Twitter Tips, Tricks, and Tweets [Paperback]

Paul McFedries (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 1, 2010 | ISBN-10: 0470624663 | ISBN-13: 978-0470624661 | Edition: 2

Maximize your fun and boost your productivity with this updated, full-color guide to tantalizing Twitter tips!

The popularity of Twitter continues to soar, and is fast becoming the most popular social networking site online. Whether you're looking to learn how to set up an account for the first time or are on the prowl for some cool third-party Twitter apps, this full-color guide will boost your entire Twitter experience.

Allowing you to communicate with fellow Twitters within a 140-character limit, this fun and fascinating social networking tool is easier than maintaining a blog and quicker than sending an e-mail or text. With these tips, tricks, and tweets, you'll stay in the know and up to date on anything and everything you find interesting.

• Explores the newest Twitter features, including the new re-tweet feature, which adds a re-tweet button to each tweet on a person's timeline, much like the sites current "reply" button
• Discusses Twitter's new search widget, which is more sophisticated and precise
• Shows how to use the just-announced Geolocation API, which adds location-based information to tweets
• Explains how to tweet from mobile devices
• Shows how to add Twitter to a blog or to other social networking sites such as Facebook
• Offers ideas for using Twitter in business as well as for personal contacts
• Covers Twitter terminology and provides helpful tips and tricks for expanding Twitter's usefulness through third-party applications

Explore the possibilities of Twitter and discover what the buzz is all about with this tremendously terrific guide to Twitter!

Editorial Reviews

Review

'...a complete guide to the tweets, apps and tricks involved in belonging to one of the world's fastest-growing communities.' (Management Today, July 2010).

From the Back Cover

getting_started New to Twitter? Learn to create an account, set a password, complete a profile, begin tweeting, manage updates, and follow others.

cool_new_stuff Discover all the new tools, services, and sites that more than 100 million Twitterers are using.

tweet_n_retweet Reply to updates, download a friend's tweets, view your own and your friends' retweets, and keep someone's retweets out of your timeline.

tweets_to_go Set up Twitter's mobile phone feature and manage Twitter with tools like TweetDeck, TwitterBerry, Twitterific, and Twittelator Pro.

search_it_out Perform basic and advanced searches, add Twitter Search to your browser, and use Bing Twitter, Twitterfall, TweetBeep, and other tools.

where_R_U Geotag your tweets, connect to third-party Twitter apps, manage access, track tweets by location, or tweet events to your Google calendars.

twitter_bling Add Twitter widgets to your Web site, gadgets to your desktop, an app to your Facebook profile, and your tweets to your LinkedIn page.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 288 pages
• Publisher: Wiley; 2 edition (June 1, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0470624663
• ISBN-13: 978-0470624661
• Product Dimensions: 6.1 x 0.6 x 9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #372,350 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars "Twitter Tips, Tricks, and Tweets" - ToolBox for New, Novice & Re-Fresh Users, etc... April 6, 2012

By Michael Sykes

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>>>..."Twitter Tips, Tricks, and Tweets" is an Exceptional ToolBox of Twitter Knowledge & Information in 9 Chapters, 265+ pages that will assist the Twitter new, novice & re-fresh users from A to Z!!!...It Combines both words & pictures, etc. that build & blend with each other for all types of Twitter user's advantage!Twitter Tips, Tricks, and Tweets
>>>...Renown Writer & Technical Author, etc. Paul McFedries has put together a Newbie Guide with and for all types of Twitter Starters, etc!!!.>.Also, Included is a Foreword from Pete Cashmore, CEO and founder of Mashable.com
>>>..."Twitter Tips, Tricks, and Tweets".>>>. A great investment/purchase that will get you started and help you determine your next Twitter steps!!!.>.Nothing To It But To Get One!!!.>.NOW / TODAY.>.Carpe Diem-Seize The Day!!!...Michael.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Twitter technical manual July 31, 2011

By Steve Burns TOP 1000 REVIEWERVINE™ VOICE

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This book is excellent for the way it explains step by step every aspect of setting up your user profile and using twitter. It also shows the reader how to get the most out of their experience on twitter by using 3rd party twitter applications. The author takes you all the way from setting up your profile step by step, to sending tweets, replying to tweet, searching twitter for subjects you are interested in and who to follow.

He also goes into more advanced topics like displaying your twitter feed on your blog, web site, facebook, or LinkedIn profile. He explores how hash tags are used on twitter. You will learn how to set up twitter on your phone to tweet on the go. He covers all the basics like retweets, geo-tagging, and how to share links, videos, and pictures through your tweets.

The amount of information he gives about all the available web sites that you can connect with through your twitter account and use to amplify your twitter experience is very useful. The book is very much a step by step technical guide, with half the pages walking you through how to do something with twitter. The book is an easy read and is but together and organized well with colorful screen shots above instructions.

This book is excellent for beginners and those interested in third party applications and how to use them. I wish the author would have went more in depth on how to get followers and the art of tweeting, however it is a great edition to your twitter library.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Best Twitter Reference for All Levels of User Experience January 28, 2011

By Dr. Bojan Tunguz HALL OF FAMETOP 50 REVIEWERVINE™ VOICE

Format:Paperback

Twitter has become one of the major social networking sites, and many people use it as a primary way of communicating and informing oneself. This is pretty remarkable for a site that only allows you to post short 140 character messages at a time. Such an apparently Spartan interface has proved irresistible to millions of users worldwide, and Twitter has become a major social force in its own right. (As I write this news is filled with stories of unrest in Tunisia and Egypt, both of which have been fueled with a help from Twitter and other social media website.)

It turns out that Twitter's user interface is deceptively simplistic, and with a bit of creativity and know-how you can accomplish a lot, one tweet at a time. "Twitter tips, tricks and tweets" is a user manual of sorts for Twitter that goes well beyond your everyday tweeting needs. It is perhaps one of the best-written and most in-depth books on helping you take your tweeting experience to the max. The topics covered include getting started with Twitter, customizing Twitter profile, multiple ways of sending out tweets, following other Twitter users, using Twitter on your cell phone, finding stuff on Twitter, various ways of displaying your Twitter feed on external websites, taking Twitter to the next level, and tools that you can use to extend Twitter's functionality.

The book is printed on a nice glossy paper with plenty of illustrations and screenshots that help you visualize the points that are being made. All topics are well organized and subdivided in small, manageable sections. This helps finding the right kind of information when you really need it that much easier.

Whether you are an experienced Twitter user or are completely new to it you will certainly find a lot of useful and fun information in this book.