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January 26, 2010

One Year Later: NOW Are You a Twit if You Still Don’t Tweet?

One year ago today, I wrote my very first post about Twitter. At the time, I said that, despite the ever-building buzz, I had my doubts about how important it really was to be on it. I listed five specific factors that made me question its value. Today I'm going to revisit each of those to see what has and hasn't changed—for Twitter and for me.
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Update Your Facebook Fan Page Status with TweetDeck

This morning, a reader contacted me because every time he updated his business page status line, the status line on his personal profile was also being updated.

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Reader Question: Shortening Your Links on Twitter

Reader Laura asked: I have sent url links to a friend a couple of times & they have not automatically shortened to tiny URLs so my tweet itself is next to nothing! Is there a setting I need to click or something?

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More Info About Facebook Privacy Controls Pt. 2

In my previous post, More Info About Facebook Privacy Controls Pt. 1, I provided some details and clarifications re. Facebook's current privacy settings that I had written about before. This post discusses three more topics related to FB privacy.

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Reader Question: Keeping on top of Twitter

Reader (and new Twitterer) Debbie recently sent me this question: How in the world do people stay current on twitter? I'm following some people who are also following 6,000-60,000 others. Huh? Do they only twitter all day? i don't understand how one can even spend an hour a day staying current on all that.
Any advice?

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Send Tweets to Facebook Using TweetDeck

In my earlier post, I explained how you can import your Twitter timelien to Facebook as well as send tweets from there by installing the Twitter application. When you do that, you also have the option of having your own tweets appear as a Facebook status update. If you're only interested in the latter feature, you can use the TweetDeck client to send tweets to both Twitter and Facebook at the same time.

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Twitter Basics (and More)

I've written a number of posts about Twitter previously. Here's a compilation of the ones that address some of the more common questions and problems.

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Reader Question: Keeping Track of Twitter Hash Tags

Reader Christy recently asked me how to get tweets marked with a specific hash tag to appear on her Twitter page.

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Reader Question re. Twitter: How To Retweet

Reader Melanie recently sent me this question:"I'm wondering whether there are etiquette rules around retweeting. I often see tweets I think my tweeps might enjoy but don't want to offend by doing it incorrectly."

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Manage Your Tweets with TweetDeck

Now that you've been spending some time on Twitter, figuring out how it all works, you're probably gathering more followers minute by minute. But even if you only have a few, if they're power-Twitterers, you may already be feeling a little overwhelmed trying to keep up with it all.

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