April 22, 2009
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There is no shortage of Twitter related post floating around the internet these days. In fact, it is quite the opposite. There are tons of them out there these days. Some of them are good and some of them are just filled with so much crap or schemes it makes you wonder who wrote it. We decided to do a round up of some of the best Twitter related tutorials out there to help you out. This list includes tutorials on everything from how to change your Twitter background to how to use the Twitter API.
Basic/Set-Up Tutorials
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1. Twitter in Plain English
Not so much a tutorial but a clever video explanation of what Twitter is and what it’s for. Worth watching.
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2. Is Twitter for the Birds? A Tweet Tweet Tutorial
Great overview of what it is, how to use it, and why.
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3. How to Set Up a Twitter Account
Excellent, concise 5 steps to being set up on Twitter.
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4. Mastering Twitter in 10 Minutes or Less
You have to download the PDF to master Twitter in this tutorial. But for those of you that still like to have instructions on paper in front of you this is the way to go.
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5. What Should You Tweet About?
A great article about what to write about on Twitter.
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6. Using Twitter…’The Smart Way’
A good one-stop tutorial about how to get set up and use twitter. Especially if you’re looking to use Twitter for business.
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7. How to Twitter – Tips and Tools to Get You Started
A unique take on how to get started using twitter. Less technical and more practical.
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7. How to Twitter – Tips and Tools to Get You Started
A unique take on how to get started using twitter. Less technical and more practical.
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8. Beginner’s Quick Start Guide and Tutorial to Using Twitter
If you need a little star power in your start-up tutorial here’s one written by the CEO of Zappos.com
Intermediate Tutorials
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9. 5 Tips to Grow Your Twitter Presence
A great article with tips on how to make your Tweets more substantial.
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10. Make a Tweet Plan to Get the Most From Twitter
A practical approach to making Twitter a successful part of your routine.
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11. How to Use Twitter as a Tool
A straightforward collection of tips to maximize how you use Twitter especially as a business tool.
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12. O’reilly Webcast: Twitter for Business
Want to know everything there is to know about Twitter for Business. This one’s for you. Make sure you block out a full hour…it’s a long video.
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13. Harnessing the Power of Twitter for your Business
If you’re looking for the cliffs notes to the video above…here it is.
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14. How Your Twitter Profile Can Attract Followers
Some great tips on how to attract followers just by enhancing what’s in your profile bar.
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15. Twitter for Business – An Introductory Guide
A good overview of how to use your 140 characters to market your business.
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16. Twitter Tutorial – Twittering for Fun and Profit
Another tutorial from the same folks as above. This one more focused on planning and content.
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17. Feed Your Blog to Twitter
A great video tutorial of how to synchronize your tweets and your blog.
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18. Twitter Background Design How-To and Best Practices
Excellent tutorial from blog.spoongraphics on how to give your Twitter background a bit more flavor.
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19. 8 Useful Tips to Become Successful With Twitter
Smashing Magazine comes through with a great post on how to be “Successful” with Twitter.
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20. 10 Awesome Ways to Integrate Twitter with your Website
If you’re looking to streamline your social network check out these tools to get the most out of your Tweets.
Expert Tutorials
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21. How To Make a Unique Website for Your Twitter Updates
Another tutorial on how to make your Twitter a little more original.
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22. Create a Twitter Box in your Sidebar
A different take, much more technical, on how to integrate Twitter into your blog.
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23. Create Free Polls for Twitter with PollDaddy
Want to find out what your followers think of you? Send out a Poll.
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24. Getting Started with the Twitter API
A little something for the developers on where to start with Twitter’s “Application Programming Interface”
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25. How to Link Twitter to Facebook
One more way to bring together your social networks by having your Tweets automatically post to your facebook status.
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26. How to Automate Twitter and Send Direct Messages to Your Followers
A good tutorial if you’re looking to use Twitter as a Direct Marketing Tool.
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27. How to Auto Follow People on Twitter
If you’re an avid Twitter user and want to follow everyone that’s following you here’s a tutorial on how to automate it.
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28. How to Run Multiple Twitter Feeds on the Same Page
Adding Twitter to your blog…taken to the next level!
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29. How to Set Up an Auto Response Back to New Followers in Twitter
A video tutorial on how to automatically keep in touch with new followers.
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30. WPF Tutorial – A Simple Twitter Client
If you really want to get into it this guy builds a twitter client from scratch.
Twitter is HUGE and I know this isn’t everything. What did I miss? Leave a comment and let us know what you think is the best/most helpful Twitter tutorial out there!
April 22, 2009 7:28 am
Nice compilation, these lists are uber helpful for those of us trying to bring the tremendous value of social networking to companies resistant to new and relatively unproven marketing channels!
April 23, 2009 6:15 am
I agree. I think its nice to have such a selection of tutorials on various levels in one spot.
April 22, 2009 3:06 pm
Forgive me, but I continue to find it amazing that people need so much help and advice to learn how to type 140 characters in a box. In that regard, I offer an alternative viewpoint to all the “Here’s How To Twitter” guides in my essay, “Steal This Twitter: An Un-Guide for New Users,” at http://pfunn.com/?p=439.
April 23, 2009 7:41 am
This is so great and helpful, i’ll make sure to tweet it.
Thanks,
Debbie17
htpp://www.twitter.com/debbie17
April 25, 2009 12:19 pm
Thanks for the very useful information. I plan to use this post often.
John Knox
Follow me on Twitter:
http://www.twitter.com/johneknox
April 26, 2009 2:24 am
Number 26 is the crap that adds spam to the great network. Just my opinion but it is getting overused to the point of making great communication tool into spam machine.
April 30, 2009 7:49 pm
Bradley, Thanks for including two of my posts in your list of essential tutorials. You are encouraging me to complete another post that is still a draft. It’s based on an in-person twitter tutorial for a friend. He thought a blog post was a good idea. http://www.twitter.com/fairminder
May 1, 2009 8:13 am
So Twitter is awesome for Taking traffic to you website . It is very
simple to setup and its a fun positive way to keep in contact with
people. To get more followers on twitter check out this amazing
tool.
Twitter
Traffic Machine
May 3, 2009 12:58 am
Nice collection, I’m checking some of them out now!
You have a new subscriber ;D!
May 3, 2009 1:18 am
Some good stuff here. I’m torn between quality and quantity of people I follow right now.
May 5, 2009 1:52 pm
Very useful post. Stumbled the list.
May 7, 2009 2:38 am
Hey, do you know @happyseaurchin on Twitter? Seems like y’all would get along (see profile pic to know why I think so).
May 7, 2009 2:36 am
Great stuff… am adding this to my Twitter Newbie FAQ: http://butwait.pbworks.com/Twitter-Newbies-FAQ
Thank you!
May 8, 2009 7:11 am
Great resource!
I thought you might like to add this article I wrote not too long ago, named “Make the Most of Your 140 Twitter Characters”:
http://www.tutwow.com/tips/make-the-most-of-your-140-twitter-characters/
May 14, 2009 2:07 am
As someone who has taken to twitter in past few months, this article is very good. Seems to be lots of twitter experts out there but the resources above are genuine and written with authority
Thanks
Brian
May 17, 2009 10:15 pm
i gust want to say some thing “great job”
Update your Twitter randomly according to your intrest Or, from Rss Feed Or, from your own tweet message list Or, Any combination of the above three http://feedmytwitter.com
June 16, 2009 11:37 pm
I did a writeup a couple days ago on how to use twitter to engage in real, dynamic dialogue with others instead of just being a spam recipient and redirector.
The basic focus is on how to build a following while still blocking most of the autobots, if you’ll pardon the unintentional Transformers reference.
http://digg.com/d1tpnT
July 7, 2009 2:19 am
Thanks for the great list.
Check out the free “Twitter Guide for Marketers” we created:
http://www.mojaveinteractive.com/think/a-twitter-guide-for-marketers.html
We’d love to have you add it to the list if you like it.
Follow us at: http://twitter.com/thisisMojave
July 7, 2009 4:01 am
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July 8, 2009 7:14 pm
Great list. I’ve linked to your post from my site. I think it’s easy to forget how many people are still outside the social media scene.
July 8, 2009 7:29 pm
GREAT stuff indeed…
But why are there two number 7′s ???
July 8, 2009 7:31 pm
Just to test discerning readers like yourself…
August 2, 2009 8:09 am
just tweeted this, really useful, thanks
October 20, 2009 7:45 pm
I’ve always been a little suspicious of twitter, wondering whether its just a fad or whatever. Maybe I’ll decide after I’ve looked at some of these…