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All a Twitter: A Personal and Professional Guide to Social Networking with Twitter

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I'm not a big fan of tech books. My eyes tend to blur as authors bombard me with fact after fact and it takes me several readings to get all that dry information straight.
This book is different. Tee Morris has written a book that feels like a friend is showing you around Twitter, complete with tips and pitfalls (love the 'Little Birdie told me' and 'Fail Whale says').
There is a lot more to this social media craze than is immediately apparent, and I can only hope plenty of people read this book and have their eyes opened to all the ways Twitter can work for them. This is the book that I will be putting in front of our computer manager so that he has some idea of 'this Twitter thing.'

I don't usually read these types of books - I like to read for fun. But guess what, this book IS fun. I have been on Twitter for about 6 months and this answered some questions I had as well as giving me new information on compatible applications, building a network and "twetiquette". I'm not using all that Twitter has to offer just yet so will keep this book around for future reference.

If you have been contemplating jumping on to Twitter for the first time, if you're a long term Twitter user (hello, my name is Gary and I'm a tweetaholic) or if you have ever been put into the situation where someone asks you to explain Twitter, you should immediately purchase All a Twitter.

As several of the other reviews have mentioned, although All a Twitter contains all of pertinent information a new user will need, it also is extremely valuable for an experienced user as well. (I especially liked the chapter on Twitter clients) All a Twitter even contains advice on how to make Tweeting from your phone an entirely enjoyable experience.

And maybe most importantly to me, (as also mentioned previously) this book does not read like a textbook. The author obviously knows what he is talking about, but is not above having fun with his intended audience.

Extremely well written and exceedingly informative, All a Twitter is definitely a must for anyone using, or considering using, Twitter.

I sat on the review of this excellent book with a long title, All A Twitter: A Personal and Professional Guide to Social Networking with Twitter, for some time. I happened to meet Tee Morris at BlogWorldExpo this fall and see where the humor and energy in the book came from. He does an excellent job of guiding the beginner and professional through the phases of Twitter.

His entry chapter What is Twitter (and What It Is Not) lays the groundwork for the reasons most people don't understand the whats and whys of Twitter and explains them in humor and direct example. For those that still don't get it, or those using it and don't get it, this is for you.

After a couple chapters on establishing an account, setting up your profile and the please do's and please do not's, he talks of working beyond the website. He does have chapters on outside tools, and I shook my head in amazement he left out EverythingTwitter as a great source to find whatever you need. Yes, I mentioned this to him jokingly in email and he took it in great fun as he must have heard from many people.

Pay special attention to the chapter on The Trouble with Twitter as it does an excellent job of covering the fail whale, issues with some very personal information sharing, signal to noise ratios and dealing with the explosive growth of Twitter and how it affects the technical performance side.

Chapters 10 and 11 cover how to use Twitter for personal and business use respectively and make the most benefit of it no matter how you wish to use it. From communicating with friends and family to promoting products/services, events, conferences, podcasts and more. In all he covers how Twitter is a tool to be used in so many ways and gives concrete examples of each.

Chapter 12 is an eye opener for most that only hear hype around using Twitter. Tee talks about the darker side of what goes on and the dymanics of how we are all interconnected. Who do you follow? Who do you ignore? Should you block? What about spammers? Bots? Incomplete profiles and more. It is succinct and honest about some of the behind the scenes issues that power users see daily.

Mr Morris leaves with why he is on Twitter and how he uses it in daily work and promotion before an appendix of some terms and more tools.

At ~260 pages, this is a must have for those entering social media with Twitter and makes for a clear and concise read with just enough technical information for any level of user. Amazon has it for only [...] right now and I think that is quite the bargain. Published by Que.

Disclaimers: This book was sent to read free of charge through some promo people and I was not obligated to say anything good or bad about it. I actually read the darn thing and enjoyed it, even with how I use Twitter on a daily basis. After meeting Tee Morris I saw some of the drive and determination he had and it made the remainder of the read even more enjoyable as you can place the author with the book.

I also run [...] and shook him fiercely at BlogWorld when he failed to mention us, the largest review catalog of Twitter tools and add-ons. Kidding, I never shook him. He might have tripped, but I am unaware of who did it. :-)

This review can also be found on [...] in full form with links.

Like it or not, Twitter and other social media are here to stay for a long time. If you want to keep up with the times, especially if you own a business or promote a certain cause, it's a good idea to familiarize yourself with Twitter. This book will explain to you all you need to know top open and organize your account. It's a good idea to keep the book next to you as you navigate the site.

The book will take you step-by-step in opening up an account, choosing an appropriate profile picture, expressing yourself in 140-character-maximum tweets, and of course a lot more. The other reviews and Amazon's review pretty much summed up the basic ideas you can find in this book, but I will say that the book even tells you how to use and track hashtags, and shorten URLs. These two can be used not just on Twitter, but other sites as well. You can also learn about Twitter-related applications on other websites that can help you make the most of your social media experience.

After you read this, you should be able to get Twitter on your phone (through text messages, Blackberry, G1, or iPhone), send your tweets to Facebook, send links in your tweets, and market products or causes to the masses. If you're the type of person that can easily learn how to use internet applications on your own, you won't need the entire book, but it may be worth your while to skim it or borrow it to make sure you're completely proficient on how to use Twitter.

I am a recently unemployed individual looking to develope a career as an independant designer of knitwear and knitting patterns. As such, I wanted to take advantage of the latest social networking technology available. I looked at a few books on Twitter. I had heard of it, knew of a few people who were already on it, but really had no idea what it was, how it could be used, or how to go about using it. I chose "All A Twitter" because it gives you not only the technical information about Twitter but more importantly the nuances of what Twitter can be and how you can make the most of your tweets.

Tee Morris's book was a HUGE help! It is written in an easy to use, conversational style. It is arranged in such a way that you can read the beginning, open your Twitter account, and then continue reading as you begin tweeting and gaining experience. This is really like having a friend (a really cool, tech-savy friend) come over for coffee and teach you how to tweet.

Getting started on Twitter and sending tweets is simple. Creating a profile and sending and using tweets in a way that will get you noticed (in a possitive way) and becoming part of a vibrant community is not so simple (unless you have read this book).

Tee explains some of the many, many options available for Twitter related applications in a fair and balanced way so that you can make your own decissions about what to try. He also has tips and tricks scattered throughout. And, most importantly, things to avoid doing so that you do not become part of the 'noise' that will lead to being unfollowed or worse yet, blocked.

Like most things in life Twitter is what you make of it. Tee has helped make Twitter and the tweeple I follow a remarkable part of my life both personally and professionally.

You can find me @fearlessknitter and the author is @TeeMonster. I'm sure he would be happy to hear from you (preferably after you have read his book). Use #allatwitter as the hash tag (you'll understand that too after you read the book).

This book is a solid homerun and a terrific read. It's written by Tee Morris, a guy that not only knows what he's talking about, but has been an active member of the Twitter community since 2007. In my opinion, he has plenty of "Tweet Cred." In about 270 easy-to-read pages, Tee covers it all; from what Twitter is, to more importantly, what it is not, to setting it up properly, taking it on the go while also providing a Ben Franklin "what I like, what I don't" on a wide variety of desktop clients and apps that have sprung up to support the Twitter community. The book contains thirteen chapters with two appendices.

While I had created a Twitter account months ago, I honestly had done little with it. Why? Beyond "tweeting" that I had just walked my dog, I wasn't sure what the fuss was about. Seems that most people who initially discover Twitter are either overwhelmed by it or use it primarily as a broadcast medium.

What impressed me the most about this book is that you will quickly realize there are quality people, and Tee is in that vanguard, that care passionately about "building a community" and are not simply typing inane phrases or focusing exclusively on trying to monetizing the Twitter experience. Social media is supposed to be about connecting. Quality of relationships and not sheer quantity of followers, is the name of the game.

I buy a lot of computer books and this is worth the money. Not surprising though, for as long as I've been reading computer books (there is no shame in admitting that), Que has been a consistently strong performer. There are tips and tricks in here that I suspect even a hardcore Twitter user will pick up. Check this book out. You will not be disappointed. The only question I had after reading it was "When is Part Two coming?!"

After reading this book, I found that Tee Morris's approach to twitter was balanced, fair and sound. His perspectives of using twitter for business seem like a breath of fresh air from the other publications that just go about spouting the magnificence of this application and nothing else. Tee tells you about twitter "like it is." He pulls no punches in telling you what it is NOT and how some people are using it in ways that actually backfire on them, due to their ignorance (or stubbornness).
Especially useful was the chapter on ANTI-SOCIAL MEDIA. This approach places the weblebrities, the spammers, the Internet 'gurus' and "marketers" into their proper light and helps you to decide whom to follow (and, respecitively, whom to un-follow) so that your twitter experience and presence can be of more value to your followers (and to your company).
Enjoyable is Tee Morris's style and his personal expression of not only his opinions, but also the pitfalls into which he himself had fallen -- so that we don't do the same. In short, I really took this as a great "lessons-learned" approach in this treatise on twitter. And, yes, I have read several other books about twitter (they were either only how-to books or 'twitter-love-fest' themes, unfortunately).

I'm always a little worried when approaching non-fiction titles that I'll find them dry. That's definitely not the case here. Tee has written a fun[ny], easy-to-read book that gives you the guff on Twitter - the good, the bad & the ugly. He makes it simple, understandable and you really can't go wrong with it. One thing it is not - it is not a marketing book. It will tell you how to do business as part of the Twitter community, organically, without annoying people. So please, do it this way!

Having paged briefly through some of the "Hey, here's how you HAVE TO USE TWITTER" books, I have to say that if you only choose ONE BOOK to read regarding Twitter...make it Tee Morris's All A Twitter.
It's NOT techie and boring and dry. It's NOT "use it like this or you're stupid!". It's NOT pandering to marketers or "social media experts" or twitter dummies.

It IS funny, informative, and well-written. It IS helpful in showing the reader around the many, many, many applications that have been created for twitter use.

I've been with twitter a long time but I learned a few things while being engaged.

Get this book - you won't be sorry.