A guide to Twitter Tools & Jargon

NICK HALSTEAD Founder & CEO @nickhalstead http://tweetmeme.com

JARGON

Twitosphere The total community of Twitterers.

Tweeple Twitter people, Twitter members, Twitter users

Tweet’s noun: A message sent on twitter. verb: The act of posting to twitter. Where do they go??? API

DIRECT MESSAGE DM or A personal message to you that only you and the sender can see. You can only DM those that are following you.

Timeline A collection of Tweets, usually belonging to one user, in chronological order.

ReTweet RT or Repeating the content of another twitter users Tweet

ReTweet RTor A new currency?

Twitterati The glamorous A-List Twitterers everyone wants to follow.

#hashtags A hashtag # is used to tag tweets with a theme or event, e.g. #iranelection

Follow Friday A #hashtag used to tell your followers about other followers worth following. (done every Friday.)

THE ESSENTIALS

http://twitterfeed.com

RSS to twitter conversion http://twitterfeed.com

WHY? •Push your current RSS feed into Twitter •Analytics http://twitterfeed.com

Cotweet CRM for Twitter http://cotweet.com

Cotweet WHY? •Manage multiple Twitter accounts •Assign tweets to team members •Track keywords •(in Beta) http://cotweet.com

twitpic Image Storage http://twitpic.com

User Polls Ask online questions and get instant answers http://polldaddy.com/

Mr Tweet Who to follower? http://mrtweet.com

Backgrounds http://www.twitterbackgrounds.com/

CLIENTS

Clients Only 23% of tweets come via the web

TweetDeck + http://tweetdeck.com

TwitterBerry http://www.orangatame.com/products/ twitterberry/

TweetTabs Who to follower? http://tweettabs.com

Other options •Too many to mention!

SEARCH

Twitter Search http://search.twitter.com

Deep Link Search http://oneriot.com http://search.tweetmeme.com http://topsy.com http://scoopler.com

ANALYTICS

Twitter Grader How good is my twittering? http://twitter.grader.com/

Twitalyzer Tweet Analysis http://twitalyzer.com

TweetStats Data on Twitter user tweeting behaviour http://tweetstats.com

FOLLOWERS

TwitterCounter How many followers do I have? http:// twittercounter.com

TwitterCounter http:// twittercounter.com

FriendOrFollow Who is following me? http://friendorfollow.com

Qwitter Why did you unfollow me? http://useqwitter.com/

TRENDS

TwitScoop The Buzz right now http://twitscoop.com

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A guide to Twitter Tools & Jargon

by Nick Halstead on Jun 24, 2009

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