Useful Twitter Tips For Newbs

Twitter, Twitter, Twitter! Almost everywhere you go, you will see the word Twitter on peoples blogs or web sites. Twitter has no doubt taken the virtual world by storm! Hence if you haven't jumped on to this Twitter bandwagon, it's not ever too late to leap now! As probably this could be something new for you and it's also why you end up reading my article now : ) we'll take a few minutes and see what a Twitter newb can do on his / her first day with Twitter! Do take note that Twitter and PPC are 2 different elements in Internet marketing.

To share links, shorten URLs

Alright, some of the webpages could have long URLs and you will be wondering, how the hell can I squeeze those urls on a micro-blogging system that only allows One hundred and forty characters ?! Fret no more. There are plenty of free tools to shrink or shorten the URLs so you can tweet it within the limited characters authorized. The popular ones are bit.ly, is.gd, tiny.cc, ow.ly

To respond, use sign

So, if you'd like to make a answer to someone on twitter or send a message to that person in public and you don't mind others knowing what you write for him / her, don't forget to put in front of the person's Twitter username. For instance username, meet you tonight!

To direct message, use DM

If you want to send a private message to Twitter users, you can find this DM function in your Twitter control panel. Nevertheless do bear in mind that you can only direct message Twitter users who are following you only.

To retweet, put RT

Occasionally you find that certain tweets by other users are worth sharing. So, you intend to share it with your list of fans. It is best if you can retweet the original tweets and give credit back to the first user. Just put RT user name before you post it yourself.

To share photos, use TwitPic

Web 2.0 is all about sharing. Therefore, if you want to share photos thru Twitter, you can choose to use TwitPic, the most well liked image sharing services on Twitter. Go to twitpic.com and sign in with your Twitter username and password. There are other Twitter image sharing services too. Those outstanding ones are TweetPhoto ( tweetphoto.com ), Twitgoo ( twitgoo.com ) and Picktor ( picktor.com ).

To categorize your tweets, use hashtag

When you would like to make a group or special keywords, you can use. As an example, Obama will make a group that specifically mentions Obama. Therefore, when you run a search on Twitter on Obama, it can easily track all of the conversations or tweets on that topic.

I hope the article manages to help all of you get a glimpse regarding how to use Twitter.