TWITTER: @Sreenet's Twitter Guide for Newbies & Skeptics
Twitter Ideas: A work in progress by @sreenet
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MY SOCIAL-MEDIA GUIDE: http://bit.ly/sreesoc - tips, handouts, tools and more
MY WORKSHOPS: http://bit.ly/workshops - events around the country
MY SOCIAL MEDIA SYLLABUS: http://bit.ly/socmediaskills - a five-week course at Columbia Journalism School
This is meant to be a way to introduce Twitter to skeptics and newbies and is NOT comprehensive.
==>A big welcome to the TechCrunch readers who are here thanks to the mention in @vwadhwa’s piece on why Twitter is his only social-networking tool.
[Many thanks to @NatIves for putting me on Ad Age’s 25 media people to follow. Also, thank you to OnlineSchools for putting me on Top 100 Twitterers in Academia. Armed with these, I can… well, what, exactly?]
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Intros to Twitter:
See this collection of "10 Most Extraordinary Twitter Updates (if #5 doesn’t inspire you to use Twitter, perhaps this will)
Mashable’s collection of all things Twitter: twitter.mashable.com
Cyberjournalist’s Top 10 amazing, funny, useful Twitter links
100Twt.com: List of 100 most popular people on Twitter + their real-time tweets
OutlawDesignBlog: 30 essential Twitter tutorials for newbies & experts
Read lots of useful Twitter tips at Twitter_Tips
Listen to my Jan. 2009 webcast/podcast with terrific journos, "Twitter for Journalists: Everything You Wanted to Know About Twitter But Were Afraid to Ask" + see live coverage of my April 2009 workshop on "Twitter for Skeptics"
NYT’s love letter to Twitter, "Putting Twitter’s World To Use"
WSJ interview with Twitter founders (and backstory)
NY Magazine: The Twitter Approval Matrix (“Our deliberately oversimplified guide to whose tweets are worth following”)
David Carr explains why Twitter will endure | Vivek Wadhwa on why Twitter is the only socmedia tool he uses
"The Twitter Book" by Tim O’Reilly and Sarah Milstein
"Twitterville: How Businesses Can Thrive in the New Global Neighborhoods" by Shel Israel
BreakingNews: “Your most credible Twitter news source. First in online breaking news!”
BreakingTweets.com: “world news, Twitter-style; hyperlocal gone global”
Almost.at: “Following People at Real World Events in Real-Time”
GoogleNews: now on Twitter
CNNbrk: CNN’s breaking news account, originally created by a viewer
Reuters: Reuters on Twitter
DrudgeReport: yep, he’s here, too.
Understand Twitter trends with WhatTheTrend.com, which explains the sometimes cryptic items on search.twitter.com