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Learn to Reply on Twitter

Replies set the cornerstone of Twitter’s communication capabilities. We use them every day in hopes of making new friends or keeping up with old ones.
A few months ago, Twitter made some changes to their @reply system that prevented people from seeing conversations out of context. Everyone freaked out and Twitter clarified on their changes. I [...]

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16 Twitter Analogies To Help You Explain Twitter

by Jon Bishop on June 10, 2009

in Twitter

Explaining Twitter

I seem to find myself digging for great Twitter analogies when faced with the paradox of explaining Twitter to a friend. You would think that something so simple would be easy to explain, yet somehow people are still dumbfounded by its purpose.
So here is a solid little list of Twitter analogies I’ve found scattered across [...]

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Starting a Twitter Account from Scratch

by Jon Bishop on October 1, 2008

in Social Media, Twitter

How to get a following on Twitter

If you haven’t checked out my Twitter Starter Page, you might want to go ahead and do that before reading this post. You have to have a pretty basic understanding of how to use Twitter before you can really start using it effectively.
Sometimes however, you might need a little bump in followers to start getting [...]

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Twitter 101

by Jon Bishop on April 30, 2008

in How To, Social Media, Twitter

Everything you need to know about Twitter in as short of a post as possible.
What is Twitter?
Twitter is a social networking and micro-blogging service that allows users to send “updates” (or “tweets”; text-based posts, up to 140 characters long) to the Twitter website, via short message service (e.g. on a cell phone), instant messaging, or [...]

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