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Twitter Tips in 140 Characters or More

I was just surfing on Amazon and decided to see what books were surfacing on the topic of Twitter.

While Twitter is mentioned in many book about the broad category of social media - there are a few new books specifically written about Twitter - including a few that are available for Pre-Order.

Here are those books with Twitter in the title (not including books about birds…) arranged in order of how they’ve been selling (including pre-sales of books yet to come out - I’ve noted those that are yet to be released):

Twitter Revolution: How Social Media and Mobile Marketing is Changing the Way We Do Business & Market Online (November 2008 - pictured right)
Twitter means business: how microblogging can help or hurt your company (November 2008)

Find the Best Twitter iPhone Client for Your NeedsToday

Got an iPhone and want to know what apps are available for your to use it to get on Twitter? In this post Joe Meenen from Cute Machine (follow him at @cutemachine) explores your options.

If you searched through the App Store lately you should have noticed that there is a diverse selection of Twitter clients to choose from. That is no wonder, as the App Store now holds over 13,000 applications. Twitter clients come with different flavours and philosophies. To declare any one as the king of the iPhone twittersphere would be to presumptuous. Nevertheless, in the list below you might find the perfect tool for your Twitter needs. Here is every list item under 140 characters for better readability for us tweeples.

Twittelator - (Free) Good groups concept for viewing different timelines. Twittelator Pro (4,99) with many more features.
Summizer - (2,99) Advanced search capabilities. Configure search terms and then get the results in the future with just one tap.
Tweetie - (2,99) Huge feature set. Recommended by John Gruber from Daring Fireball fame.

TwitterFriends - A Useful Twitter Metrics ToolYesterday

Over the last couple of days I’ve been playing around with a great Twitter statistics tool called Twitter Friends.

It’s a tool that gives you a stack of interesting information on your use of Twitter (or any Twitter user for that matter.

Here are a few statistics that it gives on my use of Twitter. This one shows who I reply to and who replies to me.

There are also ‘tag cloud’ like stats of who you reply to and who replies to you like this:

This one breaks down a lot of different stats:

As you can see the stats go beyond the basics that many Twitter statistics packages show. It gives information on how many people you interact with (and interact with you), the ’stickiness’ of your friends (how many reply to you more than once), how many links you share and a lot more.

Stats are given for both you and the average over other Twitter users.

They put together what they call your ‘conversation quotient’ (an attempt to measure how rela

8 Sure-Fire Ways To Tick Off the TwitterverseYesterday

When you’re starting out with Twitter it is easy to make mistakes and put potential followers off-side. In this post Jenny Cromie (follow her at @JennyCromie) explores 8 ways to tick off other Twitter users.

Image by ohhector

Have you ever been to a social networking event and watched someone make a complete fool out of themselves? It’s like watching a car wreck in slow motion. Or like listening to a violinist who doesn’t know the difference between an A flat and and A sharp. It’s painful.

The whole point of a social networking event is to get to know people and build relationships. But if you don’t have a handle on the right social graces, you’ll make the wrong kind of lasting impression.

To the uninitiated, Twitter may seem like a collection of random conversations and annoying mini marketing campaigns. But the Twitterverse is really a big community that you build up around you. And as with most communities, there are certain rules—spoken and unspoken. There’s etiquette on Twitter—or as I like to call it—Twittiquette.

People new to the Twitterverse can’t help it if they make a few social gaffes now and then. Bec

How to Stop Twitter Becoming a Waste of TimeJanuary 7

“Twitter is a Waste of Time” - it is a criticism that has been leveled at Twitter many times over and while I’m one of Twitters biggest fans I’m also in agreement that Twitter can be a compete waste of time. I’ve wasted time on Twitter and I’ve seen many others do it. In fact recently when I asked my followers about the topic I found that most people could relate to the idea of wasting time on Twitter.

So how do you stop yourself from letting Twitter become a waste of time?

Below are a few of my own tips on the topic - interspersed with a few tips and comments from my own followers on Twitter.

1. Know Why You’re Using Twitter

If you don’t know why you’re using Twitter it is highly likely that you’ll either not use it beyond your first day or two or you’ll use it in such an unfocused way that you’ll end up wasting time with the medium.

Set aside a few minutes to think about your goals and objectives for using Twitter. You don’t need to over think it but identifying what you want to achieve helps you to be much more effective as a Twitter User.

@timbursch - “Have a purpose for being here and tweetin