How to Twitter!

I didn't get Twitter.  I really don't need ANOTHER place to update - I use facebook!  But now thanks to TP, I think I do:

Twitter allows:
- Updating multiple places at the same time (Inc facebook, twitter, your website, ecademy etc - but not yet your ecademy status.  I think)
- Updating all of those using a text message from your mobile

Twittering allows:
(Twittering is the name for sending status updates - which are also called "tweets"!!  I think of them as micro Christmas letters to friends - rather than two pages a year, you get a sentence every few days)
- Sharing random thoughts "Tom is drinking coffee"
- Blatant REQUESTS for help "Tom wants you to give him tips on writing a business plan"
But also:
- Sharing what you're doing so people can OFFER to help "Tom is battling writing a business plan"

(For clarity: I'm not doing any of those things!)

Setting up Twitter & Facebook & a box you can stick on other sites:
- Sign up with Twitter (Easy)
- Go to "devices" and set it up with your mobile (That number is the number you text updates to!)
- Add 2 Facebook Apps: "fb2twit" and "twittersync" (Not "twitter" or you get "is twittering" in front!)
- In Facebook app "twittersync" set your "prepend verb" to "is" for it to work like I've described below
- As Thomas suggests, create a "badge" using this hidden link and add that code to your ecademy profile / website etc etc
- In your blog either add that "badge" code - or typepad has a "widget" to do it

Then send a text (minus the "tom is" bit) to the twitter number and it appears everywhere!  You can still update manually via facebook or twitter and it seems to work.

So if you send "having coffee"
- On Facebook it says "Tom Ball is having coffee"
- Elsewhere is says "having coffee"

Hope that's useful - not easy, is it!
T

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Comments

[Tom]

And yes, I know - BAD Tom for not updating my Blog for a year!

FYI This all started with an email from Thomas about a blog post here:
http://www.ecademy.com/node.php?id=102958

[Anne-Marie]

We twitter - our user name is brambleberry - and I still haven't figured out if it increases sales but it's very interesting to get insight into other CEO's lives.