Part Time Webmaster Blog

I don’t know if you saw the last post with my notes on Twitter. But, if you haven’t check it out. Essentially, if you follow the notes written, you’ll get at least one new Twitter follower a day. Not bad.

I signed up for the free webinars by Laura Wilson and to say the least, I’m greatly impressed. Below you will find my notes on what I learned from 1 webinar. Pretty cool. To sign up for her webinar, go here for the Essential Twitter Guide free sign up page.

Notes:
7 Tools and applications
140 characters of text for each text
TwitPick – allows you to post pictures to your account
Tweet – Status update
followers – Who’s following you
Following – who’s following your tweets
Friends – reciprical followers
DM’s – direct message to one of your friends
Lists are twitter groups
Twitstream – your Twitter home page.
retweet – when someone retweets your tweet. This is an excellent thing.

7 applications and tools

1. Twitter Search
2. TwitPic
3. SocialToo
4. Twellow
5. SocialOoomph Tweetlater
6. Twitter Karma
7. Tweet Adder Software

Twitter Search

www.search.twitter.com

Trends, Market Research, find specific people and info, live topic updates

Easily research different topics, information is up to the minute

Putting search phrases in quotes is like an exact phrase search, like googles

TwitPic

allows you to upload photos even by phone through email address

SocialToo

Autofollow people follow people that follow you. If you don’t follow people then naturally, they will unfollow you. You can also create surveys to ask your followers questions.

When you set up an account, go into the settings and make sure you autofollow others

Reminder, go into SocialToo and set up a social survey

Twellow

Yellow pages of twitter, like yellow pages, like twitter search except you can find people by characteristics

Will also suggest users for me.

Allows you to find information on your followers as well.

SocialOomph

Formerly Tweetlater

Send new followers an automated DM

Schedule tweets at a later time/date. Like Twuffer. This is an excellent way to construct Tweets to go out at all times of the day from now until the end of time. Have to do it one at a time though.

Twitter Karma

Bulk Follow, bulk unfollow, tidy up your twitter account, useful for mass follow techniques, see your friends, following an followers

Tweet Adder Software

Follow people by keywords in tweets, autofollow 250 people for free, set up recurring tweets. Better than Twollow