Now you’re on Twitter and tweeting like the pros, but how do you develop a following. This involves a little reaching out. Granted people will find you without you having to go find them, but finding them first speeds up the process.
The first thing I tell anyone to do that is looking for more followers [...]
By Jon Bishop
Twitter’s API allows for information to be sent to your Twitter account without ever logging in. This is handy when using other status update type sites that you would also like posted on twitter. Here are a few examples of the more popular sites being used.
BrightKite
BrightKite is a location-based version of Twitter that supports images [...]
By Jon Bishop
Hash tags are a means of organizing conversations around events, holidays, ideas, webinars and the list goes on. Anything you would like to have an organized conversation about could have it’s own hash tag.
Anyone can create their own hash tag by simply placing a # before their tag. For example, during Graph Expo, Rick Littrell [...]
By Jon Bishop
One of the greatest things about Twitter is the ability to scan it quickly for resourceful links. When Twitter first burst onto the scene, people needed a way to shorten their links so they wouldn’t take up the whole Tweet. The result of this need spawned a whole slur of URL shortening websites.
Example:
http://www.magicomm.biz/blog/url-shortening-on-twitter becomes http://tinyurl.com/6ae575
Why [...]
By Jon Bishop
You’ve now mastered Tweeting and Replying to your fellow twitterers but maybe you want to message a user without the rest of the world seeing it. No problem. Just type “d”, then a space, then the username of the person you would like to send your message to. So if my boss wanted to send [...]
By Jon Bishop
Replying to other people’s posts is a great way to make connections and gain new followers.
What is a Reply and how do I start doing it?
Replies are Tweets directed at other Twitter users. This could be as a response to a question or even just trying to get their attention.
To send a reply, start your [...]
By Jon Bishop
What Are You Doing?
That’s what Twitter wants to know and that’s what you are going to tell them. The trick is filtering out the stuff that other people don’t want to know. There is nothing wrong with tweeting about your personal life and in fact it is encouraged. If you post things that are funny, [...]
By Jon Bishop
The first thing you should do after you’ve created your account is personalize your page. Most Twitter users will check out your Twitter page before subscribing to your feed, so it is important that you create a good first impression.
All changes to your page can be done through Twitter’s “settings” tab.
Your “About Me” section
Be sure [...]
By Jon Bishop
Signing up for Twitter could possibly be the easiest thing you do all day. It only takes a few minutes and it is pretty much self explanatory.
First things first you can either use the link below or find that button on the Twitter home page to begin the sign up process.
Choosing a Twitter Username
Now you [...]
By Jon Bishop
Twitter is a social networking and micro-blogging service that allows users to send “updates” (or “tweets”; text-based posts, up to 140 characters long) to the Twitter website, via short message service (e.g. on a cell phone), instant messaging, or a third-party application such as Twitterrific or Facebook.
- From Wikipedia
Commoncraft also has a pretty good explanation [...]
By Jon Bishop
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