Essential Twitter applications by Laura Wilson notes
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
- Twitter Search
- TwitPic
- SocialToo
- Twellow
- SocialOoomph Tweetlater
- Twitter Karma
- 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
