TWITTER TALK BY @AN

“ IT DEPENDS” QUESTIONS: 99.92% of the time the answer is:

QUESTIONS: 99.92% of the time the answer is:

Everything you’re about to see/hear has been put together from info freely available on the Interwebs. No private, proprietary, secret information will be divulged. (At least not “on the record”.)

WTF IS TWITTER?

IN THE SIMPLEST FORM: TWITTER IS A MASS COMMUNICATION TOOL THAT ANYBODY CAN USE

ONE  MANY ONE  ONE MANY  ONE

“ TWEET”ING THE ACT OF SENDING A MESSAGE TO ONE OR MANY

NOT 140 BUT 120 Leave enough room to be retweeted or replied to.

ONE AVATAR & STICK WITH IT

BEFORE EACH TWEET, ASK: Who cares? Is it funny? Is it informative? Is this relevant to at least 10% of my followers?

Who cares?

Is it funny?

Is it informative?

Is this relevant to at least 10% of my followers?

DIVE IN HEAD FIRST YOU WON’T REALLY KNOW WHAT IT IS UNLESS YOU GO ALL IN (*prank)

USE DESKTOP CLIENT TweetDeck Seesmic

GO MOBILE iPhone Blackberry Txt/sms

TWITTER ECOSYSTEM Driven by the API (application programming interface)

EXAMPLES: Twitpic Bit.ly Twitterfeed Twitter Toilets

EZ $twitter = new Twitter("username", "password"); $status = " I'm giving a talk on Twitter “; $twitter->updateStatus($status); Google: twitterlibphp Libraries for almost every language* (*maybe)

NOT EZ Twitter API LIMITS: -1,000 updates/day -250 DMs/day -150 API calls/hour

SKY IS THE LIMIT WE ARE LITERALY SCRATCHING THE SURFACE OF TWITTER & TWITTER LIKE APPLICATIONS/FUNCTIONS

SUPER FRIENDLY & EASY TO WORK WITH Javascript & XML & ACTION SCRIPT & FLASH & С++ & C#/.NET & JAVA & Lasso & Objective-C/Cocoa & PERL & PHP & PL/SQL & Python & Ruby & Scala & Eiffel & T-SQL & Coldfusion

API CALLS SEARCH/NONSERCH 150 calls per user or per IP Use different accounts Web searches don’t count

150 calls per user or per IP

Use different accounts

Web searches don’t count

FOLLOWING/ FOLLOWERS 10% rule

DON’T GET BANNED

HARDEST PART OF DEVELOPMENT? Thinking of an idea that will energize you and others. Follow through: Executing, programming the idea. Filtering the thousands of ideas into a few useful/ROI ones.

Thinking of an idea that will energize you and others.

Follow through: Executing, programming the idea.

Filtering the thousands of ideas into a few useful/ROI ones.

EGO SURVING TwitterCounter.com Grader.Twitter.com

THE END Talk/Presentation By Andre TWITTER.COM/AN Questions/Answers/Folktales Time