If you’re reading this, it’s either because you’ve just started following me on Twitter, or you’re thinking of following me on Twitter.
I want to tell you how I use Twitter.
I’m not saying it’s the best way or even that it’s the right way, but it’s the way that I use it and will continue to.
Firstly be aware, I tweet a lot. A LOT. If you don’t follow many people, then it could seem at times that I’m the only one tweeting. And it could get annoying.
So what do I tweet about?
OK, I’m all for starting them young, but in the womb? 
http://mashable.com/2008/12/14/baby-twitter/
Excerpt:
Expectant father Corey Menscher wanted to “create a device that would give me a chance to be aware of our baby’s movements”. He created a waistband for his wife which sends a Tweet everytime the baby kicks, naming the project “Kickbee”.
We’re loving this:
in the series of 100 Twitter Tips, visit:
The brainchild of Alfred Armstrong and Nikki Pilkington, Tweetake is here to allow you to back-up your followers, people you are following and Tweets with just one click.
Why bother to do this? Many reasons:
A quick round up of morning Twitter news
Matthom got so fed up waiting for Twitter to create an archive facility that he created his own - you can read more about it on his blog. He says:
Rather than updating Twitter directly, I will update via a custom app which copies each update into a local database, as well as updating on Twitter. To my followers, nothing changes. My updates still come across in real-time as they are sent.
He still hasn’t figured out how to get his old Tweets back, but we have no doubt he’s working on it!
After I posted this post about getting business from Twitter, in various places, someone said to me that it must take a lot of dedication and discipline to get those results from Twitter.
I spoke to a few other people who said that they thought it would take an awful lot of time to achieve any sort of results on twitter that would be useful for their business.
This is my response:
Hi XX
Honestly, it hasn’t taken up loads of my time.
I’ve installed Tweetdeck - this makes it easy to see Tweets - you could install Twitterfox or Twhirl for similar results.
I understand why people find it hard to see twitter as anything more than ‘fun’ and a ‘waste of time’ - and indeed it can be both of those things (separately and together in fact!).
But Twitter can also be a great business and marketing tool.
In the past 7 days I have:
Want to get your message out via Twitter? Why not help your followers by pre-populating their Tweet message in the following way:
To create your own pre-populated tweet link just format a link as follows:
http://twitter.com/home?status=Putyourmessagehere
Like this - tell people about 299 Steps to Website Heaven being FREE for one day by clicking this Twitter link
Great article from David Lee King here about Twitter best practices and how to NOT seem like a complete newbie!
A lot of it is plain common sense, but in easy to read bullet points and with clear explanations.
Rather than rewrite the whole thing, I’ll put his basic bullet points below and you can read the full article on his site. He’s taken the time to write it - he deserves the traffic!
Twitter Best Practices:
1. Have a bio.
2. Extra links in your bio.
3. Spell check your bio text.
For those that say Twitter is a waste of time, has no value and will never be useful, I give you….. Twitterlearn!
They say:
Each of the series are linked to our podcasts and the content being tested in the regular quizzes is based on the content of our podcasts. In most cases the quiz will feature a phrase or series of words to be translated into the foreign language. By clicking on the link published with each ‘tweet’ you will be able to check your answer on the website.
