Besides becoming the worlds primary major real-time news source, Twitter is recognized as a place where one person can help another person no matter where they are. Because while Facebook helps you find your friends, on Twitter, you can reach the world.

To help you get the most from Twitter, I’ve gathered together eight of the hottest Twitter tools out there, all newly updated recently:

1. Get Double The Retweets and Clicks On Your Tweets …Automatically

A recent study showed the BufferApp tool doubled the retweets and clicks its users got (without needing to send twice as many tweets).

Sign up free, and it works automatically to create “special delivery” tweets (and soon Facebook updates) that reach more people for you.

Whenever you want one or more of your tweets to reach the most people to get more clicks and retweets, add it to your Buffer with just one click from any browser (Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Android and more integrations available) . It will then be tweeted at the best time for a lot of folks to see it.

THE BEST PART? Simple, yet incredibly effective! Use Buffer’s automatic settings, or customize it as desired.

THE HOT NEWS! After a recent database upgrade, Facebook integration is coming soon.

2. New Twitter.com Search Features You Should Grab NOW

Simply put, you must have these new Twitter search features.

What are they? Features such as searching your timeline, your old tweets, your DMs, and much more with CloudMagic‘s new Twitter.com search integration.

Get ready for blazingly fast instant search—results while you type (even after typing just a single letter). And it even lets you search offline. It includes Gmail calendar and contacts search options as well.

WHAT’S BEST? The end of Twitter search annoyances! Read all about it here.

HOT NEWS! This is brand new! CloudMagic’s integration with Twitter search just came out this week.

3. Start Connecting With Top Twitter Users

Edelman’s TweetLevel website is an awesome way to find great Twitter users by topic, influence, trust, engagement or popularity with a nice analytics display of your results. It then makes it very easy for you to follow and start talking to these people right from the site.

WHAT’S BEST? Not a game or a hard-to decipher set of numbers, but a leading way to find out who’s who.

HOT NEWS! After releasing great new features like analyzing hashtags and finding influencers by topic, Edelman was hired by Twitter as its first ever PR agency.

4. The Ultimate All-In-One Social Media Tool

HOT NEWS! The MarketMeSuite premium Twitter dashboard, formerly a paid service, is now free for everyone!

There are tons of great features. You can create reply campaigns, pull in RSS feeds and compare the Klout score of the users you are interacting with, collaborate with others. A quick feature overview:

WHAT’S BEST? Great tutorial videos on each feature help you start getting power results from this tool right away.

5. Clear Out Spammers, Quitters and Low-Value Users

The longer you spend on Twitter, the more you find some people aren’t worth following anymore.

Some just quit, others waste your time. ManageFlitter has a terrific interface to help you keep your Twitter community humming with great people:

WHAT’S BEST? Simple: Instant connection via Twitter; then unfollow and organize followers as desired.

HOT NEWS! After becoming the first service to safely and easily integrate Google Plus with Twitter, ManageFlitter announced  a slew of improvement to their Google+ To Twitter tool.

6.  Deepen Your Relationships

Stop fighting the 140 character limit and get a room! Nurph gives you Twitter chat rooms.

Simply tweet a link to bring your friends & followers together for a real-time chat without taking over your follower’s timelines with long conversations.

Nurph chat rooms come complete with Twitter profile integration, tweet streaming, and hovercards – so you’re looking at a highly optimized Twitter-specific chat service. Nurph is one of those things you just have to try!

WHAT’S BEST? Create in-depth conversations in a private chat room with your twitter followers

HOT NEWS! Nurph is adding some exciting new features later this month. Follow @Nurph for details

7. Share, Track And Promote Your Blog Content 

Dlvr.it is your smart online mail carrier, delivering your content to where it can be seen, and tells you how many people enjoyed reading it, including analytics such as total clicks. Publish news and it’s automatically delivered everywhere it needs to be on the web: Twitter, Facebook, or wherever you want it to be.

WHAT’S BEST? Flexibility! Get your content to websites or social networks with just a click.

HOT NEWS! The latest update will auto-schedule your content for the times it’s most likely to be seen.

8. Get More Insights Into Tweets On Twitter.com

ParrotFish from Embed.ly saves you a lot of time. It displays all links from Tweets you come across with rich text preview. This means you can see the website or the media from the link, before clicking anything. I found this to be a great way to stay focused on reading news and not get distracted by clicking on posts which aren’t worth my time.

A small sample of their providers includes:

HOT NEWS! They have increased their total number of providers to over 200, and are about to launch Embedly Anywhere for website owners, which runs from just one line of JavaScript on your site. Super simple!

WHAT’S BEST? The Chrome Extension also comes with a functionality to save items to Instapaper directly from Twitter.com, a huge time saver for many users.

And there you have it! Eight great tools that have recently gotten even better. Give them a try today!