400+ Tips, Tools, and Resources for Twitter
Twitter has exploded into a must-track resource for news, rants, consumer reports, public health, shopping deals and emerging trends. But if you’re looking for something or someone specific, how can you expect to carve out a niche and listen in on just a single thread of conversation? Our list of 400+ tips, tools and resources for Twitter is just for you.
25 ways to teach with Twitter by Sonja Cole
The 25 ways to teach with Twitter are:1) Ask for recommended books, lesson ideas, or teaching tools.2) Be sure to thank the people who respond.3) Ask for help or advice about a professional question.4) Write a book list one tweet at a time, or link to a book list on the web. 5) Tweet about a useful web resource, a particular blog post, video, website, book, product or service that teachers would find useful.6) Provide a daily tip like a word of the day, book of the day, random trivia, useful fact, teacher tip or helpful resource.7) Share new studies of interest to other teachers.……
A Roundup of Twitter Tracking Tools
The list below summarizes tools that analyze influencers or popularity, evaluate sentiment or number of mentions, identify the location of the person tweeting, offer trend analysis or focus on time frames. I marked an “X” in the category that I perceive is the tool’s primary utility. That is not to say that each tool doesn’t do other things. Also as an aside, I personally don’t like the idea of sharing my Twitter password with a third party. You will need to decide whether you want to share yours with tools like Twitstat and Twitterank.
50 Ways to Use Twitter in the College Classroom
Twitter has caught fire across many professional fields as well as personally, but it seems to be in the beginning stages in the realm of higher education. The creative ways Twitter users have incorporated microblogging has become inspirational, so the recent trend of using Twitter at college is sure to keep evolving into an ever more impressive tool. Make sure you don’t get left behind by incorporating some of these educational and fun ways that Twitter can be used in the college classroom.
5 Habits of Successful Executives on Twitter
1. They are their brand’s conscience; 2. They don’t sell – They share; 3. They are real human beings; 4. They write well; 5. They commit.
10 Twitter Tools to Organize Your Tweeps
But where do you begin? TwitterTwitterTwitter’s own tools for managing followers are subpar. It’s nearly impossible to figure out who among your followers are following you back, and the interface for paging through followers is clumsy and difficult to use. Fortunately, Twitter’s API has given rise to a vast universe of amazing third party apps. So we’ve assembled a toolkit below of 10 services that can help you take control of Twitter and organize your followers. If you know any other tools that would be helpful for organizing tweeps, add them in the comments.
The huge popularity that Twitter is currently attracting is making it an interesting service for a number of reasons. First of all if you jut like to Twit/chat with peers out in the www cloud you can be sure that there will be other Twitters with the same interests as you…. On the other hand if you’re a blogger or a company Twitter may be used to drive traffic or as a new way of linking up with potential visitors or customers (as followers). Regardless of how and why you use Twitter I hope the tools covered in this post will help you get more out of Twitter.
Local Tweets: 9 Ways to Find Twitter Users in Your Town
Finding local Twitter users to connect with is great for networking, but also for getting relevant, real-time, local information about things like jobs, news, politics, weather, food, and more. Someone tweeting from London can’t help you find a good place to eat in New York City, and if you live in Chicago, tweets about the weather in Los Angeles won’t be very enlightening. Here are nine ways to locate Twitter users in your town to help you get the most out of Twitter.
Twitter on your intranet: 17 microblogging tools for business
Microblogs have unique capabilities — and often, constraints — like short messages (often as little as 140 characters, like Twitter), a social messaging-friendly user profile with a short handle, integration of automatic URL shorteners, specialized tagging, and a Twitter-compatible API to use the dozens of high quality clients on desktop and mobile platforms are just some differences between blogs and microblogs. Ultimately, if you want to use the right tool for the job, you’re probably going to need a specialized microblogging tool if you decide to adopt this rapidly emerging new type of social messaging.
Top 5 Twitter Related Trends to Watch
The top 5 Twitter Related Trends to Watch are Real-Time Search Engines, Verified Accounts, Trending Twitter Giveaways, Sponsored Tweets and Twitter Chat.
30 Fresh and High Quality Twitter Icon Sets
Placing a Twitter “follow me” button on your website or blog is certainly one of the easiest way to convert visitors into Twitter followers. Designing a beautiful Twitter icon or badge can be challenging for those who know less about design, but the good news is – there are plenty of nice and high quality Twitter icons and badges available for free.
In this week’s post, we attempt to show you another 30 Sets of High Quality Twitter Icons associated with the blue bird.
The 100 most mentioned brands on Twitter
Revolution teamed up with i-level’s social media agency Jam to reveal the 100 most mentioned brands on Twitter and how they are aiming to capitalise on the buzz.
7 Habits of Highly Effective Twitterers: Wayne Sutton
1. Filters and searches; 2. There are no rules, but establish your “twitter goals”; 3. Understand prime tweet hours for conversations and traffic; 4. Setup your workflow and apps; 5. “Always a tweet away”; 6. Sharing information and being helpful; and 7. Understand what Twitter really is.
40 Cute Free Twitter Graphics: Badges, Icons & Buttons…
We’ve put together this free set of unique twitter graphics. Simply drag and drop the various graphics, icons, badges and buttons into your work free of charge. There really is no limit to what you can do with this brilliant set, lovingly designed by Pasquale D’Silva
10 Ways to Share Music on Twitter
Twitter (Twitter) is fast becoming one of the most important ways to share information quickly, easily, and instantly over the web. Users and developers have found a lot of innovative ways to pack a ton of utility into just 140 characters, including sharing images, sharing video, and sharing documents. What about music? Turns out, there are plenty of ways to share tunes on Twitter as well. Below are ten of the best ways to tweet about what you’re listening to.
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