Twitter Resources

[Maw Books]

Twitter is a great place to make connections with other book bloggers and to promote your blog. There are tons of us on Twitter now and it's so much fun! I thought I'd link over to some various resources to help you out.

Run by Darren Rowse, you should definitely subscribe to TwiTip. Has just about everything you need.

Adding retweet buttons to any page.

How to add tweetbacks and re-tweets to your blogger blog.

List of Twitter tools.

More Twitter tools.

WordPress plugin to integrate blog and twitter (I use this to Tweet my blog posts)

Developing a Twitter landing page on your blog (this is on my to do list)

Five Twitter applications and tools.

Friend or follow. I use this one a lot. I just unfollowed 50 people who were not following me back and I felt like were just boging down my timeline. It also makes me sad because there are like 20-30 bloggers who I wish were following me but aren't.

I love Twitter Counter. I use it to put a badge on my blog of the number of followers I have. Also, it confirmed that as soon as I put a custom background on, my follower numbers shot straight up.

Creating custom Twitter backgrounds. I love to see custom backgrounds, especially ones that match the blog.

I have liked using TweetGrid to follow hashtags because it updates in real time.

Okay, that's all for now. But there are a lot more out there. What do you use to help you out on Twitter or to integrate your blog?

[Ann Kingman]

Here's a tip I'm not sure is in the posts listed above.
If you use a URL shortener to tweet links, bit.ly will give you stats about how many people and who retweets the links, how many people click the link, and when.

All you need to do is put the bit.ly URL in your browser bar and add a + after it. When you go to that URL you will see the stats. This works for any bit.ly URL, not just one that you have created.

[Bart]

Some great resources, Natasha, thanks for posting them, and for bumping this topic back up, so I spotted it! :o)

[Debbie]

Has anyone used the retweet plugin for Wordpress mentioned first up above? I'm using the sociable plugin and notice the Tweet, Digg, etc. buttons only appear if you click on a specific post. I was wondering if someone is just reading through my blog if I can get a retweet button to show up for every post without having to open them up. Thanks!

[Bart]

I have it on my blog, found the easiest way was via the code on this page:

http://help.tweetmeme.com/2009/04/06/tweetmeme-button/

[Debbie]

thanks!

[Jen Knox]

Thanks for the information. I'm new to Twitter, was trying so hard to resist... but this is great advice.

[shabnam]

hi i m new at twitter dunno any thing how & where to start no friend at twitter plz help me to get started