There is no doubt that one of the differences in a power user on any social media (Digg, SU or delicious) and a normal wannabe user is his access to exclusive tools. Now, tools are available for everyone but not all uses all of them, or we are selectively comfortable with a few that we ignore the rest.
Experts say that they use the power tools wisely, beyond the ordinary use and that’s the reason why they are able to perform better than the normal user.
So now you know why a top Digg user has more number of Diggs than you?

1 – Shareaholic plugin for Firefox

Requires – Firefox browser and some quick fingers
One of the most powerful plugins available for free today, Shareaholic adds a small button to the browser that you can use the page you are on currently to submit to a variety of social media sites. you can customize the number of sites from the list of available ones, but the most interesting and useful feature is – when you roll over the button, it will show you the current status of the page on the social media. Ex: If the page has been already submitted to Digg, then while rolling over it shows the number of diggs, or if it’s delicious, it shows the number of saves! So you save time in actually visiting the site and finding out the numbers yourself.

2 – Delicious Bookmarks

Requires – Firefox plugin and some quick fingers
This tool adds a col sidebar that displays your delicious bookmarks with their stats, so that you can use it for reference. A must have for all delicious fans.

3 – Twitterbar
Requires – Firefox browser
TwitterBar allows you to post to Twitter from Firefox’s address bar. A
small unobtrusive grey icon sits to the right of your address bar;
clicking on it will post your tweet, and you can hover your mouse over
it to see how many characters you have left.

4 – Digg Sidebar

Requires – Firefox browser and a Digg account

TwitterBar allows you to post to Twitter from Firefox’s address bar. A
small unobtrusive grey icon sits to the right of your address bar;
clicking on it will post your tweet, and you can hover your mouse over
it to see how many characters you have left.

5 – Friendfeed Groups – Greasemonky script

Requires – Greasemonkey and lot of friends
This is a Greasemonkey script, that lets you sort your feeds by creating groups in your friendfeed. Very useful if you have lot of friends to sort and follow.

6 – Dgg Washer script

Requires – Greasemonkey and verocious appetite for diggs
This is a Greasemonkey script, that lets you avoid stories based on a keyword on Digg.

7 – Bookmarker

Requires – Accounts with all social bookmarking sites

Compare and enjoy the power of social bookmarking, save and manage all
your bookmarks online. (Supported services: del.icio.us, digg.com,
diigo.com, ma.gnolia.com, google.com, mister-wong.de, netvouz.com,
linkarena.com, alltagz.de, bobrdobr.ru). Now that’s quite a list.

8 – Dugg it Greasemonkey script

Requires – Greasemonkey and verocious appetite for diggs

This is a Greasemonkey script, that lets you avoid already read stories on Digg.com

9 – Delicious Tags Everywhere

Requires a voracious appetite for tagging and Firefox
This is a Firefox plugins that shows you Delicious tags on every story on every site. Not an ideal plugin for people who are not comfy with tagging. But power users have admitted that tagging is a great thing to do as it helps improve your rankings on social media sites. So if you want to do more tagging, this is the damn plugin for you.

10 – Ultimate Facebook plugin

Requires – Firefox and Facebook

UltimateFacebook makes Facebook easier and more fun to use. It
simplifies the way you (as a user) can move through Facebook’s core
features, removing as many as 2-3 clicks from simple things like
sending messages, writing on walls, viewing friends, etc.

11 – Digg Comment wader plugin

Requires – Firefox
Digg Comment Spotlight does exactly what its name hints, it spots
comments that other readers have taken the time to Digg, allowing you
to easily wade through 100′s of comments in an article.

12 – Socialphile Firefox plugin

Requires Firefox
Socialphile assists users with comfortable searching
(Google, Yahoo, MSN, Google News) based on ranking of each search
result at social news websites like Digg.com

13 – Digg Thumbs

Requires – Extensive Digg usage and Firefox
This firefox plugin shows a thumbnail of the website adjacent to the story over at Digg.
This is very useful especially when I want to check if the site I’m digging is authentic or not. Sometimes the title of the story may be very yummy, but the site looks crappy on visiting. Saves quite a lot of time here.

14 – Propeller Friends activity

Requires – Firefox and Propeller account
The Friends’ Activity Sidebar (FAS) extension helps you keep tabs on
what stories your Propeller.com friends are submitting, commenting, and
voting on. This is interesting because not many people like to spend time on Propeller like Digg, so a notifier does the right job, of alerting you of interesting stories and avoiding the rest.

15 – Bookmark every Digg

Requires – Digg and other social media accounts + Greasemonkey
This Greasemonkey script shows up all the (customizable) other social media sites submission links next to every Digg story. Very useful if you want to submit the Digg story to another social media site on a regular basis, extensively.

16 – Dashblog

Requires – Firefox and Twitter
This is a personal favorite of mine. Dashblog is a FF extension where you can clip images/text or any data from any webpage to your blog(WP,Blogspot) or Twitter using this neat plugin.

17 – Long Text on Twitter

Requires – Twitter account and Firefox
If you want to publish status on Twitter which are beyond the 130 character limit, then you better install this extension. Enough said.

So there you have it, a total of 17 plugins and tool that will help increase your productivity on the traffic generating social media channels like Digg, SU and Twitter. Some of them may look dumb and staring at your face, but believe me it’s how you use them that matters. For an expert even the stupidest tool is a weapon !