This post is part 7 of the Big Juicy Twitter Guide. Don’t forget to follow Caroline on Twitter and check out Twitter Rockstar for a complete guide to dominating your niche with Twitter.
The early sections of this guide taught you how to grow your audience of Twitter followers because without an audience, you are just talking to yourself. But let me show you the hidden power of Twitter that so many people don’t get… You don’t actually need direct followers to have an audience! You can leverage other existing networks.
Publicize Your Twitter RSS Feed
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This post is part 6 of the Big Juicy Twitter Guide. Don’t forget to follow Caroline on Twitter and check out Twitter Rockstar for a complete guide to dominating your niche with Twitter.
On the surface Twitter seems so simple and yet there are a load of cool things you can do with it.
The reason you can do so much cool stuff with Twitter and the reason that so many mashups / hacks are coming out is that Twitter has an open API that allows developers to build apps around, much like Facebook. If you would like to learn more about it check out the Twitter API Help page. StartupSquad also has some good information about the Twitter API.
This post is part 5 of the Big Juicy Twitter Guide. Don’t forget to follow Caroline on Twitter and check out Twitter Rockstar for a complete guide to dominating your niche with Twitter.
This is the second half of the Twitter Tools section of the guide and this focuses on all the great web applications that work with Twitter. I have loosely categorised them but sometimes that can be somewhat subjective.
Productivity / Useful Apps
LoudTwitter – Publishes a daily post on your blog containing a digest of all your tweets of that day. See part 5 of the guide for more information about this.
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This post is part 4 of the Big Juicy Twitter Guide. Don’t forget to follow Caroline on Twitter and check out Twitter Rockstar for a complete guide to dominating your niche with Twitter.
The Twitter home page is rather limited and of course is only available via a browser. In this installment I first list tools specific to mobile devices, Windows based PC’s and Macs. I then have a list of Firefox plugins. The tools are listed alphabetically within each section, the ordering does not represent any kind of ranking.
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This post is part 3 of the Big Juicy Twitter Guide. Don’t forget to follow Caroline on Twitter and check out Twitter Rockstar for a complete guide to dominating your niche with Twitter.
Twitter Technicalities
140 Character Limit / Plain text Only
Twitter updates have a limit of 140 characters. This is to allow them to be easily sent over mobile SMS systems. Twitter has since been coined a ‘micro blogging’ platform due to this reliance on short updates. The updates have to be plain text. You cannot embed HTML or any kind of control codes. The only exception to this rule is links, which I mention below.
