Twitter – The Social Media Revolution that you can not ignore Created By: Tariq Rishi Covers Brief History and Basics of Twitter Email: tariqrishi@gmail.com Date: April 28, 2009

Contents History How it works Third Party Utilities Five Basic Uses Guidelines to Use Twitter

History

How it works

Third Party Utilities

Five Basic Uses

Guidelines to Use Twitter

History Created in March 2006 by three young entrepreneurs Jack Dorsey, Biz Stone and Evan Williams in San Francisco (USA). The company was made public in July 2006 but it was in 2008 where Twitter got the real public attention During the month of March 09, Google counted about 65,000 news stories mentioning Twitter Web tracking service Alexa reported a remarkable 400% increase in traffic to Twitter.com in the last four months.

Created in March 2006 by three young entrepreneurs Jack Dorsey, Biz Stone and Evan Williams in San Francisco (USA).

The company was made public in July 2006 but it was in 2008 where Twitter got the real public attention

During the month of March 09, Google counted about 65,000 news stories mentioning Twitter

Web tracking service Alexa reported a remarkable 400% increase in traffic to Twitter.com in the last four months.

How it Works Twitter is a pubic social media microblogging and messaging service but your tweets (the small message you write) must be limited to 140 characters Before creating an account run a 20 Minutes tutorial http://www.viddler.com/explore/goldiekatsu/videos/58 /

Twitter is a pubic social media microblogging and messaging service but your tweets (the small message you write) must be limited to 140 characters

Before creating an account run a 20 Minutes tutorial http://www.viddler.com/explore/goldiekatsu/videos/58 /

How it Works In order to use Twitter one must first understand the concept of FOLLOWING and FOLLOWERS You can search the specific interest group and select any member and start following those people. You can use “Find People” option to locate the person. No permission required from other party to follow them The biggest directory of Twitter users is available at www.wefollow.com . It lists and ranks users in different interest groups based on number of followers. You can also choose users from this directory and start following here as well. This will become your following

In order to use Twitter one must first understand the concept of FOLLOWING and FOLLOWERS

You can search the specific interest group and select any member and start following those people. You can use “Find People” option to locate the person. No permission required from other party to follow them

The biggest directory of Twitter users is available at www.wefollow.com . It lists and ranks users in different interest groups based on number of followers. You can also choose users from this directory and start following here as well. This will become your following

www.wefollow.com

Third Party Clients TweetDeck is a client that is really helpful in managing your Twitter Account

Search for Favorite Topics TwitScoop is part of TweetDeck which gives real time hot topics of discussions on twitter Another interesting search engine is www.monitter.com where you can put any topic which you like to follow and all real time tweets will start coming on your screen. You can then start tweeting and make positive contributions of your interest and people will start following you. These will be called your followers

TwitScoop is part of TweetDeck which gives real time hot topics of discussions on twitter

Another interesting search engine is www.monitter.com where you can put any topic which you like to follow and all real time tweets will start coming on your screen.

You can then start tweeting and make positive contributions of your interest and people will start following you. These will be called your followers

Home Page of Twitter

Basic Terminology of Twitter @ <username> This message will go to specific person but any one can search and see it DM <username> is a private 1:1 communication over Twitter What are you doing.. This is where you put your short message of 140 characters # hash tags are used while writing your tweets to increase your chances of getting search Tinyurl – Since when people put some news and announcements, links are also provided. All long URLs are converted into Tiny URLs. Use http://cli.gs service to create analytical links

@ <username> This message will go to specific person but any one can search and see it

DM <username> is a private 1:1 communication over Twitter

What are you doing.. This is where you put your short message of 140 characters

# hash tags are used while writing your tweets to increase your chances of getting search

Tinyurl – Since when people put some news and announcements, links are also provided. All long URLs are converted into Tiny URLs. Use http://cli.gs service to create analytical links

Twitter Can be Used in Five Different Ways An Educational Resource to find references A Networking Resource where you communicate with people of same industry Keep in Touch with Clients, Others and customer feedback Get Notified of Breaking News, Business News, Deals, Job Offers Keep in Touch with Companies, Celebrities, Sportsmen, News Makers

An Educational Resource to find references

A Networking Resource where you communicate with people of same industry

Keep in Touch with Clients, Others and customer feedback

Get Notified of Breaking News, Business News, Deals, Job Offers

Keep in Touch with Companies, Celebrities, Sportsmen, News Makers

Guidelines For Use of Twitter Always put your picture in your profile as people want to know with whom they are talking Make sure your PROTECT YOUR UPDATE is unchecked in Twitter Settings otherwise you cannot micro blog publicly. You may find some people making Tweets every 3-4 minutes and that may be annoying . In general one should limit his Tweets around 10 to 12 times per session and should have time interval of 5-10 minutes between each tweet. In order to cover different time zones around the globe make it a point that you tweet twice morning and evening. You can schedule your tweets using tweetlater.com service

Always put your picture in your profile as people want to know with whom they are talking

Make sure your PROTECT YOUR UPDATE is unchecked in Twitter Settings otherwise you cannot micro blog publicly.

You may find some people making Tweets every 3-4 minutes and that may be annoying . In general one should limit his Tweets around 10 to 12 times per session and should have time interval of 5-10 minutes between each tweet.

In order to cover different time zones around the globe make it a point that you tweet twice morning and evening. You can schedule your tweets using tweetlater.com service

Guidelines For Use of Twitter Be careful before writing negative comments or complaints about any company or person. It may bite back and hard for you to defend if you are not stating facts. Your followers are not interested to your every day routine like you are going in a meeting or going for a walk. Please avoid these kind of Tweets. Create two Twitter accounts. One to share your personal ideas and schedules with your friends and families and second for your busy views and discussions.

Be careful before writing negative comments or complaints about any company or person. It may bite back and hard for you to defend if you are not stating facts.

Your followers are not interested to your every day routine like you are going in a meeting or going for a walk. Please avoid these kind of Tweets.

Create two Twitter accounts. One to share your personal ideas and schedules with your friends and families and second for your busy views and discussions.

HAPPY TWEETING