Can I Please Have Some Ketchup With My Twitter Tots?
Twitter is making big waves these days and has been throughout 2007. If you haven’t heard of Twitter, it’s kind of like Instant Messaging but different and better.
In their own words:
Twitter is a service for friends, family, and co–workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: What are you doing? Bloggers can use it as a mini-blogging tool. Developers can use the API to make Twitter tools of their own. Possibilities are endless!
And I’ll just add – THE WHOLE FREAKIN’ GLOBAL COMMUNITY!!
You have 140 characters to answer the question, “What are you doing?”
So what’s the point?
Well, people want to know what you’re doing, what you think, where you’re at, what you’ve found, what you’re watching on TV, what you’ve written, what you’re listening to, are you awake or sleeping, are you going out or staying in, what you like or dislike, answering others questions, on and on.
How Do I Tweet?
You use a computer or mobile device. It’s all at http://www.twitter.com. You have four tabs on your Twitter home page – Recent – Replies – Archives – Everyone. The default tab Recent will list the recent tweets from the folks you follow. Replies are people who have sent you Tweets. Archives list everything you’ve typed in the 140 character text box and sent. Everyone is, well, everyone on Twitter, and it helps you find other interesting people and what they’re Twittering about.
How Do I Follow Someone?
Start with your friends and family or go looking for Tweeters in the stuff you’re interested in or not interested in, which can turn out to be something you’re interested in. If you read a blog or blogs and admire the blog’s author, maybe the blogger has a link on their blog to their Twitter profile. Click on their profile to follow them. Or you could just start tweeting to no one and get a feel for it. Then go out and find tweeters by using the tools listed in this article.
Your first Tweet in the 140 character box could be:
- Hello Word or
- Hi my name is
or
- Good morning Tweets or
- I’m in L.A. anyone available for lunch or
- I found this cool link if you like
or
- Does anybody have this type of phone that I have? It’s a Fabulous Phone 500 and I think it’s broken.
- I think you get the idea.
How Do I Enhance My Twitter Experience?
Here are 55 articles and tools that will assist you with your Twittering:
- TweetVolume
- Help at Twitter
- Tweet like a Pirate
- Twitter saves lives
- Extra Super Tuesday
- Bring lists to Twitter
- Twitter through Skitch
- A game at Wordy Birdie
- Quit smoking with Qwitter
- See who’s Tweeting locally
- The Twitter FAQ at Twitter
- Photos and Videos on Twitter
- What is Twitter Doing Today?
- Follow a daily poll at StrawPoll
- Post to Twitter with TwitterMail
- Another Firefox add-on – TwitterFox
- TwitStats – More stats for your Twitter
- Politweets – When Twitter gets political
- Show some appreciation using tweetgift
- Twitter on your iPhone at thincloud.com
- Have a question? Check out Dearlazy.com
- Virtual Assistant Sandy works over Twitter
- Your Twitter stats provided by TweetStats
- Visualize your Twitter feeds with tweetPad
- A List of News Organizations using Twitter
- Make your feelings known with plusplusbot
- Eavesdropping on Twitter using overheard.it
- Follow Snoop Dogg and check out the badge
- What have you tweeted in the last 24 hours?
- Look for more people to follow using Twubble
- What Twitter Does For Me by Remarkablogger
- Do real-time Twitter searches with Tweet Scan
- Create a crowd with CrowdStatus (alpha status)
- Create groups of private tweets with GroupTweet
- Why I Deleted My Twitter Account by GapingVoid
- Need more than 140 Character? Twitzer for Firefox
- Follow a conversation using Quotable. Very Nice. 🙂
- The Big Juicy Twitter Guide by Caroline Middlebrook
- Use Commuter Feed for you local traffic incident reports
- TweetCloud – Creates a tag cloud of your Twitter words
- Send your latest Flickr photo to Twitter with SnapTweet
- TwitterShare allows file sharing reported by ReadWriteWeb
- Twittown – The Unofficial Twitter Community (alpha status)
- Summize offers a better Twitter search reported by Mashable
- Twitter: A Valuable Marketing Tool & Much More by ClickNewz
- Foamee tracks who you owe beer or coffee to (and vice versa)
- A real-time geographic visualization at twittervision. Just plain fun
- A new kind of Social Portal called Gridjit reported by The Blog Herald
- Write Text Longer Than 140 Characters in Twitter by Digital Inspiration
- Twitter Meter queries all indexed words sent to Twitter’s public timeline
- Harvest On Twitter – A Future Twitter Business Model? by ReadWriteWeb
- Turn your Twitter status into an email image signature or for your website
- Five Reasons Twitter is an Essential Social Media Tool by Search Engine Guide
- 17 Ways You Can Use Twitter: A Guide for Beginners, Marketers and Business Owners by Dosh Dosh
- Twhirl – A Twitter client that runs on your computer using Adobe AIR to run it. I’m currently using Twhirl in addition to Flock for my Twittering. It’s pretty darn nice.
For more information on the tools above and how you can use them please be sure to check out Demo Girl and Twitterholics.
Final Thoughts
Twittering is like having everyone in a big room from around the world and everyone is walking around talking with each other. Pretty cool.
Although, I have this vision that there’ll be a huge Twitter convention where everyone will be in the same conference room, and it will be completely quiet except for some clicking sounds, actually a lot of clicking sounds. Why? We’ll all be sending Tweets via our mobile device and too busy to look up and start talking to each other. 😉
Here’s my Twitter profile – http://www.twitter.com/BillS2000
Feel free to leave your Twitter profile in the comments so everyone can becomes followers and followees.
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Tobias says
Twitter is for good platform for me to spread my opinion on political topics. It’s really useful for me, but unfortunately no one of my real life friends use it, but it helps me to connect with people all over the world.
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when used the right way, can exponentially grow your business’s online presence and increase your customer following. It becomes more and more popular. Recently I also registered my new account on Twitter
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