My Quick Starter Guide to Twitter

I was writing an email to a friend who is trying to get ramped up to using Twitter effectively on a large scale, here is what I gave him to begin with:
 
Starter Articles: (this is more really helpful practical usage advice - Chris is the best I've found for this)
 
http://www.chrisbrogan.com/how-i-use-twitter-at-volume/
http://www.chrisbrogan.com/do-you-have-to-touch-every-conversation/
http://www.chrisbrogan.com/a-simple-presence-framework/
http://www.chrisbrogan.com/define-a-social-media-system-for-yourself/
http://www.chrisbrogan.com/19-presence-management-chores-you-could-do-every-day/
http://www.chrisbrogan.com/laying-out-your-online-experience/
http://www.chrisbrogan.com/you-are-always-on/
 
Tools:
 
Seesmic Desktop (like Tweetdeck but I like it better) http://seesmic.com
Hootsuite (Allows multiple people to use a single account, is web based so groups, etc setup are on any computer it is used on.) http://hootsuite.com
Tweepular (This is a tool that makes it easy to mass follow the people that are already following you, etc. Twitter does limit users to only 1000 follows a day) http://tweepular.com/
Socialtoo This site helps you setup auto follow and auto unfollowing preferences for the account. http://socialtoo.com
Radian6 (It is fantastic for workflow, listening and responding to the social web) http://radian6.com
 
What would you add or adjust?

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Posted 6 months ago

6 comments

Jul 31, 2009
John Snyder said...
I feel stupid, but I can't figure out how to write posts and post them like the one above. Do you write these posts somewhere else? What am I missing. I'm a posterous noob trying to figure this thing out. I understand the emailing for twitter, youtube, facebook, etc ,but not the normal post part. Thanks man.
Jul 31, 2009
Tony Steward said...
You just write it in email and send it to
Post@Posterous.com. Subject is title and message is body. For HTML just put the tags in and even though it is rich text Posterous reads it and does the right thing with it.
 
Is that what you meant?
Aug 01, 2009
Aug 01, 2009
Tony Steward said...
Nice! Thanks Brad. Great new article on Twitter Etiquette from @chrisbrogan
Aug 01, 2009
bobbychandler said...
Tony - I compiled a list of helpful Twitter resources a while back. Might be helpful for people getting started, or people who don't understand the usefulness of Twitter. http://tr.im/v4lm
Aug 01, 2009
John Snyder said...
Thanks Tony. That's exactly what I was looking for.

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