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What the heck is Twitter?

What the heck is Twitter?



Whether or not you know what Twitter is, I bet I have a few facts you didn’t know. According to Wikipedia, Twitter is a free social-networking and micro-blogging service that enables people to send and read messages up to 140 characters long. That’s not much, but in todays fast moving world, many people don’t have time to read much more. Like other social networks, you can follow and connect with people.

So what is twitter good for? There is no way I could list all uses. So I’ll just mention a few. You can use Twitter to [...] Continue reading What the heck is Twitter?

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Twitter – To follow or not to follow?

Twitter – To follow or not to follow?

Shamelessly advertising my own twitter account

I am not sure if I should admit this, but… ahh… lets just say I have followed a lot of people. OK, lets make this more clear. I have been a Twitter whore and followed anyone. I later found out that many of the “people” I followed were not even real people. They were just bots, as in automated twitter accounts. So I was following everyone and everything, sounds gross, doesn’t it?

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A Neat Little Twitter Trick

A Neat Little Twitter Trick

Yesterday I downloaded a couple chapters of Joel’s Comm’s Twitter Power book, and I noticed something interesting on that site.

Joel had a link you could click that would send you to Twitter with a tweet already filled in for you. He obviously did that so his visitors could tweet and spread the word about his book promotion, but up until then, I had never seen that strategy used before.

It’s something that’s certainly worth testing. Given Twitter’s non-pitch atmosphere, I’d recommend only trying it to encourage tweets about pure content or freebie giveaways, though.

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