Date: 1 Nov 2008 Comments: 0

Today wraps up my twitter series. Over the past five days, we have discussed the following topics: Twitter – What is it?, How to Get Started and Use it, Definitions and Best Practices, txt Messages and Twitter, and Twitter Tools.

The goal of this post is to share a few other things one can do with twitter.

 

Facebook Status Updates:

So many people use http://www.facebook.com. It is a great social networking tool! I may blog on it at a later date. But what I see by so many people is that they login to Facebook and update their status messages. Why not have twitter do that for you? Over the past couple of days, I have hopefully showed how easy it is to use twitter.

So, how do I setup Facebook to use my twitter account?

1. Install the Twitter application in your Facebook account: Twitter App For Facebook.
2. There will be a link Want Twitter to update your Facebook status? Click here!

That’s all ya have to do. There may be a slight delay while getting it setup. Now, when you tweet, your status on Facebook is updated.

By the way, if you are not already my friend on facebook, feel free to add me now.

 

TwitPic

Huh? What is TwitPic? TwitPic lets you share photos on Twitter. It is easy to use.

1. Visit http://twitpic.com
2. Login with your twitter username and password.
3. Click on Upload Photo
4. Select a picture you wish to share and click upload.
5. Once the picture is uploaded, it will provide a place to write your Tweet and post it.

Here is an example: Last night during our Halloween get together, I used my iPhone (most of the applications have built in functionality to use TwitPic) to post some pictures.

http://twitpic.com/j8za – Here is the scariest thing you will see tonight! Any night for that matter!

Notice the URL that TwitPic generated when I upload my beautiful picture

 

Badges/ Widgets

If you have a blog, you may want to consider using this. It’s a neat way to let visitors to your blog know what you’re up to at the moment: Display your latest Twitters there with a customized badge (aka, "widget"). Visit http://twitter.com/badges to get started. You can see an example of this on my blog. If viewing this through email or rss, visit http://ChrisReeder.com and look on the right side at section called “What I’m Doing…”

 

TwitterCounter.com

While we are talking blogs, twittercounter.com allows you to display you twitter Follower Count? It is easy.

1. Visit http://twittercounter.com
2. Type you twitter username in the box next to “Check Twitter Account @
3. Click the Show button
4. This will show your follower counts. There is a link near the bottom right to allow the adding for a Counter preview with a link for “Add TwitterCounter to your site”.
5. This will provide html (code) you can copy and  paste into your blog’s widget or HTML.

 

FriendOrFollow.com

FriendOrFollow.com helps you manage your Twitter contacts. Submit your Twitter username to find out who you’re following that’s not following you back, and who’s following you that you’re not following back. It’s that easy.

 

TweetBeep.com

This is a really cool site. http://TweetBeep.com can send emails alerts of twitter conversations that mention you, your products, your company, your church, your city, your website, or anything else! And it is a FREE marketing tool.

 

QurlyQ.com or/and TinyUrl.com

Remember that twitter only allows posts of 140 characters or less. What if I want to share one of these websites with someone through twitter?

http://3.141592653589793238462643383279502884197169399375105820974944592.com/

or

http://www.thelongestdomainnameintheworldandthensomeandthensomemoreandmore.com/

Either of those sites would use most if not all of the characters. Use one of these two sites to shrink the urls.

http://qurlyq.com/1m

or

http://tinyurl.com/in0l

Way shorter!

 

Twubble

If you are new to twitter, this site is a must! Visit http://www.crazybob.org/twubble/ and find some friends. It searches your friends and picks out people who you may like to follow.

 

ESV Bible Daily

Simply follow http://twitter.com/esvdaily for a verse of the day.

 

Fox News

Follow http://twitter.com/foxnews for the latest news!

 

Daily Weather

Visit http://www.accuweather.com/twitter/ and select your city. Then follow the twitter user for daily weather updates.

 

PicoBuzz

http://picobuzz.com shows the “buzz words” on twitter. Interesting stuff! Amazing… I was expecting to see Chris Reeder up there with McCain and Obama.

 

Twitter Fan Wiki

http://twitter.pbwiki.com is one awesome site to find just about anything about twitter.

 

I know this is not a complete list, but it does show some really useful sites. If you have any other sites that you like to use, please leave a comment on this post so others can try them, as well.

I trust you learned something during this series on twitter. If you are not currently following me on twitter, please do at http://twitter.com/chrisreeder; and if you are not currently subscribed to this blog to get all the latest updates, please consider doing so by either email or rss.

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