Oh Twitter, Oh Twitter

OK, I'm hooked. Twitter is fun. Twitter is informative. However it takes a lot of time to manage a reasonable Twitter presence.

First, you have to get TweetDeck . TweetDeck helps you keep on top of what is going on in your Twitterverse. For my Mac freinds, and possibly others, they are having some memory leak issues, but I understand this is getting better. Even so, don't Tweet without TweetDeck.

Next you need TweetLater . The TweetLater site says "Learn How To Stand Out By Adding Sizzle To Your Online Persona". This is a powerful set of tools. Schedule tweets, track keywords, save and reuse drafts, send automatic direct-message thank-yous to new followers, a personal status feed and much more.

Soemhow you need to be found. I just stubled on Twellow. This site is like a yellow-pages for Twitter. Register and select your categories.

Are you in this for business? Many people are. Google Twitter for Business and you will find a lot of articles. One of the best ones is 50 Ideas on Using Twitter for Business .

As you get more into it you will want to know how you are doing. Take a look at Twitalizer. From the site - "Twitalyzer is a unique tool to evaluate the activity of any Twitter user and report on relative influence, signal-to-noise ratio, generosity, velocity, clout, and other useful measures of success in social media." I'm just getting started, but here is a recent report for agile_coach. How do I get that Clout up? ;>)

Oh, Twitter, Oh Twitter are you here to stay or the hot thing today? I think it is here to stay.

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