Twitter Friend Suggestion Tool
Today Twitter launched their very own suggestion tool. You can locate the suggestion tool in the “Find People” link in the top right hand corner.
Basically the tool suggests people for you to follow. It is unknown at this point what the algorithm is that it actually uses to help find people.
Try out the Twitter Suggestion Tool today.
How To Follow on Twitter
I just did a quick video Twitorial on how to find someone on Twitter based on a keyword and follow them. I take you start to finish on how to search for someone on Twitter and then follow them so they show up in your followers and in your Twitter time line.
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How To Twitter to Facebook
Do frequent Facebook? If not you should! It’s great place to re-connect with old high school and college friends as well as keep in touch with family.
You can instantly upload pictures, videos and whatever else your heart desires and you can share any of it with your Facebook “friends”. I’ve found really useful to keep in touch with my old high school friends whom I haven’t seen in nearly 10 years.
Now I can simply login to Facebook and see pictures and status updates from all of them whenever I want! Cool!
Here’s where the problem comes in, you and I already Twitter our status updates of what we are doing, and now Facebook asks you the exact same question…so rather than update your status in two places I’ve got a great way to post your Twitter updates to Facebook.
Here’s a quick and easy way to have your tweets update your Facebook status. Get the Twitter Application for Facebook.
Then follow these steps to get it configured.
- Read the application properties carefully and if you accept them click the “Allow” button.
- Enter your Twitter username and password
- Notice now you can send tweets right from within Facebook, but that’s not quite what we are trying to accomplish, so what we need to do is click the “Allow Twitter to Update Your Facebook Status” button.
- Click the allow status updates button.
- Your done, now every time you send a tweet to Twitter it will update your Facebook status.
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How To Update Twitter via Email
Twitter offers a lot of ways to update your status. Among them are through their website, instant messaging, SMS or text messages and finally through a BUNCH of desktop clients.
However some Twitter users would like to update their status simply by sending an email. Unfortunately Twitter doesn’t offer this at this time.
That’s where TwitterMail comes in. Here’s how it works.
You visit the TwitterMail website input your Twitter username and password and they will give you a SUPER secret email address. Then you send emails to that email address and TwitterMail will post it to Twitter for you!
Here’s some other great stuff TwitterMail can do:
Get your new @replies sent to your email – Receive an email with all your @replies
Send Messages longer than 140 Characters – Send a long message and TwitterMail will post the first 140 characters to Twitter and then include a “read more” link at the end to the FULL message hosted on the TwitterMail website.
Schedule Future Tweets – Schedule your tweets! Simply put the time you want the tweet to happen in the subject line and your tweet in the body and TwitterMail will take care of the rest.
If you are wanting to update Twitter via email give TwitterMail a shot today!
What Is Popular on Twitter?
Looking to find the “pulse” of Twitter?
Take a look at Twitturly. Twitturly is a site that tracks what URLs people are talking about in their tweets on Twitter.
It features a Digg like ranking system, in that when someone posts a URL it adds a vote to that links ranking. As more and more people tweet a link its ranking rises.
So if you are trying to find out the latest “hot” topics Twitturly is a great place to find out what everyone is talking about….RIGHT NOW.
Twitturly will show the 100 most popular links from Twitter from the past 24 hours.
Check out Twitturly today!
twittervision = cool
So today is Christmas Eve and it’s fun to watch all the tweets coming through from my Twitter friends about what they are doing for Christmas and what they are eating and EVEN what they are opening up as new gifts!
Here’s a really cool site that you can watch for literally HOURS. It’s called TwitterVision.
What TwitterVision is, is a real-time visualization of Twitter posts as they happen from around the globe.
TwitterVision shows you a map of the world and then places “tweets” on the map from the location of the Twitterer. It’s so addicting and really fun to watch, especially around the holidays.
Thanks TwitterVision, your site rocks!
P.S. – Check out the 3D view as well, super cool!
How To Reply on Twitter
Did you just see someone “tweet” a question or something that you would like to reply to?
Here’s how you can reply to that person right from your Twitter account.
When you are posting your tweet you can include the @ symbol, this signifies you wish to target this message at someone specific. You use @twitterusername in your tweet.
So if you wanted to reply to me you would send a message that goes something like this:
“Hey @ryanmcmillan I noticed that you set up a really neat resource for Twitter users, called Twitorials, Thanks!”
By using the @ symbol in front of a Twitter user name you are able to send what is called an “@reply” to that user. You can view the reply’s you have received in the graphic below:
Now depending on their settings, which I will get to in just a moment, this may or may not show up in that users timeline.
Here’s how you change change your “@reply” settings, so they perform like you want.
You can either have them all show up in your timeline, only @replys from the people you are following or none.
To change your @reply settings:
- Log in to Twitter
- Click Settings
- Click Notices
- Select the appropriate setting: all or nothing, or somewhere in between.
- Save your changes
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Custom Twitter Backgrounds
So by now I am SURE that you are following me on Twitter (@ryanmcmillan) and have seen some of the wacky stuff I tweet about…Snowblowing my driveway, baking cookies, watching Dora the Explorer…
Ok so maybe I’m not that wacky, but I’m just answering the question…What are you doing?
At any rate, you’ve probably seen my SUH-WEET custom Twitter background! It’s super simple to do this to yours and get rid of that ugly default background you have now.
Here’s how to do it:
- Grab your own Twitter Background from http://www.twitterbacks.com/
- Edit it in your favorite photo editor or try the free online editor Picnik to include a picture of yourself, related websites, etc.
- Login to your Twitter account then click on “Settings”, then click on the “Design” tab.
- Choose the “Change Background Image” and then browse to find your modified Twitter Background.
- Choose “Save Changes”
That’s it! You should now have your very own custom Twitter background. No problem right?
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How To Get A Twitter Account
Ok, so this is a super basic Twitorial, but it’s the first thing you need to do, before you can begin with Twitter.
It’s signing up for your own twitter account.
Watch the video below as I show you how to get your own Twitter account and post your very first tweet!
Now that you have your very own Twitter account you can follow me here -- @ryanmcmillan
What Is Twitter?
So, I thought that for my first official post on Twitorials.com I would post the infamous “Twitter in Plain English” video.
If you are just hearing about Twitter for the first time, this is a GREAT video that explains it all.
Thanks for visiting, look for great Twitter tutorials (twitorials) coming very soon!
