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Get A Grip With Twitter Tips

Posted by on Mar 12, 2010 | 6 Comments

It seems as though everyone in the world is on Twitter now. Sadly, not all of them know how to utilize this fabulous tool to maximize their outreach. The reach you can have by using social media can be staggering. However, you have to know how to use the service correctly to get your message across in a way that people will want to read.

I am by no means an expert on anything. Over the years, though, I’ve learned what works through trial and error — and what doesn’t! I’ve made some amazing connections online, and I’ve soaked up every bit of information that I could from them. After receiving a lot of questions and emails from many of you who are struggling to “master” Twitter, I decided to put together an eBook full of Twitter tips and tricks to help you get started.

To help keep you in the tweet spirit, the eBook contains 140 tips, all written in 140 characters or less. Best of all… it only will cost you $1.40! So why should you shell out a buck and a half of your hard-earned money for yet another eBook? I’ve come up with several reasons, actually!

If you’re new to Twitter, or still unsure how to use it effectively, this eBook will guide you in all of the right directions. Navigating your way through the maze that is Twitter can be daunting. Who should you follow? How do you get followers? What should you say? How do you say it?!

Twitter is a great tool for getting out information about your organization. However, doing so properly is crucial to people taking notice. When you have a startup that you’ve poured your heart, soul and money into, you may not have much of a marketing budget left at the end of the day. Why not make use of social media to get that word spreading like wildfire?

Your customers are on Twitter, and they’re talking about you. Do you know how to best take advantage of that? I have one word for you here: ComcastCares. Frank and his team are listening, and they’re using what you are saying on Twitter to help make your experience better. Isn’t that the kind of service you want to provide?

Are you launching a new product or service? What are people going to think about it? Use Twitter to effectively gauge consumer reaction, and to promote what you have to sell.

If you have something important to tell the World, using Twitter can be one of your best friends. Just take a look at what people such as Drew Olanoff and Mark Horvath have done. Our guide can help you communicate with the rest of the World effectively via Twitter.

Do you not have as many followers as you would like? Let our tips help you to become someone that everyone will want to follow! Your name doesn’t have to be Ashton Kutcher in order to get a zillion followers, honestly!

Are you shy? Using social media services such as Twitter can help you to break out of your shell, 140 characters at a time. The tips we’ve gathered together in this eBook can help you get started, and will provide you with a lot of insight as to how it all works.

When looking for a career change, networking with others is the name of the game. Even if you’re happy in your current position, it doesn’t hurt to learn how to network to your possible future benefit on Twitter.

Posting about your breakfast or your trip to the restroom doesn’t make for interesting reading… so what DOES? Do you even have a clue as to what people want to read? Think for a moment about what you enjoy learning from others on Twitter. Now take a look at your own tweet stream — and our tips — and figure out if you’re saying something worthwhile.

Everyone who is ANYONE is on Twitter, including me! Isn’t that reason enough for you to be there, as well?

Many of the tips in this eBook were submitted by people just like you, from right here in our community. I’ve given credit where credit is due in the guide, and would like to thank them again here. If you have ideas for tips or tricks we forgot to include, go ahead and email them to me! They may just be included in a future revision. Be sure to give me your Twitter account along with your submission, so that I can credit what you write back to you.

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  • http://www.youtube.co.uk/illage2 illage2

    I fully agree with all the featuresd that Chrome OS needs. This is the first blog post that I have encountered that mentions the issue of needing a constant internet connection.

  • http://profiles.google.com/jimcullenaus Jim Cullen

    1) Taskbar? The whole idea of this is to make it as simple as possible to access the web. It works exactly as the Chrome browser does now, there’s no need for a taskbar. Your tabs are as close as you need.
    2) It’s a feature that is coming very soon, but I agree, without pretty good offline support for email, docs, etc., there are some major flaws in using a Chromebook.
    3) I haven’t used one, but another commenter says they do have context menus, how you could have missed this (if he’s right) is beyond me. If it indeed doesn’t have context menus (which I seriously doubt), then you’re right, that’s a feature that is MUCH needed.
    5) I don’t quite understand why you need a better store. From what I’ve seen of the current Chrome Web Store in the Chrome browser, it seems brilliant. Search works very nicely, and they have a very simple interface for finding various categories, featured apps, etc.

  • http://twitter.com/cnctNow Ben Anderson

    I have a couple of issues with this. Right click only works if you have a two button mouse…something that Chromebooks won’t likely have. The task bar is at the top…the tabs act as your “task bar” showing you the open items and are much easier to manage than a “windows” system. In fact you can still pan between windows with specific tabs at the push of a button. The App Store isreally quite clean and seamless. Offline gmail, docs, games, calendar, is a basic function of Chrome OS and will be more ubiquitous in coming months. Moving files between the download and file manager system is really easy. Drag and drop. The persistent pop-up tiles at the bottom of the screen allow drag and drop and you can move between them really easily. It’s also easy to open them in the browser and then grab the file in the Omni box and drag it to the folder you want. Frankly the only thing the Chrome OS is need of right now is a solid media player. I need to be able to use this thing to play videos on an SD card, or music I download. It would also help to have a dedicated “cloud” folder that I could call my “C” drive and download all of my files to rather than a GDocs, GMusic, YouTube, Box.net, Picassa, Flickr, etc…that require me to open up and enter passwords for half a dozen different storage urls. Even if this system was just a storage place for bookmarks that open up those Web Apps with the associated document/file without any need to sign in to said Web App. Chrome OS takes some getting used to and will require a learning curve of sorts. Although I see this system being the best system for average users in the long term, in the short term Google has some things to fine tune. That’s what the Beta program is about. I suspect the Chromebooks in the pipeline right now are more polished than the CR48′s out there right now which is a shame but I see that changing relatively soon.

  • michaelpalecek

    Chrome should be its own thing, but it does need something like the task bar or even the applications bar (not sure what it is called) on a Mac or the task bar in Linux. The user needs something to show what is running and to switch between tasks