0 Twitter Stick to 140 Characters

You have to stick to 140 characters, right ?  That's  all give you, and they do it for a good reason. Being starved of space stops with waffling and sparks your creativity. It's what  Twitter is all about.

Well, yes and no.

Twitter give you 140 characters because that's all that can fit through SMS  systems. If mobile phone companies could handle message of  200 characters  then  that's  probably  how  long our tweets  would  be.

Even though the limit is fairly arbitary, it  does make sense to keep to it as much as possible.

The alternative is to show half-complete tweets and offer links for people to continue reading or break messages up so that they're  sent for  several tweets. There are even services such as  TwitLonger that allow people to post  messages  as long as they like with the first 140 characters appearing as tweet.


You can see all of these things happening sometimes on Twitter, and they rarely look good. Readers expect the content on Twitter to be small. They expect to be able to read and absorb it in one bite. These are content snacks, not three course meals with coffee.

Writing a  thought that takes more than 140 characters and  spreading it over three or four tweets is giving people more than they want. It also makes you look like you're  dominating the conversation.


Chat with a friend, and you' will take turns speaking. You''ll speak your friend will respond, and then you''ll continue. Keep talking without giving your friend chance to offer his response and you'' start to sound rude.


Multiple tweets can have the same  effect upon Twitter.


Again this doesn't mean you you should never break up a long tweet. And it certainly doesn't mean  that you shouldn't post one tweet after another.


What does it mean is that you should be aware of the effect  you can create in timeline when you do either.

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0 Twitter Rank and Page Rank

So there are all sorts of strategies that you can use to build up your follower list. But the number next to your follower list is just one measure of success on Twitter .

No less important and perhaps even more important is the extent to which you are the focus of conversation.

Because Twitter   is like a giant open chat,  the more people who reply to your tweets, the more influential your posts. It's great sign that people are interested in what you have to say and want to take part in the discussion.

That;s the theory at least, behind  Tweetrank ( tweetrank.net ) a service  that uses the number of incoming replies to give each Twitterer a score that is supposed to represent their popularity. The theory is similar to Google's page rank, which rates the importance of web sites based,  among other things,  on the number and quality of incoming links the site receives.

Tweetrank.net lets you see your own score, and you can toss in the usernames of Twitterers to see their scores too.

The real question of course, is how useful this stuff is . The service was  created as a bit of fun. Unlike Google's page rank, Tweetrank isn't going to affect where you turn up in search results or how much traffic you're likely to receive.

It certainly won't affect the amount of money you receive in advertising revenues.

You might consider it as any one way to measure how well you're managing to motivate discussions in comparison to other Twitterers. You can also take a look at the list of the top 50 Twitterers to see what they' re doing to get those replies coming in. For many , it seems to consist of being a well-known mover and shaker off Twitter     as much as the type of tweets they're posting.

Interesingly, though, tweets also receive page ranks.

Paste a tweet into Google and you'll find that it's been indexed in the search engine.

My suspicion is that this works the same way as any Web Page. Since I have links going to my Twitter page from other authority sites, Google raises the page rank of my Twitter page and the value of my outgoing links. Whether that's worth anything to me is hard to say. I can't imagine that anyone going to look for a tweet from me on Google, and trying to target keywords so that your Twitter page will turn up at the top of  search rankings is unlikely to be worth the effort.
 But it is an increasing quirk of Twitter.

Creating a long list of followers is always going to be one of the most important tasks that you do on Twitter.  It's a challenge that requires first deciding what kind of followers you want an audience that's niched and mostly targeted, one that's large but general, or a balanced combination of the two.


It will then involve a great deal of following and reading. You;'ll have to reply to tweets that other people have posted, place tweets of your own, and track down the people you know and would like to know on the site.


It's a process that takes time. While there are strategies to make that process faster and I discussed several of them  in this and no one builds a four, five or six-figure follower list overnight.


That's because , above all, creating a large following on  Twitter requires writing good tweets the kind that people actually want to read and which make them feel that you're going to have more good information for them in the future.


That's what i have said in my this tutorial. Hope its Worth for all :))

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0 Tweeting with your Mobile Phone

The last thing you should do before you start sending  tweets is to set up your mobile phone.

Twitter   began with mobiles in mind, so it's not too surprising that while you can have a lot of fun and a  lot of benefits with Twitter just using your computer , being able to  send and receive tweets from your mobile phone makes the whole experience so much better.

You can send out an update while waiting for your meal in a restaurant, while you're standing in line at the DMV. or while you're sitting in the audience at a conference  listening to a speaker and  sharing what you're hearing with your followers.

It makes the whole thing so much more convenient , and it means that you're much less likely to forget to update.

To send and receive tweets  on your mobile, press the Devices tab under "Settings" enter your phone number and click the check box that allows your to receive tweets on your phone as SMS messages.

You'll then receive a code. Send that Code to 40404 in the US, 21212 in Canada,  49 17 6888 50505 in Germany, 46 737 494222 in Sweden,  5566511 in India or + 44 7624 801423 everywhere else, and your phone will be set up to send and receive tweets. Vodafone subscribers in the UK can also tweet by texting to 86444.

Because you've agreed to receive tweets on your mobile,  through, you are at risk. When  you're following lots of people and to build up followers, you will  need to follow lots of people your phone will be going off the time.

So before you start following people, send the word "stop" or  "quit" from your mobile phone to Twitter's number. That will leave your phone set up to send messages but stop you receiving  messages.


Later, you can choose to follow selected Twitterers  by sending the message "onusername" (e.g on bholus") so that only the Twitterers you feel are the most important turn up in your phone.


That's just one of a bunch of a useful commands that you can send to Twitter from your mobile phone once it's set up to send and receive tweets,. (see image above)

And that's it !!

Once you've done that, you're ready to send your first tweet.

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0 It’s no laughing matter! for twitter users

Twitter users present cybercriminals a huge potential opportunity to hatch and launch spam and phishing attacks. 

According to Twitter’s analytics team, tweets have grown to 50 million daily versus five thousand daily in 2007. Even a small fraction of users who fall for these attacks can prove to be lucrative for criminals. 

Twitter members were receiving messages such as “LOL. This is me??” or “LOL. This you?” On clicking these phrases users were linked to China-based Twitter log-in pages. Those who provided their log-in information had their private information harvested for later misuse by these cybercriminals.

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