I’ve lately jumped on the Twitter bandwagon and started trying to use it for marketing and publicity. At first I thought it was just so much “Today my 3 month old spit up her strained pears onto my best Vera Wang scarf” and not much else. Because I really couldn’t care less what I had for breakfast, much less what YOU had. :)

Since then, I’ve had an epiphany and see that quite a number of high profile folks are using Twitter to promote themselves, their services and their web sites. It’s perfect for a web design company to announce site launches, new free themes, design specials and promotions, and to update folks on what we’ve been doing.

With that in mind, I’ve listed below a few Twitter tools that I am checking out. If you think of others that should be on the list, feel free to drop a comment!

Douglas Karr, of the Marketing Tech Blog just released some freshly designed Twitter icons free for the download that you can use on your blog. I’ve been looking for something besides the somewhat bland Twitter “T” and these fit the bill nicely. Garter snap to Doug for always going the extra mile and giving back tenfold to the community, whether it’s something like this or his immensely popular jazzed up WP Contact Form.