Twitter for Dummies, Pocket ed

Introduction

About This Book  

New for Pocket Edition

Foolish Assumptions  

Icons Used in This Book

Hello, Twitter World

· Figuring Out This Twitter Thing  

· Signing Up

· Picking a Name

· Finding Contacts

· Using useful people-finding tools

· Searching by using Twitter Search

· Inviting Contacts

· Tweeting Like a Pro

· Saying Hello! Your First Tweets

Getting Your Tweet Wet

· Finding People to Follow  

· Look who's talking  

· Searching for people

· Using the Search Box

· Inviting people personally, through Twitter

· Checking out Twitter Lists  

· Following back  

· Following People

· Replying to Tweets

· Retweeting  

· Retweeting the old-fashioned way

· Commentary on the retweet  

· Twitter Directories  

· Understanding Twitter Protocol

· Deciphering language and abbreviations

· Engaging others on Twitter  

· Tweeting frequency  

· Creating Lists  

· Following lists

· Using geolocation

· Erasing your tracks

· Deciphering Twitter SMS Commands

· Sending a direct message

· Sending a follow message  

· Sending an @reply

· Using On/Off commands

· Making a tweet a favorite

· Seeing stats  

· Using the Get command

· Seeing profiles with Whois

· Using Leave  

· Using On/Off username

· Using Quit and Stop  

· Codes may come, and codes may go

Flying Around the Interface

· Starting Out on the Home Screen  

· The sidebar

· The Tweet box

· The Twitter stream

· Tweeting to One Specific Person: @Replies  

· Sending Private Notes via Direct Messaging

· Playing (Twitter) Favorites  

· Seeing Who You Follow  

· Who's Following Who?  

· Reviewing Your Tweets

· You've Been Listed  

· The User Multi-Face: Interacting with Twitter Every Which Way

· Text messages (SMS delivery)  

· Desktop clients  

· Echofon  

· Widgets and gadgets

· Preview: @Anywhere  

Twitter Minus Twitter.com

· Tweeting with Your Cellphone  

· Via text messaging  

· Via smartphones or PDAs

· Location! Location! Location!

· Using Twitter through Your E-Mail  

· Swimming Your Stream with RSS Feeds

· Grabbing RSS feeds

· Sending RSS feeds back to Twitter

Establishing Your Twitter Voice

· Business or Pleasure?

· Your business on Twitter

· You as you on Twitter

· Mixing business with pleasure  

· Identifying Your Audience  

· Viewing your network  

· Diversifying your network

· Targeting specific networks

· Measuring influence  

· Understanding your extended network

· Keeping Your Tweets Authentic  

· Joining the conversation  

· Sharing links  

· Image is everything

· Being genuine

· Evangelizing your causes

· Keeping Twitter Personal but Not Too Personal

· Protecting personal details  

· Maximizing privacy and safety

Ten Useful Twitter-Based Services

· BreakingNews  

· StockTwits

· Tweecious: Use Delicious to Organize the Links You Tweet

· Tweetworks  

· ExecTweets  

· TweetGrid  

· LinkBunch

· Tweetree

· TwitterGrader

· BLIP.fm