Speedlinking - Twittermania
After initially resisting the wave of people signing up with twitter, I recently took the plunge and now understand why so many people have been talking about it.
Once I signed up, one of the first things that I did (after following quite a few familiar faces - it felt like I was the last person to sign up for twitter) was to send out a tweet asking for dads/husbands that wanted to be a part of The Ultimate List of Twitter Dads and Husbands.
In all of the excitement to learn more about twitter, I’ve also come across a handful of outstanding resources discussing the benefits of twitter and/or different things you should (or should not) do with twitter.
1. Nathania Johnson shared three ways to maximize your twitter time for networking, marketing and fun over at CopyBlogger. Since I am completely out of touch with the current times, I have to pay per text message and thus have not integrated my phone with twitter but I do believe the other two suggestions are essential to maximize your twitter time.
2. Over at Remarkablogger, AJ Vaynerchuk discusses 8 mistakes that bloggers make while using twitter. This is a great checklist to keep handy when you are getting started with twitter or even if you have been using it for awhile now. I’m still working my way through the list to avoid making these mistakes and highly recommend you do the same.
3. Chris Brogan, who I am looking forward to meeting at SOBCon in a few weeks, had a guest post at ProBlogger covering how to use twitter to promote your blog - or at least how he is using twitter to promote his blog. I’ve used twitterfeed to announce new blog posts but might have to change to the method that Chris mentions, as it seems much more community friendly.
4. Being a huge fan of the show The Big Idea with Donny Deutsch, I always look forward to when he has The Elevator Pitch segment. As mentioned on Read Write Web, the elevator pitch has hit twitter and is known as the twitpitch. This is a really interesting idea and just scratches the surface of what we will likely see on twitter in the very near future.
5. Gary Jones recently explored the possibilities with twitter application development and released the Magic 8 Ball application. We’ll see how accurate the Magic 8 Ball is as I asked it if Gary would comment on this post and the answer was…no! 
While twitter has the potential to become very time consuming, hopefully the posts above have provided some insight on how you can get the most from the time you do spend tweeting. And if you are using twitter, be sure to…
Thanks for the link love
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Hi Derek,
Thanks for this post. Twitter is still a bit of a mystery to me, so I really appreciate the links above.
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I haven’t used Twitter that much yet.
Well, following you now. =)
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Been thinking about using Twitter, but I’m kinda conservative about new stuff. Usually never use anything unless I’m forced to.
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Derek, frankly, I am scared. I got so involved with a couple of social networks that my life became unmanageable. I simply do not want to get involved.
I’ve heard a lot about twitter but never really got into using it. Maybe I’ll give it a second look.
Twitter is confusing to me, i heard how wonderful it was and i heard how easy it is to get carried away by it and not realize how much of your time it can consume. So that is a useful post for me; perhaps i shall now not be so confused
This may help guys: Twitter FAQ
Getting on that list of Twitter dads and husbands sounds like fun.
The main gripe I have with Twitter is the time difference I’m facing as I’m living half way across the globe from most (if not all) people that I’m following.
I have been using twitter for a few weeks now and I think it is great. I never found that FAQ page though which was really useful, I found out some new things i can try with my blog that I have never thought to use before
thanks
Twitter is something I have stayed away from too. Think its high time I give it a shot. Will check out the links you have provided. They sound interesting.
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I’ve never heard of twitter until now, but I just checked it out and that is an interesting idea. All it is is answering the question, “What are you doing now?” I can easily see how this could be used to promote a blog, as you could say, “Writing on my blog *name* right now”.