1. Choose a client software
Most individuals install a client software program (a way to send and receive Twitter “tweets”) on their computer. Here are a few choices Twitter shows on their download page, along with other popular clients:
Digsby IM + Email + Social Networks
Twitteroo Fast Tweeting, a few nice settings
Twitbin Uses Firefox Browser - plugin
Spaz Mac/Windows/Linux
Snitter Mac/Windows (Linux in the works)
Twhirl Mac/Windows (Connects to multiple accounts - very popular)
TweetDeck Mac/Windows/Linux (my personal favorite)
Twitterrific Mac (Application that lets you read/post “tweets”)
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2. Twitter Shortcuts
Currently I subscribe to a few news groups. However, there has been an occasion where I just didn’t wish to receive any “tweets” (text messages) from Twitter for a short period of time on my cell phone. The following commands will allow you to take full control of Twitter from your cell phone.
Type the following commands into your SMS device (for the newbie, here is how you can use your cell phone to command Twitter in a pinch):
1. Text Twitter (with the phone number of 40404)
2. Enter the following commands as a txt message, and send the message with your command of choice.
OFF: turns phone notifications off, to silence direct messages too, send ‘off’ again
ON: turns phone notifications on
SLEEP: turns phone notifications off
WAKE: turns phone notifications on
FOLLOW username: turns on notifications for a specific individual
LEAVE username : turns off notifications for a specific individual
D username message: sends a private message to a specific individual, but they must be following you to receive it (D joesmith Hello World)
@username: sends a public message to a specific individual (@joesmith Hellow World)
WHOIS username: returns bio info for a Twitter member
GET username : returns the last update from a specific individual
FAVE username : marks the last update of a user as a favorite
TRACK word : returns updates from the Twitter community containing the tracked word
TRACKING: returns a list of words you’re tracking
UNTRACK word : stops tracking a word
UNTRACK all : stops tracking all words
INVITE 4155225678: invites a friend via SMS/text message to join Twitter **(use their phone number with no spaces or dashes)**
STATS: returns statistics with your number of “followers” and “following”
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3. How to Backup Twitter
On July 24, 2008, Twitter lost many users following/followers. Twitter.com states “We’ve restored 99.6% of following/followers that disappeared. numbers & profile pics in sidebar may not be accurate until tomorrow afternoon 07:37 PM July 24, 2008 from web.”
I felt a large pit in my stomach, knowing I had lost many individuals I followed, and could not recall all of them to “search” their user name again. Many wonderful individuals were stumbled upon.
After much research on the Internet I located two choices.
If you do/don’t use MS Outlook, here is very good reason to use it. There is a plug-in tool called “OutTwit” which allows you to “tweet” with MS Outlook. The benefit of using MS Outlook for your tweeting needs out weighs the desire to not use MS Outlook. Here’s a quick explanation why. Outlook downloads the usernames you correspond with daily from Twitter.com (the same way e-mail works). This pulls the information from Twitter’s server to your hard drive. Now you have the usernames stored in MS Outlook that you correspond with, if Twitter happens to lose our information again.
The best I saved for last. The brilliant Twitter member vkoser, posted a wonderful step-by-step guide on how to download your “following” and “followers” directly from Twitter, and export them into an MS Excel file, for safe keeping. Thank you vkoser!
Great artice courtesy of this blog here
Thursday, May 21, 2009
Sunday, May 3, 2009
Powerful Twitter tools for traffic
This is a great article I read the other day from an online friend, The Traffic Gur.
I had to share it with all of you. Before I post the article however, after you read it make sure you get over to his site and follow him, he really is great.
Here it is.
Traffic Rank of Twitter in alexa ranking is now 54 and hope it will decrease more because Twitter is becoming more Popular now.Adding your Twitter profile link to other social Networking sites will brings you traffic such as facebook,Blogcatalog ,friendfeed,linkedin,mybloglog,plaxo and tumblr etc.., I listed some twitter tools which helps to enhance twitter more.
1.Twitterfeed is a service which will automatically twitter any post that you publish on your blog and you can get some followers and visitors from it.
2.Retweet is nothing but when you come across an interesting tweet and you want to republish it so that people who follow you can see it too.Add retweet button to your blog posts ,so if any visitor like your post ,they retweet it and their followers can see and you can get some traffic.
3.Twittercounter make visitors get attention which shows that how many people are following you in Twitter.Get the code from TwitterCounter.com and edit the username with your Twitter profile name and add it on your blog, website and in forum signatures.
4.Tweetbeep helps you to get Twitter alerts in e-mail with often updates when any conversations mention you and those who’s tweeting your site or blog.
5.Twitterholic shows the statistics and ranking of Twitter Users and it ranks the most popular twitter users based on the followers and you can check your ranking in twitterholic too.
6.Tweetlater helps you to Schedule Future-Dated Twitter Tweets.
7.TwitResponse is a auto-responder in which you can Setup unlimited messages to be delivered to your twitter page when you want.
8.Socialtoo will help you to keep track of all those Twitter users who followed or unfollowed you.
9.MrTweet is a personal networking assistant which will help you to find your relevant Twitter followers.
10.Whoshouldifollow will helps you to find other interesting people who are similar to those you already follow and then to follow them in twitter.
11.TweetManager helps to setup the Auto Follow, Send Message to Followers, Auto Reply, Auto Post and Tweet RSS Feeds.
12.TwitterKarma can manage your friends,followers and mutual friends and you can un-follow those twitter users who are not following you on twitter.
Article Source
I had to share it with all of you. Before I post the article however, after you read it make sure you get over to his site and follow him, he really is great.
Here it is.
Traffic Rank of Twitter in alexa ranking is now 54 and hope it will decrease more because Twitter is becoming more Popular now.Adding your Twitter profile link to other social Networking sites will brings you traffic such as facebook,Blogcatalog ,friendfeed,linkedin,mybloglog,plaxo and tumblr etc.., I listed some twitter tools which helps to enhance twitter more.
1.Twitterfeed is a service which will automatically twitter any post that you publish on your blog and you can get some followers and visitors from it.
2.Retweet is nothing but when you come across an interesting tweet and you want to republish it so that people who follow you can see it too.Add retweet button to your blog posts ,so if any visitor like your post ,they retweet it and their followers can see and you can get some traffic.
3.Twittercounter make visitors get attention which shows that how many people are following you in Twitter.Get the code from TwitterCounter.com and edit the username with your Twitter profile name and add it on your blog, website and in forum signatures.
4.Tweetbeep helps you to get Twitter alerts in e-mail with often updates when any conversations mention you and those who’s tweeting your site or blog.
5.Twitterholic shows the statistics and ranking of Twitter Users and it ranks the most popular twitter users based on the followers and you can check your ranking in twitterholic too.
6.Tweetlater helps you to Schedule Future-Dated Twitter Tweets.
7.TwitResponse is a auto-responder in which you can Setup unlimited messages to be delivered to your twitter page when you want.
8.Socialtoo will help you to keep track of all those Twitter users who followed or unfollowed you.
9.MrTweet is a personal networking assistant which will help you to find your relevant Twitter followers.
10.Whoshouldifollow will helps you to find other interesting people who are similar to those you already follow and then to follow them in twitter.
11.TweetManager helps to setup the Auto Follow, Send Message to Followers, Auto Reply, Auto Post and Tweet RSS Feeds.
12.TwitterKarma can manage your friends,followers and mutual friends and you can un-follow those twitter users who are not following you on twitter.
Article Source
Popularity of Twitter Applications in Youth
With the passage of time, things have changed and improved. Like in computers character user interface was used but with the popularity of computer, graphic user interface was used. Graphic user interface became so popular because of its application, its user friendly environment and its appearance. Twitter applications are the examples of graphic user interface. Special applications are provided by The Twitter Secret. With these applications, usage of applications become easy and saves lots of time.
Pallavi is an executive of Wensil i Technologies.
Twitter Applications have become very popular in youths. Main reason is these are very attractive and eye catchy. Applications are specifically designed according to youth's environment because maximum young people surf the net most especially social networking websites like twitter, facebook etc.
Twitter Applications are additional features that can be added to the twitter secret. By adding a twitter application to your profile, your public profile information will be shared through the application with its developer, with your friends who receive your updates on twitter.
There are various kinds of applications like computer application which is known as software in your compute. It includes word processing, spreadsheet, internet, browsing, and anti-virus and e-mail software. The entire buzz for the past year has been about social applications, interactive pieces of media that you can install on your Twitter.
Twitter is becoming popular day by day and now it's impossible to escape from twitter. With the usage of it, it's becoming popular and to increase its interactivity various twitter applications are launching in market. Applications like playing games, using stylish fonts in your account, sending flowers to your friend on his/her birthday and so on. The reason of popularity is also 140 microblogging systems which twitter uses. In microblogging, you can send short message to your friend and its character limit is only 140.
Many of twitter applications are written by harmless programming enthusiasts as a bit of fun, but many are also written purely for marketing purposes. Nowadays marketing has become 1st most step of any product. It is the kind of conveying and telling information about the product to the customers. If marketing strategy is good and attractive then no doubts customer will use the product at least for once. It's all about promoting your product to the user and nowadays the main medium of marketing is television and internet. These are the 2 mediums which is most popular and useful nowadays.
Using social networking site is really popular because you can contact to your old buddies through it. That's why people love it while using it. And they try various things on it. For example, if today I have launched twitter application - "make love relations". I assure you while seeing this application maximum user will add this application in your account and start using it. The main motive of any application is to increase popularity among users.
The main motive behind twitter application is to give the facility to the user, to enjoy the website while using it. Many of twitter applications are written by harmless programming enthusiasts as a bit of fun, but many are also written purely for marketing purposes.
Pallavi is an executive of Wensil i Technologies.
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