While you are at that meeting, sitting through a keynote speech or doodling (like I do) on your notepad, I bet if you look around the room, everone is texting on their phone.  And if you investigate further, you will find everyone Tweeting.

You say, what on earth is that?  It is Twitter…the faster growing social networking site today.  You follow me, I’ll follow you…you get friends to follow me too…I recommend people to follow you.

There is a LOT of great information on Twitter and reading all the tweets from some of the people in the know (or “celebrities” as they are called on Twitter) will only help you with your internet career.  There area a lot of people who are willing to help if you just ask.

But if you are going to an event, you can let people follow along with you as you attend the meeting, conference, etc.  If it is an interesting event, you might want to share some ideas or tips you hear.  People love information which is being “tweeted” live.

Before you go, as early as possible, be sure to get a phone that can text.  I will not recommend any phone over another because there are SO many out there today.  I have heard a lot of people like their Blackberry or their IPhone just for the variety of applications and ease of use.

Once you have your phone, and even from your computer, start making lots of friends but don’t go crazy about yourself.  And especially DO NOT advertise your business.  No one wants to know about that when you are first getting to know someone.  You can send people to your blog or website but don’t overdo it.  You will get “unfollowed” and see your following drop.

Tweet that you will be attending the event on a regular basis and use search.twitter.com to find anyone else who might be attending.  To increase your chances of getting a follow back, send an @reply to introduce yourself.

Find out if there’s a “hashtag”, like #tcot that can help you follow tweets about the event.

When you are at the event:

You can use Twitter’s mobile site, sending tweets via text and checking them on m.twitter.com so your phone doesn’t get overloaded.

Use Twitter as a business card replacement.  Follow other Twitterers by texting “follow user-name to 40404″ and stay connected after the event.

Listen in to get instant audience feedback if you are on a panel.

You can connect instantly via direct message (DM) so you can meet up with other Tweeters.  You don’t need a mobile number to text personally.

The main thing to remember is to not get overwhelmed by all the tweets that you will see streaming by from all those you follow.  It can be a little daunting and if you click on every tweet you see that looks interesting, you will never get anything done.  It is VERY addicting!

Look for things of interest and click on only those tweets.  Just think of it like being at a party.  You usually don’t stand around talking to one person or set of people all evening.  You usually work your way around the room talking a little bit to everyone.  That is the same as Twitter….”work the room” or the message board as it is called.

Tweets are 140-character bites of information streaming by all day long.  When you are at a meeting, conference, etc. just send the interesting items.  Don’t Tweet everything…you will lose your readers interest.  Only put something of significance through the message board.

Moderation is the key with Twitter…remember, too much of  a good thing can work against you.

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January 26, 2009 – 12:26 pm PDT – by Pete Cashmore

@mashable I support @twestival in their global Twitter charity campaign!

More Twestival updates soon, and don’t forget to check out the Twestival site for info on locations, ticket sales and more.

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Twitblogs is an interesting startup currently in alpha that is designed for “long winded” Twitter life streamers like myself. It allows any Twitter user to tweet as usual, or to use Twitter for microblogging, complete with images, sounds, videos, and rich text. This will eventually allow for a deeper and more diverse experience for those who opt to dig into it. Essentially the service provides a “back story” for any Twitter tweet.

How It Works

The Twitblogs interface is clean and simple. Users are essentially looking at a three tab, top navigation interface with a sidebar reflection of their Twitter account. The top tabs reflect the functions it offers: Blog, Twitter, and Search respectively. In the screen shot below, these basic functions are seen with the other elements.

Blogging

The blog interface is the heart of this little tweet enhancer. A simple text editor is provided, along with photo and image capability. To post a tweet with extras simply requires entering the standard 140 character tweet, inputting any URLs (which are then shortened), and then adding more text and other media as desired. The end result is an update on Twitter, with a link back to the full entry. The input interface and the resulting post are illustrated below.

Input editor showing all aspects.

Tweets here work just as simply as they do on the Twitter site itself; perhaps even smoother. Without going into too much detail, it is obvious how useful and fun this tool will be for many. For those who feel frustrated with the limitations of just 140 characters, this is a happy compromise between a full blog post and a tiny tweet.

Searching

Twitblogs offers a nice search function that can be quite effective for finding people or relevant tweets on Twitter. The ability to save those searches is a helpful addition. Below is a search result along with the save function that helped me find things related to a friend.

Finding stuff related to old Pete was easy.

Other Aspects

According to the Twitblogs development team, within the next week or so, they intend to release several key features, among those are: Growl notification support, threaded conversation in the Twitter tab, auto refresh in search, twitblo.gs version of shortened URLs, and other improvements.

Conclusion

Twitblogs is co-founded by Roger Kondrat, Santosh Panda, and Sam Sethi. So far there are no strict roles for the founders, but Roger is head of Marketing and PR, Sam’s bio reads like business development, and Santosh’s akin to CTO. I suggested to Roger that Twitblogs would make one interesting tool in widget form, to which he agreed – suggesting I wait to see what’s next. Twitblogs right now is replete with a good number of bugs and glitches that make the experience rather, well, aggravating. These appear to be mainly Javascript issues, and the team assured me they are going to a more pure CSS format for many features.

Though only in very early development, Twitblogs has obvious potential. According to Roger, they already have relationships with Amazon and Sun Microsystems. From a blogger perspective it currently serves little purpose, but I see the finished tool as a communications platform in portable form. It makes sense as a widget, but one where the dialogue started on Twitter, can be used to engage a deeper dialogue and experience it quickly, easily and from anywhere. This is where I think the tool is headed, and it is actually just what Twitter needed in the first place.

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What is Twitter?

Twitter is a social networking and micrblogging service that allows its users to send and read other users’ updates (otherwise known as tweets), which are text-based posts of up to 140 characters in length.

Twitter is a service for friends, family, and co–workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question:  What are you doing?

But that “What are  you doing?” question can go a long way towards building you, your brand and your business.

Do you realize that Twitter is:

• -The most viral application social users are using right now?
• -You can accomplish listbuilding and have access to other people’s lists?
• -Twitter is a Microblogging site?

It is not the old days whereby someone captures their own list and then no one knows who is on that list.  All you need to do is click on a person’s name to see their “followers.”  You can then click on their name and start following them as well!

Join the Twitter Revolution as the multitude of Twitter Applications are presented here for your use.

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