Drowning in tweets? Here’s a life preserver…

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With tens of millions of tweets sent each day, twitter is a definitely one of the best places for information sharing. In spite of the redesigned interface, though, significant numbers of new twitterers drop out. For many beginners, the tool is clearly too tricky to manage. Others confess to being overwhelmed by the volume of tweets and become frustrated as the ever growing river of conversations and news passes them by.

For those struggling, here are two tips to help you get the most from your twitter network, in less than five minutes a day.

1. Turn  your network into the best newspaper in the world – the ‘You’ Daily
Paper.li is a service that takes your most important twitter or Facebook content, conversations, links and extracts the most critical articles, video, pictures shared during the day. It presents these in an easy-to-read newspaper style format.

Using Paper.li, you can catch up on stories you may have missed from the people you trust in a format that makes more sense to many twitter ‘doubters’.
http://paper.li/
2. Filters help you finding signal within noise
Twitter can be noisy, especially if you’re following thousands of people. The more you follow, the harder it is to keep across conversations and links. Linkedin offers a neat tool called Signal that displays only your Linkedin contacts’ twitter messages. Signal also provides access to the Linkedin filters, allowing you to read only messages from your clients, colleagues, people in a given city or industry and so on. In addition, Signal also provides access to the Linkedin profiles behind the twitter messages.
http://www.linkedin.com/signal/

While tools like Paper.li and Linkedin Signals can help you save time by identifying the most relevant information, it is critical to remember that the real value of twitter has not changed. Real twitter success comes from the conversations and interactions you have with your network.