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Getting Started on Twitter

Our round-up of “Getting Started on Twitter” guides ad resources:

HOW TO

Possibly my favorite is Tony Hsieh’s Beginners Quick Start Guide and Tutorial to using Twitter. Tony is @Zappos on Twitter, and the CEO of www.Zappos.com.

Caroline Middlebrook wrote The Big Juicy Twitter Guide

And Jennifer Laycock’s series From Twits to Tweeple, Why I Embraced Twitter and You Should Too is very helpful. She writes:

  • part one where I gave step by step directions on getting your Twitter account up and running,
  • part two where I explain how to send messages and take advantage of the Twitter follow/followers system and
  • part three, where I explained how Twitter can help you meet new people.
  • In part four, I looked at the traffic potential of Twitter and explained the value of retweets in making a link go viral.

Shel Israel put together 7 tips for new users,

Ellen Petry Leanse blogged her top 10 tips.

101 Twitter Resources from Traffikd

WHY TO

Twitter in Plain English by Lee LeFever and his team at Common Craft looks at a good beginner “use case” for Twitter. Really, there could be 25 different versions of this video, but you have to start somewhere.

Part Five of Jennifer Laycock’s series also makes a great case for the whys. As with most questions, I asked my Twitter community what guides they like:

My friend @GoldieKatsu created this 20-minute tutorial that covers setup through more advanced uses. And here are some other sources: Tom Humbarger’s Do You Twitter? Twutorials is a blog of short video tips.

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