About Twitter
Twitter Guide Book
You've heard about Twitter, you've set up an account but how do you move on from there? Mashable have put together a complete guide book to help you with all the answers.
Seven tips for building your Professional Learning Network on Twitter
Who's using Twitter?
Summary of the Pew Internet Survey Report (2010)
Twitter Tools
Twitter
The Twitter base site. This is very basic. You will find it more useful to manage your use of Twitter through one of the management tools below.
Tweetdeck
An easy to manage dashboard for using Twitter. This is one of the most popular tools to manage Twitter on your computer.
Hootsuite
Another web-based Twitter management tool. It's quite sofisticated and includes multiple accounts, delayed posts.
Twirl
One of the early Twitter tools, Twirl is a simple management tool for your Twitter account.
Hashtags #
The use of hashtags # is evolving. They were initially used to pull tweets together for easy organisation and have evolved to represent conferences, ideas, groups - any subject.
We Follow
Top Twitter users, categories, interest groups. Find out who follows a particular tag. @wefollow
Follow Friday
Have you seen a tweet including #FollowFriday (or #ff shortened) and a list of user names preceded by the @ symbol? Use this to recommend your favorite tweeps (twitter people) to your followers. This site counts all of these recommendations and computes a ranking of the most recommended Twitter users. @followfridaycom
Twtpoll
Survey tool for Twitter.
Search Twitter
Search in real time. Build your network by finding people with similar interests, check their profile, and follow them if you wish.
Summarizr
This service will create a brief summary of a TwapperKeeper tweet archive. It works for #hashtag archives, keyword archives and @person archives. Just enter a hashtag, keyword, Twitter account name or archive URL.
Twime Machine
Use TwimeMachine to easily browse through your old tweets. Use it to see what you have tweeted or search for others.
DataSift
Revolutionary curation and data mining platform, designed to aggregate the real-time web, to provide consumers and businesses with insight into data on platforms such as Twitter, Facebook etc. Cost per transaction. Useful business tool.
Top Twitter Apps
Comprehensive list of apps and tools to use with Twitter from social media expert Jane Hart.
Some extra places to explore when you have time to play:
11 Twitter and social media tools to try in 2011
5 useful tools to track Twitter unfollowers (2010)
5 Twitter visualisation tools (2010) also 8 Twitter visualisation tools (2011)
10 free and fun bird icons for your website (2010)
20 top sites to improve your Twitter experience (2010)
How to launch a successful Twitter contest (2010)
Twitter training wheels - Twitter etiquette for beginners
10 Twitter safety tips to protect your account and identity (2011)
