cheat sheet Overview Backgrounds • Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter • Free Twitter Designer http://www.freetwitterdesigner.com professional look • Everything you ever wanted to know about Twitter • http://www.curledesign.com/everything-you-ever- MyTweetSpace http://www.mytweetspace.com create wanted-to-know-about-twitter/ simple Twitter backgrounds • Themeleon http://www.colourlovers.com/themeleon Setup Account • Twilk http://twilk.com uses Follower avatars • http://www.twitter.com • TwitBacks http://www.twitbacks.com backgrounds • Create account • Twitter Backgrounds • Remember Twitter name twitter.com/ username http://www.twitterbackgrounds.com Twitter Desktop Clients • Twitter Backgrounds Gallery http://twitterbackgroundsgallery.com Manage your Twitter account from your desktop. • The Best Twitter Apps for Windows Widgets & Apps http://su.pr/1Ctv5I • Filetwt http://www.filetwt.com free file sharing • PeopleBrowsr http://my.peoplebrowsr.com like • Quitter http://www.getquitter.com tweet from CMD line TweetDeck but web app – no install • Snap Bird http://snapbird.org search for tweets beyond • Desktop http://desktop.seesmic.com Twitter Twitter’s 10-day archive and , multiple accounts • SocialOomph http://www.socialoomph.com • tdash http://tdash.org web-based, organizes your schedule tweets tweets and tweeps in logical groupings • Spreadtweet http://elliottkember.com/spreadtweet • TweetDeck http://tweetdeck.com lets you tweet, secretly tweet from Excel retweet, DM, shorten URLS, display all followers, DMs • etc. Mobile: http://www.tweetdeck.com/beta/iphone/ taweet http://taweet.com calendar & events promotion • • Twhirl http://www.twhirl.org tweet, RT, DM, shorten Tweetake http://tweetake.com backup your tweets, URLS, multiple accounts followers and direct messages • tweetalarm http://www.tweetalarm.com like Google Terminology alerts for Twitter – get notified based on keywords • Tweep or Twit : a Twitter user • tweetboard http://tweetboard.com/alpha/ conversation • Tweet : using Twitter to send text message widget for your website • Follower : a tweep who tracks your tweets • tweetbook http://www.tweetbook.in create a PDF diary of your tweets • Shorten URL : use a URL trimming site • tweetcall https://www.tweetcall.com phone in your • Re-Tweet or RT : resending another twit’s tweet tweet • DM : direct message in private to a specific twit • TweetMyPC http://tweetmypc.codeplex.com reboots • @ reply : sent to a specific tweep but visible to all your PC remotely • #: hash mark designating topic as in #genealogy • Twiddeo http://beta.twiddeo.com share videos • Avatar: your Twitter profile photo • Twilert http://www.twilert.com email alerts on tweets More terminology at Twittonary http://www.twittonary.com • twinslator http://www.twinslator.com translates tweets Be a Good Twitizen • Twitdom http://twitdom.com database of Twitter apps • TwitPic http://twitpic.com share photos • Don’t spam, don’t oversell or over-promote • twitres http://www.twitres.com/ share your resume • Be welcoming, friendly, listen • Twittercal http://twittercal.com connect your Twitter • Get rid of the ego – engage others account to your Google Calendar • Limit tweets and pause between tweets • twitterfeed http://twitterfeed.com tweet blog posts • Humor and snark in moderation • TwitterFon http://twitterfon.net iPhone app • Same tweet time – regularity builds followers • TwitterGroups http://twittgroups.com groups • Educate, inform – don’t lecture • Twitter Mail http://twittermail.com update from email • Retweet others especially new twits • Twuffer http://twuffer.com schedule tweets • Be human, be you Mobile Apps for Twitter Analytics and Reputation Tracking • The Best Twitter Apps for Your Phone Keep tabs on your standing in the Twitterverse: http://www.labnol.org/internet/best-twitter-mobile- • Klout http://klout.com Twitter analytics rating apps/12129/ • Monitter http://monitter.com monitor keywords • Twizzle http://twizzleapp.com/ iPhone app • Qwitter http://useqwitter.com see who has stopped following you Who to Follow, Tweet Topics, Companies • Retweetist http://retweetist.com most retweeted tweeps • flocking.me http://www.flocking.me/ follow friends • Tweeple Rank http://www.tweeplerank.com the best • foller.me http://foller.me who to follow and not follow people on Twitter to follow • Mr. Tweet http://mrtweet.net find the people your • Tweepler http://tweepler.com a more intuitive way of followers are following processing your Twitter followers • My Tweeple http://mytweeple.com easy to use • tweetbeep http://tweetbeep.com “like Google Alerts for dashboard for who you follow, who follows you etc Twitter” • Nearby Tweets http://nearbytweets.com a geography– • Tweet Buzzer http://www.tweetbuzzer.com top tweeted centric social tool for networking brands • Top Twits http://twitterati.alltop.com AllTop list of top • TweetStats http://tweetstats.com graphs your Twitter Twitter users stats • TweepSearch http://tweepsearch.com search profiles • Tweetworks http://www.tweetworks.com sorts Twitter on Twitter by name or keyword users into groups and discussions • Twellow http://www.twellow.com yellow pages for • Twilert http://www.twilert.com receive alerts via email Twitter for any keyword or phrase • Twibs http://www.twibs.com/index.php companies by • Twinfluence http://twinfluence.com measure Twitter most followers – remember to add your company! influence, top 50 influencers in each category • Twitter Local http://www.twitterlocal.net top tweets by • Twitority http://twitority.com authority based on Twitter city and RSS feed search • Twitter Karma http://dossy.org/twitter/karma shows • Twitscoop http://www.twitscoop.com what’s hot on who you follow but doesn’t follow you and vice versa Twitter right now • Twitter Packs http://twitterpacks.pbwiki.com wiki of • Twitter Analyzer http://www.twitteranalyzer.com twits by topic interesting data - similar to Google Analytics • Twubble http://crazybob.org/twubble expand your • TwitterCounter http://twittercounter.com display Twitter bubble followers; compare two twits in terms of followers • WhoShouldIFollow http://whoshouldifollow.com • TwitterFriends http://twitter-friends.com analyzes suggestions based on keyword and network conversations and assigns a “conversation quotient” Hash Tags • Twitter Grader http://twitter.grader.com • twitt(url)y http://twitturly.com tracks urls that tweeps are • #hashtag http://hashtags.org track the popularity of a tweeting about – sort of like TechMeme or hash tag and see recent tweets using that tag as well as for Twitter photos and even videos • twopular http://twopular.com trends on Twitter • Omnee http://omnee.thebubblejungle.com dynamic Twitter directory based on your hash tags Genealogy-Related Links • Twitter Groups http://twittgroups.com/index.php set up • Genealogists Who Twitter group based on hash tag http://www.genealogywise.com/group/geneologistswhot • we follow http://wefollow.com view popular tags, the witter most popular people on Twitter by tag usage. Follow • Genealogy Companies and People on Twitter @wefollow to have your own tag usage tracked http://www.geneabloggers.com/geneapedia/index.php?ti • what the ?! http://wthashtag.com determine tle=Twitter#Genealogy_Companies_and_People_on_T the meaning of a hash tag witter Lists

• tweepml http://tweepml.org/ create and share Twitter groups copyright 2010 by Thomas MacEntee, GeneaBloggers.com • Twitter Lists 2 RSS http://twiterlist2rss.appspot.com/ convert Twitter lists to RSS feeds