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CONTENTS
1. Introduction - What is Twitter? .......................................................................................................5
So what exactly is Twitter? ..........................................................................................................6
Twitterer or Tweeter? .................................................................................................................7
2. What’s So Good about Twitter? ......................................................................................................8
3. Setting up your Twitter account for the first time ......................................................................... 10
4. How to Effectively Tweet.............................................................................................................. 14
Finding More Followers ............................................................................................................. 15
Publicising Your Twitter Username ............................................................................................ 17
Top Followed People on Twitter ................................................................................................ 19
Hashtags – what are they and why are they useful to you? ........................................................ 20
ReTweeting – how to do it and why other Tweeters value them ................................................ 21
Sending a Direct Message to another User ................................................................................ 22
Searching Twitter to Stay on Top of the Trends.......................................................................... 23
Maintaining Your Reputation on Twitter .................................................................................... 25
Cleaning up Your Twitter Account.............................................................................................. 26
Protected Updates Versus Public Updates – What’s Best? ......................................................... 29
5. Twitter Apps and Bots You Should Know About ............................................................................ 30
Desktop Apps ............................................................................................................................ 30
10 Twitter Bots You Might Want to Follow ................................................................................ 35
Other Useful Twitter Websites & Applications ........................................................................... 39
6. Twitter Tips & Tricks ..................................................................................................................... 45
Scheduling your Tweets for Later with SocialOomph ................................................................. 45
How to Automate New Followers .............................................................................................. 47
Some Funny Twitter Accounts to Follow .................................................................................... 49
Don’t miss out on our other cool manuals! ..................................................................................... 52

INTRODUCTION:  What is Twitter?
Twitter has come a long way since its inception in 2006. Back at the beginning, it was just a bunch of people telling the whole world what they were doing right at that very minute.

So you were subjected to banal messages such as “just had breakfast!” and “going out to work soon!”It was messages like these that really turned me off to Twitter when I first discovered it. The service was initially dismissed by some critics as “a platform for mediocrity” and at first I tended to agree with them. ...

Twitter for Dummies

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