Introduction . 1 Welcome to All a Twitter .1 This Book Is Written by a User .1 This Book Focuses on Building a Community .2 This Book Is for Users of All Levels .2 This Book Follows a Logical Progression with Twitter .3 This Book Is Written in More Than 140 Characters .4 What to Expect from Here .
4 Going Beyond the Book .5 We''ll Always Have Twitter.5 Imagine That! Studios .6 Bird House Rules .6 1 What Is Twitter (and What It Is Not) . 7 A Brief History of Social Media .9 First Forums,Which Begat Blogging .9 Proceeding with Podcasting .
11 The Rise of Social Networking .13 What Is Twitter? .16 Twitter''s Role in Social Media .16 What It Does .17 What You Should Do to Make It Work .17 What Twitter Isn''t .19 Twitter Is Not a Chat Application .19 Twitter Is Not a Blog .
20 Twitter Is Not Like Facebook,MySpace, or Other Social Networks .22 2 Setting Up Twitter . 25 Registering on Twitter .25 Setting Up your Twitter Profile .29 What''s in a Name? (Quite a Bit, Actually!) .30 The Importance of a Good Avatar .32 Protecting Updates: The Good and the Bad .41 Making Twitter Your Own .
42 Changing Your Password .43 Receiving Tweets on Your Mobile Phone .43 Staying in the Loop .44 Giving Your Twitter Home a Redesign .44 Building the Network .46 Following Someone at Random on Twitter .47 Following Someone You Know on Twitter .47 Following Someone That''s Following You on Twitter .
48 3 Talking on Twitter . 49 Writing a "Tweet" .49 Editing Your Tweet .50 Posting Your Tweet .51 Following Followers .53 Following @Mentions .54 Replying to a Tweet .55 Replying to a Direct Message .
57 Your Twitter Archives .59 Your Favorites .59 4 Working Beyond the Website . 63 Twitterific .64 Installation and Setup of Twitterific .64 What I Like About Twitterific .67 What I Don''t Like About Twitterific .67 DestroyTwitter .
69 Installation and Setup of DestroyTwitter .70 What I Like About DestroyTwitter .74 What I Don''t Like About DestroyTwitter .74 Twhirl .76 Installation and Setup of Twhirl .77 What I Like About Twhirl .80 What I Don''t Like About Twhirl .82 TweetDeck .
83 Installation and Initial Setup of TweetDeck .84 Setting Up Groups in TweetDeck .85 What I Like About TweetDeck .88 What I Don''t Like About TweetDeck .90 5 Terrific Twitter Tools . 93 Mr.Tweet .93 Starting with Mr.
Tweet .94 Shorten URL Services .98 Is.gd .98 SnipURL .100 Twitter Tools for WordPress .102 Installing Twitter Tools .102 Configuring Twitter Tools .
103 TwitPic .107 Uploading Pictures on TwitPic .108 Using TwitPic with Twitter Clients .108 6 Tracking Twitter . 111 Twitter Search .112 Bit.ly .115 TweetStats .
116 Twitalyzer .120 Hashtags .123 7 Twitter to Go . 127 Twitter for the BlackBerry .128 Blackbird .129 Twibble .