Quake Toolbar

The SEO Quake toolbar is a FireFox extension that allows you to quickly and easily see quick stats about every web page you visit. As I am browsing from site to site I can simply look at my toolbar and know roughly how much traffic, authority, backlinks, age, keywords and indexed pages a site has. This is invaluable information when you are doing research on clients or competition. With a few clicks you can see much more detailed information until you are blue in the face. Here is where you can get the SEO Quake Toolbar.

2. COcomment

COcomment is another great tool to allow you to track the online conversations you have had. Every time you leave a comment on a fellow website or blog it records that and feeds it into your COcomment inbox. If anyone replies to that comment in the future you can see that to continue your conversation. I use this every day, and it helps to build your trust on other websites as a member and participator, even if you only visit to update your conversation. This is a big for time management not to mention a big time saver, an absolute must for maintaining an online presence in all different communities.

3. Google Alerts

I have touched on this before and won’t exhaust the topic, but if you are trying to become an authority on a subject there is no better way to stay up to date than with Google Alerts. You can play with the settings to receive alerts by email one a day, hour, as they happen and so on. This is a great tool for brand management and to see what others are saying about your subject, company or yourself.

4. Ping.fm

Ping.fm allows you to send messages to all of your various Twitters, Facebook, Myspace and just about every other major social networking site. I have it set up through my Gmail that allows me to send a message automatically to my Ping.fm dashboard and it simultaneously updates all of my social networking platforms. Huge, HUGE, time saver. Never again do you have to log in and out of 20 different sites to update all your friends and followers. It’s great.

5. All in One SEO Plugin

All in One SEO Plugin is for self-hosted WordPress sites. So, if you have a blog and use WordPress, you need this plugin. This plugin allows you to quickly optimize your post title, description and keywords. When you do this on a subject like Halloween Marketing Ideas, when someone searches for that keyword term it shows up in the search engine instead of your normal blog title. It looks better to the eye, meets the searcher criteria, allows search engines to categorize better and helps overall in SEO.

6. Auto Social Poster (ASP)

ASP is really a neat tool to automate the initial boost of your post in the search engines in a given term. What ASP does is allows you to automatically bookmark your newest posts to sites like Delicious, Scuttle sites, Flurl, and many, many more. You can create as many different accounts to all the sites you would like, and it will randomly select as many or few sites to post to. This gives each of your newest posts an automatic backlinks from dozens of social bookmarking sites. If you are writing on a trend type subject, this one plugin alone can help to drive hundreds of visitors.

7. G-Lock Blog Finder

G-Lock Blog Finder program allows you to search for keyword terms similar to yours in order to build good backlinks. If you have a blog about apartments and want to build that blog as an authority on apartments you can use this program to help find those apartment blogs. If you are leaving and participating on their site in a useful manner and have similar content, it should be easy to attract like audience to your own blog. This not only builds your reputation but helps to create more trickle traffic from similar sites.

8. FoxyProxy

The FoxyProxy plugin for FireFox allows you to view the web semi-anonymously by routing your web viewing through a proxy. This helps to reduce your footprint on the web and lets you stay one up on the competition. You can pick and choose how you want your settings and what sites should and shouldn’t be routed through a proxy. Once again, a very useful and free tool that can be used in many different ways.

9. Aweber Newsletter

Building a Aweber newsletter list is a very valuable tool. If you have not jumped on board I would encourage you to do so as soon as you reasonably can. Permission based marketing is becoming a huge tool for marketers to utilize. If people like what you have to offer, setting them up to receive your newsletter is a great way to keep them in contact and make genuine offers you feel will help them. This doesn’t mean you can now spam everyone on your list but it does mean you now have an opportunity to point them in the right direction hopefully with an affiliate link or commission cut. Don’t lie, cheat or steal and you can make good money from this tool just by being responsible.

10. Bookmarking Demon (BMD)

BMD is a lot like the auto social poster plugin in how it helps to automate backlinks from bookmarking sites. These sites help to increase exposure for your content and hopefully some additional traffic as well. With this program you have the ability to bookmark and share your site, useful information or even your friend’s site. This would be the equivalent of an online shotgun with the idea of getting your site out to as many places as possible. This has the potential to be used in a spam-like manner but if used correctly can again help you to increase your digital footprint online.

Before you do anything online you should make yourself familiar with all the tools and possible consequences of using those tools. If used improperly some of these can get your site deindexed or ever banned, resulting in less traffic and authority. You also never want to spend money on any tools or programs that you will not utilize fully. Look up reviews and what others have to say about any one tool over another and proceed with caution. These are a few of the tools I use on a day-to-day basis, and I personally find them useful.