Twitter Tips and Tricks
Twitter is a great tool that allows you to post updates and network with people. You can post updates via instant messenger, sms, the twitter site, or from any of the twitter clients that are available. It is a great concept; follow a bunch of people, when ever they update, you get a notification of the update.
How do you twitter?
There are many ways to twitter. You can post updates via sms, twitter’s website, instant messenger, or one of the twitter clients available. My personal favorite is instant messenger.
At first I tried twittering via SMS; it was a great idea until people started updating more often. Getting hundreds of text messages per day gets annoying! My favorite way to twitter is via GTalk. This is great because I get updates as they occur via instant messages. I also use Gtalk on my phone, so when I’m away from my desk, updates are sent directly to the gtalk client on my blackberry.
Twitter Tips and Commands
To start receiving updates, simply send on and you will instantly start receiving updates from the people you follow. To stop receiving updates send off
On - turns on twitter updates
Off - turns off twitter updates
If you’d like to get a person’s last update, simply sent get username (username being the person’s username) So if you wanted to my last update, you’d send get royalradande
Get username - gets the person’s last update
To follow people on twitter, simply use the follow username command. Once you follow someone, you will automatically start receiving updates from that person. For example, to follow me on twitter, send follow royalradande.
To stop following someone and no longer receive their updates, send leave username.
Follow username - follow a person on twitter and receive their updates
Leave username - stop following a person and stop receiving their updates
Other Commands
Stats - shows you statistics about your twitter account. Such as the number of people you follow and are following and also the words you’re tracking.
Track Keyword - when you track something on twitter, you will receive a message when ever an update contains the keyword you’re tracking. You do not need to be following a person to track keywords. So for instance, if I wanted to track my name, Jonathan Radande, I would send track jonathan radande, and when ever anyone using twitter included the words jonathan radande in their messages, I’d get updated.
Similarly, you can stop tracking keywords by sending untrack keyword.
Direct Messaging
Sometimes there’s a need to send direct messages. When you send a direct message, nobody but the person you’re sending it to receive it. You can only send direct messages to people who are currently following you. To send a direct message send D username message. This will send a direct message to the user.
These are all the twitter commands I know. If you know of more commands, feel free to comment.
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