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The Queen Joins Twitter

// July 12th, 2009 // No Comments » // Twitter Tools

The Queen joins Twitter. HRH The Queen of England has joined the ever growing popularity of Twitter. http://bit.ly/Zd7Om

The account @britishmonarchy will be run by both Clarence House and Buckingham Palace and will include updates of official engagements and what members of the Royal Family are up to.

Sadly individual members will not be tweeting….:)

Tweetdeck

// July 5th, 2009 // No Comments » // Twitter Tools

Tweetdeck is the coolest client.

It has so many features I cant even describe them all so I have sourced a video to start you off.

Enjoy!

Tweetmeme

// July 4th, 2009 // No Comments » // Twitter Tools

Twitter is such a powerful tool for communication and sharing great information that all the former market  leaders in the social media arena like www.digg.com and www.stumbleupon.com are scrambling to keep up.

Tweetmeme: [@tweetmeme] is an authority when it comes to retweeted URLs and stories.

Tweetmeme tracks the most popular links on Twitter. Once a link receives enough retweets, it appears on the front page of Tweetmeme.

Tweetmeme can also be broken down by categories (i.e. sports, entertainment, technology). So each day you can quickly scan what the most popular stories people are talking about are. It is a great wait to quickly ascertain trends, what’s hot and what’s not.

How to Retweet

// June 11th, 2009 // 1 Comment » // Twitter Tools

Retweeting someone else’s post is the highest form of endorsement on Twitter. It also helps share good information with the Twitter community.

If you are smart- you will retweet other people good posts. As ideally you want your own good content to be retweeted as much as possible to get your messages out there.

It’s important to know how to do this properly as a form of “Twitiquette” (Twitter Etiquette) especially when you’re new to Twitter.

Here’s how retweet works…

Let’s say someone makes a great tweet:

@joebloggs: The highest form of compliment on Twitter is the retweet.

If you think that someone’s tweet is so interesting and remarkable, you might retweet it to share it with others.

You would start with RT (retweet) then @ followed by the name of the original tweeter, such as:

RT @joebloggs The highest form of compliment on Twitter is the retweet.

If you don’t put RT before the @name, you will only reply to the named person, and it’s likely that only they will see your message.

Sometimes, creating your own “Retweet” can be more personal than putting a RT in the front. For example:

Check out @joebloggs site – he’s at it again – http://tinyurl.example

Then, assuming someone else sees the retweet and wishes to pass it further, they would slap another @name into the retweet chain like so.

RT @janesmith @joebloggs The highest form of compliment on Twitter is the retweet.

Since a retweet is a form of approval, it is common courtesy to thank someone who retweets you. They are advertising you and your work for free and that should be appreciated.

If you have something you would like to spread the word about using “Please retweet me” seems to be very effective!