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    The Little Book of Twitter: Get Tweetwise!
    The Little Book of Twitter: Get Tweetwise!
    The Little Book of Twitter: Get Tweetwise!
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    The Little Book of Twitter: Get Tweetwise!

    By Tim Collins

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    Tell us what you're doing in 140 characters or less: that's the basic premise of Twitter, and it's taken the world by storm. There are now millions of Tweeters, who update their status and follow the statuses of others on a daily basis, including such well-known names as Stephen Fry, Boris Johnson, Jonathan Ross and Barack Obama. Twitter has been transformed from a nerdy pastime of computer geeks to an international phenomenon. In The Little Book of Twitter, Tim Collins will give you all the information you need to get up to speed and become a bona fide Tweeter, including: how to get started; the weirdest and wittiest Twitter feeds; the netiquette of Twitter; the best celebrity Tweeters; and, tweeting at work. Your shortcut to the world of Twitter, The Little Book of Twitter's accessible and humorous style will have you Tweeting with the good and the great in no time.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMichael O'Mara
    Release dateJul 31, 2012
    ISBN9781843178293
    The Little Book of Twitter: Get Tweetwise!
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    Tim Collins

    Tim Collins worked as a copywriter in advertising before becoming a full-time author. He writes nonfiction books for adults and children’s fiction books, including books designed to appeal to reluctant readers. His work has been translated into forty languages. His books have won numerous awards including the Manchester Fiction City award and the Lincolnshire Book award. He is originally from Manchester but now lives in London.

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      The Little Book of Twitter - Tim Collins

      Copyright

      First published in Great Britain in 2009 by

      Michael O’Mara Books Limited

      9 Lion Yard

      Tremadoc Road

      London SW4 7NQ

      Copyright © Michael O’Mara Books Limited 2009

      This electronic edition published in 2012

      ISBN: 978-1-84317-829-3 in ePub format

      ISBN: 978-1-84317-828-6 in Mobipocket format

      ISBN: 978-1-84317-405-9 in paperback print format

      Every reasonable effort has been made to acknowledge all copyright holders. Any errors or omissions that may have occurred are inadvertent, and anyone with any copyright queries is invited to write to the publishers, so that a full acknowledgement may be included in subsequent editions of this work.

      All rights reserved. You may not copy, store, distribute, transmit, reproduce or otherwise make available this publication (or any part of it) in any form, or by any means (electronic, digital, optical, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise), without the prior written permission of the publisher. Any person who does any unauthorized act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages.

      A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.

      Cover design by Allan Sommerville

      Design and typesetting by Sailesh Patel

      www.mombooks.com

      Contents

      Title

      Copyright

      Acknowledgements

      Foretweet

      Introduction

      Everything you need to know about Twitter in ten tweets

      How to tweet

      How do you want to use Twitter?

      The netiquette of Twitter

      Ten reasons why Twitter is the best social networking site

      Tweologisms

      Other jargon

      Abbreviations you might see

      How to decide if you want to follow someone back

      Tweet yourself clever

      You know you’re a twitterholic when . . .

      Tweeting from your phone

      Celebrity tweets

      Twitter celebrity scandals

      The strangest twittersonas

      Ten other accounts worth following

      The ten commandments of Twitter

      Marketing on Twitter

      Tweeter’s block

      Twitter tools

      Ten types of Twitter twat

      Further uses for Twitter

      The ten social networking sites they should create next

      Acknowledgements

      Thanks to Collette Collins, Emily Dent,

      Kathryn Partridge, Lindsay Davies,

      Kerry Chapple, Ana Sampson and Louise Dixon.

      Thanks also to @ljrich for her

      helpful Twitter know-how.

      For more info, tweet @OMaraBooks or @TheLittleBookOf.

      Foretweet

      Twitter is a social networking site with a 140-character limit, which means that you don’t have to put up with long-winded sentences like th

      Introduction

      On Tuesday the 3rd of February 2009, Stephen Fry got stuck in a lift. At first, this might not have seemed like a generation-defining event on a par with the Kennedy assassination and the moon landing. But this is how future generations will probably remember it, because this was the moment when Twitter went mainstream. Tweeting to his followers on his phone, Fry turned a mundane inconvenience into a gripping drama with updates such as ‘Hell’s teeth’ and ‘Arse, poo and widdle’. The next day, Fry’s updates, and the responses of his hundreds of thousands of followers, were reported in newspapers and on websites around the world.

      It was at this moment that Twitter became the social networking platform we were all supposed to know about. Suddenly, Facebook and MySpace seemed about as fashionable as bright green shellsuits, and admitting that you didn’t know what a tweet was was like admitting you didn’t know where babies came from.

      In a state of panic, we all signed up to Twitter, worried that the zeitgeist train would leave without us and we’d be left with less technological relevancy than an old man buying cassettes from a charity shop.

      The first reaction of many upon seeing the site was relief. There were no zombie applications, no gifts, no terrible music and no embedded junk to crash our browsers. Instead, there were ‘tweets’; mini-updates of no more than 140 characters. Twitter was a site that understood a fundamental truth about our modern online requirements – less is more. We live in times of cultural overload, where we’re all required to be familiar with so many albums, books, movies, blogs, DVD box sets, games, Blu Rays and iPhone apps that it’s a wonder we have time to sleep. The last thing we need is another essential cultural phenomenon that will eat even further into our waking moments. But updates of about twenty words? Yeah, we can probably fit that in.

      Going on Facebook is like attending a school reunion where all the people you used to sit next to in maths poke you and wave embarrassing photos in your face. Going on MySpace is like visiting a hall of residence where every single room is inhabited by douchebags who think that writing tortured acoustic songs will impress the girls. But Twitter is more like a dinner party that you can invite anyone to, from your best friend to the editor of your favourite magazine to Snoop Dogg. It’s pretty much the only social networking site you’d want to visit in real life.

      So, welcome to the twitterverse. Whether you’re a twittern00b or a twitterholic, I hope you’ll find this guide to be a fitting celebration of what is undoubtedly the greatest social networking service in the world. (Until they invent one that restricts updates to ten characters and we all flock to that one instead.)

      ‘Twitter makes me smarter, faster and more efficient. I want to do that for millions of people.’

      Evan Williams, CEO of Twitter

      Everything you need to know about Twitter in ten tweets

      Welcome to The Little Book of Twitter, a

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