Twitter Tips: Adding the Twitter Application to Facebook Profile

On the surface, Facebook, while ostensibly a member of the same social networking club as Twitter, is a social horse of a different color. You can post photos and videos that people can comment on; you can write on a friend’s wall; you can join groups; and you’re free to encrust your profile...
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Twitter tips: Adding a “Tweet This” link to Web site

A great way to get the word out about your Web site or some content on your site is to get people to tweet about it. The problem is that it requires quite a few steps to construct a tweet about a site or page. Here are the general procedures:  1.  Navigate to the page and copy...
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Twitter tips: Displaying a badge that shows total followers

If you have a successful Twitter account that’s amassed a sizable following, you might feel like bragging about it. I don’t mean that you should cover the top of your page with a massive banner that shouts out your total follower ship. Please don’t do that. I’m talking here about something...
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Twitter Tips: Adding Twitter Bling to Your Web Site

Now that you’re well established on Twitter and you’re tweeting away with your 140-character-or-less observations, ideas, and updates, it’s time to fly your Twitter flag. If you have a blog, personal home page, or other Web site where you live your online life outside of Twitter, you should...
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Twitter tips:Search Engines and Tools TweetScan Twitterfall TweetGrid BackTweets TweetVolume etc

Integrating search into the main interface shows the newfound importance of search to the Twitter powers that be. However, there’s another sign that mining Twitter for tweet gold is becoming a big thing: the existence of a large and ever-increasing collection of Web sites that extend...
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Twitter Tips: 7 things you should know about.Twitter

Scenario Edward, an instructional technologist in Ohio, was gen-erally familiar with Daniel’s research on active learning at his institution in California, but when they met at a conference and had an opportunity to talk, they real-ized their separate research projects had considerable synergy.Daniel’s...
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Twitter Tips: Translating a search result to English

Twitter is a pleasingly global phenomenon, with tweeters tweeting from dozens of countries around the world. Chances are the people you follow write in English, but you never know what language might bubble up when you’re searching, particularly in the new interface, which doesn’t have...
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Twitter Tips: Marking a search result as a favorite

You’ll often come across useful or fun tweets in your search results, but what happens when one day you stumble upon a perfect pearl of a tweet that not only scratches whatever itch caused you to perform the search in the first place, but that you know you’ll refer to again and again?...
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Twitter Tips: Using a feed to monitor search results

Some searches are one-time-only deals where you run your search, check the results, and then return to whatever you were doing. Sometimes, however, you want to run the same search frequently. For example, you might want to know whenever a tweeter talks about a particular product or service,...
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Twitter Tips: Sending your search results as a tweet

When you’re searching the Twitter landscape, you might come upon some sight or landmark that’s particularly striking, so much so that you want to share your discovery with the people who follow you. That’s very nice of you. How you go about doing that depends, yet again, on which search...
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Twitter Tips: Adding Twitter Search to Firefox

Adding Twitter Search to the Firebox Search box is quite a bit easier than with Internet Explorer.  Here’s all you have to do:  1.  Navigate to the Twitter search page.  2.  Pull down the Search box menu, as shown in figure 6.24.  3.  Click Add “Twitter Search.”...
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Twitter Tips: Adding Twitter Search to Internet Explorer

By default, Internet Explorer’s Search box uses the Windows Live search engine. If you want to get Twitter in there, you need to create what’s called a custom search provider .  Here are the steps to follow:  1.  Navigate to the Twitter search page.  2.  Run a search...
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Twitter Tips: Locating Tweets that Contain Links

For many Twitter fans, the most important tweets are the ones that contain links to other sites, because they’re often the most interesting, the most useful, or the most fun. So it’s great that the Twitter search engine includes an option that lets you specify that it should only return...
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Twitter Tips: Finding Tweets by Date

As I write, today Twitter is celebrating its third birthday, so you’ll have more than three years’ worth of tweets to search by the time you read this. That’s a decent chunk of time, but you’d never know it from the search results because they’re always sorted by when the tweets were...
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Twitter Tips: Searching for tweets by location

If you use a Twitter client on a mobile device that includes a global positioning system (GPS) sensor, chances are that the client can use that information to update your Twitter location information. For example, the iPhone clients Twittelator Pro, Tweetie, and Twitterific...
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Twitter Tips: Searching for tweets that mention a person

Reply tweets always begin with @username , but plenty of tweets mention users by including @ username  somewhere within the tweet text. It could be a retweet, a shout out to someone, an acknowledgment of an original post, a FollowFriday recommendation, or whatever. For...
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Twitter Tips: Searching for tweets from a person.

Running an advanced people search Although most of your Twitter searching expeditions will scour tweet text for matching posts, it’s also useful to search based on people. For example, you might want to see all the posts sent by a user, all the posts sent to a user, or all the posts...
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