Jun 21
Bullet Steps:
Jan 26
How to send automatic one time direct messages (DM) to new followers on Twitter.
Before I go into how to set up an automatic DM, I’d like to share a few of my thoughts.
First, I do NOT believe in using this feature for sending people directly to sales pages, ads, videos, etc. NO ONE LIKES RECEIVING THESE! IT’S INCREDIBLY ANNOYING AND PEOPLE WILL BLOCK YOU.. INCLUDING ME. It’s called Twitter etiquette : )
Jan 12
Part 2: Networking Using Twitter
Why Twitter? Believe it or not, your interests, desires, talents are actually important and interesting to others in the world. Twitter limits you to 140 characters to express whatever you want through what is called a ‘tweet’. So why should I use this service? Read on…
Nov 15
Oct 6
Twitter Search is a great tool to use. I use twitter search to find people talking about a certain topic at that moment in time. It’s powerful because you can get real time information instantly on a topic.
Tweet Grid is also an awesome resource as well. Tweet Grid let’s you set up multiple search topics and see who is tweeting about those specific topics in real time. I personally like to use the New Experimental Layout: 1×4 grid.
Hash tags are also used a lot in tweets and on twitter searches. For example, if I wanted to search the current tweets about soccer I would put #soccer in the twitter search box and a list of current tweets on the topic of soccer would show up. This happens because people talking about soccer in a tweets put #soccer somewhere in their tweet (usually at the end) so it’s easily searched and found for people looking for news and information on the topic of soccer. Hashtags are used for categorizing tweets…
Jun 19
Creating a Background Image for your Twitter Profile
Another cool feature that Twitter offers is the ability for you to modify your Twitter background. For example, it allows you to incorporate your blog or website design into your Twitter background. Here are some design layout dimensions that you can work with to create a Twitter background image:
In Photoshop you want to set your dimensions as follows:
Apr 18
Oprah(@oprah)-Get’s informed of what Twitter is and get’s a tweet from Ellen(@theellenshow)
Ashton Kutcher(@aplusk)- Talks about how he beat CNN to a million followers.
Evan Williams(@ev)- Talks about how Twitter got started.
