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Twitoaster. Twitter's Spectacularly Awful 24 Hours - washingtonpost.com. 19 Reasons You Should Blog And Not Just Tweet. Unscientific observation: most bloggers use Twitter, but many Twitter users do not blog. Twitter is popular because it is easy. It is easy to setup, easy to copy-paste links into, and easy to write 140 character bits. But, having your own blog remains the strongest platform if you’re serious about sharing ideas and having a continued dialog with the world. Blogging is the antithesis of easy, however it is far more rewarding. Smart digital marketing professionals understand this. I’m not saying Twitter isn’t a useful and interesting service, because it certainly is.

Are you just using Twitter but not blogging? 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 140 characters is often more than necessary – but also it is often less than necessary. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. Don’t get me wrong, I do like Twitter. Further reading to help push your blogging to the next level: How To Successfully Integrate Blogging Into Your Busy Life A Path To Rapid Growth: Find Your Formula. 27 Twitter Tools To Help You Find And Manage Followers | 1stwebdesigner - Love In Design. This is my first Twitter related article, I am using Twitter a lot lately so it is really unforgivable not even have one article related to Twitter. Now I am starting to correct this mistake and here comes list with 27 Twitter tools, which will help You find more followers, manage them, find who doesn’t follow You back, who stops following, statistics and much, much more.

As Your first added follower on this list You should follow @1stwebdesigner, if You want design related tweet links. Besides the tools you definitely could use guide how to tweet and build your followers as well, right? Check out our only Twitter tweeting guide 2012 you will need for your success on Twitter! Follow these tips and reach the stars – it’s plain science not an art! 1.FriendOrFollow Who are you following that’s not following you back? 2. Find new followers based on Your inputted keyword. 3. 4. 5. Do not exist anymore because of Twitter own recommended follower engine. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.Twimailer 11.Your Twiter Karma. Seesmic DESKTOP.

BigTweet. Twellow :: Twitter Directory, Twitter Search, & Twitter Yellow Pages. Directors, Screenwriters and Actors on Twitter. Update: You can read a more updated version of this list here. In March, we published the first definitive listing of screenwriters, directors and actors on Twitter. But that posting quickly outgrew our original image-based format. With dozens of new additions per week, I thought we’d completely revamp the list.

Directors: Judd Apatow – 40 Year Old Virgin, Knocked Up, Funny PeopleEric Appel – FunnyorDie director: Gobstopper, Bacon’d! Screenwriters and Actors after the jump. Screenwriters: Producers:Frank Marshall – Indiana Jones, Back to the Future, E.T. And as always, you can find me at: /Film Contributors: Dave Chen, Devindra Hardawar, Adam Quigley, Hunter Stephenson, Brendon Connelly, Kevin Kelly, Steve Mason Listing Rules: I’ve tried to concentrate on working actors over celebrities (for example, I didn’t include Britney Spears).

So that the list doesn’t get too crowded, I’m only going to include actors, writers and directors that have had a major film released (with a few exceptions). Twitter for Libraries (and Librarians) FEATURE Twitter for Libraries (and Librarians) by Sarah Milstein For many people, the word “twitter” brings to mind birds rather than humans. But information professionals know that Twitter (www.twitter.com) is a fast-growing, free messaging service for people, and it’s one that libraries (and librarians) can make good use of—without spending much time or effort. Twitter lets people send and receive short messages (called Tweets) via the web or via SMS using a mobile phone. Messages on Twitter are limited to a maximum of 140 characters, including spaces, and they’re generally public.

Because each message is just a sentence or two, a carefully crafted post can convey a good deal of information without taking a lot of time to read or write. To automatically see what someone else is saying, you “follow” them. Thanks to the brevity of messages on Twitter, people often refer to the medium as “microblogging.” For example, a library could share all kinds of news that patrons want. Do YA Authors Twitter? Why yes, they do. Here is a list, updated from the one by Mitali Perkins, and thanks to Alessandra Lee for updating! Authors, check out Alessandra's post to add your name to the list.YA Authors: 1. Susan Adrian @susan_adrian 2. Jill S. Alexander @jillsalexander3. Tara Altebrando @TaraAltebrando4. Olugbemisola Amusashonubi-Perkovich @olugbemisola5.

Julie Isaac's TwitWall: The Top 10 Tips for Making the Most of #FollowFriday. Twitter Handbook for Teachers. iKnowTweet - Answer Twitter Questions. 30 Funny Twitter Comics. As you probably already know, Twitter is hotter than ever. Everyone seems to be tweeting these days about anything and everything that’s on their mind. If you’re still not into Twitter, check out our popular Ultimate Guide for Everything Twitter that we recently posted here. In this post, we’ll take a look at 30 Twitter comic strips that reflect on how the world is using and reacting to Twitter, the latest social media trend.

I’ve also added a funny video at the end of this post. Feel free to add links to more related comics in the comments section and if you like this article, why not tweet about it? :) First Issue Blog » Blog Archive » A Directory of Authors on Twitter. First Issue Blog » Blog Archive » A Directory of Book Trade People on Twitter. Twitpic - Share photos on Twitter. Mitali's fire escape: YA Authors On Twitter. FollowFridays.com | Twitter FollowFridays.

Top 100 Librarian Tweeters | Best Colleges Online. Posted on Thursday March 26, 2009 by Staff Writers Whether you work with a library, or just want to find out more about what’s going on in your community library, Twitter is a great place to stay updated on the latest developments. On Twitter, you’ll find librarians in schools, public libraries, and more, and even some working for organizations that have a lot to offer libraries. Read on, and you’ll find some of the best librarians on Twitter.

School & University Find out how librarians are making things work in schools from these librarians. @heyjudeonline: Judy O’Connell is the Head of Library and Information Services at St. Joseph’s College, Hunters Hill. Local & Public Libraries Check out librarians in community libraries to see how they run things. @RyanDeschamps: Ryan Deschamps is the e-Learning Services Manager at the Halifax Public Libraries. Other Libraries These librarians work in law, medical, and other libraries. @infobunny: @infobunny is a law librarian who blogs about Twitter apps.

EverythingTwitter. The Ultimate Guide for Everything Twitter. Twitter isn’t just a cute way for keeping in instant touch with friends on mobile phones anymore. It has ramped up quickly to be the search engine of choice for some with its human driven results. Applications galore allow you to find friends all over the world with similar interests and keep up with them in real time.

Businesses can form instant direct relationships with their customer bases simply by signing up and using the service regularly, and according to the models Twitter is trying out, they will soon be able to advertise to the Twitter community as well. It has grown into a behemoth that is hard to get your hands around, which is why we’ve put this article together for you. We’ve compiled an alphabetized glossary here for you so that you can just scan down the list and find the term that you are looking for, as well as a list of popular Twitter applications and instructions for incorporating Twitter into your website and blogs. Twitter Basics Then, set up your profile.

Profanity. WeFollow: A User Powered Twitter Directory. Delivering tweets by the dozen. Twtrfrnd, discover your common (shared) Twitter friends. Retweetist. Home.