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Common Twitter Mistakes

• Following a lot of people too fast

• Tweeting everything

• Being too commercial

• Keeping default avatar

• Not leaving enough room to be retweeted

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Twitter Tips & Tricks• Fill out your personal information, link

to your website

• Customize background

• Define your Twitter goals

• Find something interesting, share it• Music, article, video, picture, etc.

• Read the Twitter blog (http://blog.twitter.com/)

• Include your personality, be yourself

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Application Programming Interface (API)

• Allows applications, websites, and tools to interact with programs (i.e. Twitter, Facebook, Google)

• Twitter’s API lets other web services and applications integrate with Twitter– You can tweet your Flickr photo stream

– Dynamically post content; sharing your tweets as status updates in Facebook

– Provides applications (i.e. TweetDeck) access Twitter data and functions

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Twitter Desktop Client:TweetDeck

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Reply to TheEllenShow

Direct message TheEllenShow

Retweet the TheEllenShow’s tweet

Other actions

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Move column left

Show what is popular in this column

Filter this column

Mark all as seen

Clear seen updates

Clear all

Move column right

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Alternatives to TweetDeck

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Twitter Tools:Search & Analysis

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Twitter Tools:Security & Protection

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Twitter Tools:Finding People to Follow

Twitter Tools

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Twitter Tools:Content Sharing