Exploding the 14 Elements of a Tweet

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There are fourteen different elements that can be embedded in tweets on your Timeline in Twitter. It’s highly unlikely that you will find all of these in a single tweet. To cut down on verbosity and repetition I’ve cut and pasted them all into a single pseudo tweet screenshot:

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Twitter Tutorial 2011 Edition Coming soon

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The new version of my Twitter tutorial is nearing completion and I hope to have the final draft ready within the next week. I’ve been working on this one on and off for a month. It’s taken a long time because of… too many excuses to remember. What’s changed in the revised third edition? A … [Read More]

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Mastering Twitter In 10 Minutes… Or Less (Version 2)

It’s hard to believe that over eighteen months have passed since I first released my Twitter tutorial! With a new year and the old tutorial getting a bit tatty and outdated I finally sat down and “refurbished” it. And it didn’t just get a new cover! Here are some of the updates in the 2009 … [Read More]

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Is Twitter The Next Email Killer?

In his latest article for Fast Company Robert Scoble makes an interesting case for the latest Web 2.0 toys and how they will influence us in the years to come. Twitter gets the lion’s share of attention – that it deserves – being the fore-runner of this new online phenomenon. The most notable insights Robert … [Read More]

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Twitter Starves Search Engines

Well, it was bound to happen some time or another… Twitter decided that it would not be feeding the search engines anymore. I first noticed this yesterday and thought I was seeing things… but nope, looks like it’s here to stay. All links posted inside your tweets now have the dreaded “nofollow” tag embedded into … [Read More]

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