With the number of active Twitter users growing over 900% in 2008, a rising wave of new users and companies have been signing up for Twitter accounts. Our round up of great beginner’s guides is now more relevant than ever.
Official Resources
- Twitter Help
- Twitter’s Getting Started Guide
- Twitter’s How-To Guides
- Twitter’s Troubleshooting Guides
How To
- Beginners Quick Start Guide and Tutorial to using Twitter, by Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh aka @Zappos.
- 10 Easy Steps for Twitter Beginners by Twitip.com. Nov 2008
- The Big Juicy Twitter Guide by Caroline Middlebrook
- From Twits to Tweeple, Why I Embraced Twitter and You Should Too by Jennifer Laycock
- 7 tips for new users by Shel Israel
- Top 10 Twitter tips by Ellen Petry
Why To
- Pistachio’s own Twitter story by Shel Israel
- Twitter is My Village by Pistachio
- Twitter Makes Us More by Pistachio
- Ode to Twitter by Pistachio
- Why Twitter? by Jennifer Laycock (Part 5 of her series).
Videos
Twitter in Plain English by Lee LeFever and his team at Common Craft looks at a good beginner “use case” for Twitter.
My friend @GoldieKatsu created this 20-minute tutorial that covers setup through more advanced uses.
Twutorials is a blog of short video tips.
Other Indexes
- 101 Twitter Resources, by Traffikd.com. Published May 2008
- Do You Twitter? by Tom Humbarger
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