Twitter For Dummies, Pocket Edition

Introduction 1 About This Book 2 New for Pocket Edition 3 Foolish Assumptions 3 Icons Used in This Book 4 Chapter 1: Hello, Twitter World 5 Figuring Out This Twitter Thing 6 Signing Up 8 Picking a Name 16 Finding Contacts 18 Using useful people-finding tools 21 Searching by using Twitter Search 21 Inviting Contacts 23 Tweeting Like a Pro 26 Saying Hello! Your First Tweets 27 Chapter 2: Getting Your Tweet Wet 29 Finding People to Follow 30 Look who's talking 31 Searching for people 32 Using the Search Box 34 Inviting people personally, through Twitter 35 Checking out Twitter Lists 37 Following back 38 Following People 39 Replying to Tweets 40 Retweeting 42 Retweeting the old-fashioned way 42 Commentary on the retweet 43 Twitter Directories 44 Understanding Twitter Protocol 46 Deciphering language and abbreviations 48 Engaging others on Twitter 49 Tweeting frequency 50 Creating Lists 51 Following lists 54 Using geolocation 55 Erasing your tracks 56 Deciphering Twitter SMS Commands 57 Sending a direct message 57 Sending a follow message 58 Sending an @reply 59 Using On/Off commands 59 Making a tweet a favorite 59 Seeing stats 60 Using the Get command 60 Seeing profiles with Whois 60 Using Leave 61 Using On/Off username 61 Using Quit and Stop 61 Codes may come, and codes may go 62 Chapter 3: Flying Around the Interface 63 Starting Out on the Home Screen 64 The sidebar 66 The Tweet box 67 The Twitter stream 68 Tweeting to One Specific Person: @Replies 70 Sending Private Notes via Direct Messaging 73 Playing (Twitter) Favorites 75 Seeing Who You Follow 77 Who's Following Who? 79 Reviewing Your Tweets 80 You've Been Listed 84 The User Multi-Face: Interacting with Twitter Every Which Way85 Text messages (SMS delivery) 86 Desktop clients 88 Echofon 89 Widgets and gadgets 89 Preview: @Anywhere 90 Chapter 4: Twitter Minus Twitter.com 93 Tweeting with Your Cellphone 94 Via text messaging 94 Via smartphones or PDAs 96 Location! Location! Location! 97 Using Twitter through Your E-Mail 98 Swimming Your Stream with RSS Feeds 101 Grabbing RSS feeds 102 Sending RSS feeds back to Twitter 102 Chapter 5: Establishing Your Twitter Voice 105 Business or Pleasure? 106 Your business on Twitter 108 You as you on Twitter 109 Mixing business with pleasure 110 Identifying Your Audience 114 Viewing your network 115 Diversifying your network 116 Targeting specific networks 117 Measuring influence 118 Understanding your extended network 120 Keeping Your Tweets Authentic 121 Joining the conversation 122 Sharing links 122 Image is everything 124 Being genuine 125 Evangelizing your causes 127 Keeping Twitter Personal but Not Too Personal 127 Protecting personal details 129 Maximizing privacy and safety 130 Chapter 6: Ten Useful Twitter-Based Services 131 BreakingNews 132 StockTwits 132 Tweecious: Use Delicious to Organize the Links You Tweet 132 Tweetworks 133 ExecTweets 133 TweetGrid 134 LinkBunch 134 Tweetree 135 TwitterGrader 135 BLIP.fm 136