I would say just about a month ago I was reading another blog (Problogger) and post after post mentioned Twitter. Twitter is the new thing, Twitter is the next wave of the future, Twitter is the new Drug of choice for nerds. I figured being an addictive nerd I should try in for myself. You know you never get high the first time, and I didn’t. I thought it was lame and stupid, especially being a blogger, I wanted to write more. So I said fuck it (excuse my language) and I turned away from it. But I just kept hearing about and reading about it and I thought I’d give it another shot. What really got me into Twitter was the apps. If it wasn’t for the apps I would not be on Twitter. I installed Twitterfox for Firefox and now all day I receive tweets and I can respond to them. And I even use it as a bookmarking tool. So if I’m on an interested site, I will type
Reading: Name of Site – http://linkgoeshere.com
That way I’m keeping a bookmark and sharing it at the same time.
Perhaps the biggest way Twitter has impacted me is the fact that this very post came as a suggestion from another tweeter. I simply asked What should I blog about and boom! Up came this suggestion, so I ran with it. Thanks @olorinpc
Also I just started this new blog you are reading and already Twitter has become the third highest source for my traffic behind direct input and google, that’s huge. So I encourage all bloggers to sign up for Twitter, if not for ideas at least for some good relevant traffic.
by The Iconfactory
Twitterrific is a fun application that lets you both read and publish posts or “tweets” to the Twitter community website. Easy to use with a ton of features. It has a dark tone to it, where as Twitter itself is very bright. They also make desktop applications. Cool Feature: Send photos right from your phone
Twinkle
by Tapulous Inc.
Discover, connect, and send messages to people nearby. Upload photos and update your Twitter account. Contact old friends and make new ones, all with Twinkle, the location-aware network for the iPhone and iPod Touch.
TwitterFon
by Kazuho Okui
A simple, fast Twitter client for your iPhone.focused on 80% of your task of Twitter such as view friends/replies/messages timeline and send/reply a tweet.
Twittelator
by Big Stone Phone and Stone Design Corp.
Twittelator is yet another Twitter client for the iPhone and iPod Touch. The user interface of this application isn’t as pretty as say, Twitterrific. . .but it does have more functionality.
Twittervision
by PopVox LLC.
Twittervision, a Twitter visualization website built with the Twitter API, using location data from Twittermap (a Twitter/Google Maps Mashup).
Not Free
Tweetsville
by Ed Voas and Tapulous Inc.
$3.99
Timelines let you keep track of what’s going on. Shows up to 200 tweets, Rich text display. *bold* will display as bold, etc., Clickable inline links and @names, Two looks: Balloon and Simple, Displays border for tweets in which you are referenced in Balloon mode and Tap a tweet to view details, send replies, and mark as a favorite.
Welcome friends. This is my first attempt at a screencast, so if it’s horrible let me know. I wanted to take time and start to introduce you to my websites so that you will have a better understanding of what I’m trying to accomplish. This is only the first part of a multi-part presentation of my work but I wanted to show you the front end of my flagship site. After watching the video, feel free to paruse the site and let me know what you think. Remember it’s a work in progress, so bare with me. We are learning together. Enjoy
Looking around for good quality content can be tough, especially fonts. I think that paying for fonts is stupid. All fonts should be free, I should start a movement. Like free health care for all and free fonts for all. Anyway, I have been to so many different sites but I would like to recommend and provide you a link to one in particular. DaFont.com. It’s 100% free and works for both Mac and PC. And the best part about this site is, the fonts are actually really good. See for yourself.
When I heard about Twitter and started using it I though it was stupid. I didn’t understand it and I was ignorant towards it. Since then my bias has swung the other way drastically. I think Twitter is one of the greatest Social Media outlets available. It’s so freaking simple.
I currently operate two Twitter accounts, one for this site (and for me) and one for Swim University. If you use Twitter feel free to follow me (@swimuniversity.com – @overnightsite)
What is Twitter?
The way I explain Twitter to folks is, it’s like microblogging mixed with AIM. It’s an instant messaging system that you can talk directly to people or just say anything you want, like a blog. But instead of writing really long post, you write mini ones. Twitter only allows you to type 140 characters at a time. Sometimes I post a link to a website I’m looking at or what I’m doing or writing about. Sometimes I just post jokes or say dumb things to get a rise out of people, but mostly I use it for promotion.
Auto Tweet
There are two websites that I currently use to post Tweets with. I use TwitterFeed.com and TweetLater.com.
What TwitterFeed.com does is allow me to submit my RSS feeds so that every time I update my blog it sends out a tweet on my Twitter account with a link to my new post AUTOMATICALLY!
With Tweetlater.com I can type a bunch of tweets and time them to go out at different times of the day. I can also automatically follow anyone who decides to follow me and send all my new followers a welcome message.
These are great tools but it doesn’t mean that’s all you should do. Some people hate broadcasters, you know people who just self promote on twitter. You need to engage in conversations with others, be personal. So I mix the two together. I auto-tweet and manual-tweet all damn day. And now it’s my 3 highest referer site to TheOvernightSite.com and SwimUniversity.com’s Blog.
