This collection of slides is an overview of the most popular, as well as the most useful, Twitter applications. It begins by outlining some of the many tools available to enrich your Twitter experience such as mobile phone apps, desktop programs, and web-based extensions. It then moves on to explain best practice when expanding the list of people you follow, as well as getting others to follow you. Finally, there is an over view of the "Twang" (Twitter's foreign language) that you will in counter. #awesome!

1. Twitter: Tools, Tweeple and
Twang
by Doug Devitre, CRS, ABR, CDEI
Sp on so re d by:
De a n H a rt m a n C on ti nen ta l H ome Lo a n s

3. Twitter is a foreign
language

4. Today’s Learning Objectives
•Learn what is necessary to create a Twitter
Profile.
•Understand the various tools available for
Twitter users.
•Follow people and get people to follow you.
•Speak the Twitter language.

5. Top-Ten Twitter Tools

6. TweetDeck

7. www.t witpic.com

8. www.t wit vid.com

9. search.t witter.com

10. www.geochirp.com

11. www.t weetmeme.com

12. Twitter Background
Customization

13. www.t witterfeed.com

14. www.t wellow.com

15. Cloudlet for Firefox

16. www.t weetbeep.com

17. Get People to Follow You

18. Five Ways to Get More
Followers
Advertise Profile URL
Participate in TweetUps
Share Valuable Content
Tweet Often
Follow Others

19. Advertise profile URL
Profile URL = http://www.twitter.com/username
Add this to:
Email Signature
Facebook Profile
Website or Blog
Linked In Account
Marketing

20. Participate in TweetUps

21. Share Valuable Content

22. Tweet Often

23. Follow Others

24. Five ways to Find People to
Follow
Prospect on search.twitter.com
Ask people for their twitter handle
Follow your friends.
Search for people of influence
Keep an eye out for the ‘Follow Me’ button

25. Prospect on
search.t witter.com

26. Ask People for Their Twitter
Handle

27. Follow Your Friends

28. Search for People of
Influence

29. Look for the ‘Follow Me’
Button

30. TWANG
URL Shortener
RT Retweet
# Hashtag
@ Mention
d Direct Message
‘Post’
Twitter RSS Feed

31. URL Shortener

32. Ret weet (RT)
Repost a post someone else’s post and give them
credit.
Just type “RT @firstposter” before quoting.
Joe: Happy New Years Everyone!
Steve: RT @Joe Happy New Years Everyone!

33. Hashtags (#)

34. Mention (@)
Append @username when your post is related to
a specific person.
Example: “@stevesmith did a great job in his
presentation today!”

35. Direct Message (d)
Private message to a single twitter user.
Example: “d stevesmith How have you been?”

36. Post

37. Twitter RSS Feed

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