Create your account Settings|Design
com/ or
Go to http://www.twitter.com
Provide your full name, and then the username that
people will know you by. Either you own name, or
branding name. Also an email address (different for
each account), and a password.
Create your profile
Add friends via your email accounts if you wish. Next
follow some Twitter celebrities if you wish.
Settings|Account
Set your time zone and a URL for more information
about you; website, weblog, Facebook page etc. 1 line
biography of up to 160 characters; use descriptive
keywords if possible. Location: eg London, England, UK.
Language. Protect my tweets; unless there’s a really
good reason, do NOT tick this box.
Settings| Devices
If you are an O2/Vodaphone customer you can have
tweets sent directly to your phone. Ignore this for the
time being.
Settings|Notices
Set as appropriate.
Settings|Picture
A photograph or abstract image.
Incorporate images using http://www.twitpic.
http://www.yfrog.com/
Choose a preconfigured background or upload your own.
Details at http://bit.ly/3yloV0 Add images and audio using http://audioboo.fm/
Settings|Connections Add a poll using http://twtpoll.com/
Third party resources allowed to access your account. Search Twitter
Tweeting
“double quotes for phrase searching”
AND is assumed
Say what you want, up to 140 character limit, which will
NOT is by using the – (minus) symbol before a word
count down.
Address a specific tweet to/or identify a person by using
OR is supported as is nested logic eg (“Everton football
club” –liverpool) (media OR loan)
their @Twitter name eg On @Philbradley’s course.
Location search using NEAR:place within:15ml eg funfair
Respond to a specific tweet using the reply option or
near:Stockport within:15ml
favourite using the star above it.
Tweets that link to a subject filter:links subject
Check a persons retweets eg RT @philbradley
Send a private tweet (DM or direct message) using Tweets from a person from:philbradley
d username (lower case, no @)
Tweets to a person to:philbradley
Re-Tweet or repeat a message to your followers; copy
the message, and add RT@username at the start Since a date since:2009-09-15
Create a hashtag – a searchable term that others can use Until a date until 2009-09-14
simply by putting a # immediately before the word eg
With a positive attitude add :)
#cilip2
With a negative attitude add :(
Twitter will shorten URLs but you can use a service like
http://www.bit.ly instead. Asking a question add ?
 Third party clients
Desktop clients
Tweetdeck http://tweetdeck.com/ or Hootsuite
http://hootsuite.com/ or Twhirl http://www.twhirl.org/
Search engines
Monitter http://monitter.com/ for realtime search of 3
terms
Tweetscan http://www.tweetscan.com/ to search for a
term and refresh every 90 seconds
Tweepsearch http://tweepsearch.com/ search individual
biographies or your own followers
Twazzup http://www.twazzup.com/ for tweets,
photographs, links
Collecta http://www.collecta.com/ for realtime content
Picfog http://picfog.com/ for images (not always safe for
work)
Directories of users
Identify people to follow by seeing who people you
follow follow themselves. Also check out some
directories that will identify individuals for you.
British Librarians on Twitter http://tweepml.org/?t=1051
More British Librarians http://tweepml.org/?t=1203
Wefollow Librarians
http://wefollow.com/twitter/librarian
JustTweetit librarians http://bit.ly/7QzPV
Twitter analysis tools
Friend or Follow? http://friendorfollow.com/ Who are
you following and are they following you?
Twitter Grader http://twitter.grader.com/search
Measure the power and authority of your Twitter
profile
Twitterholic http://twitterholic.com/ Lots of
statistics about your user of the service
Twanalyst http://twanalyst.com/ What is your
Twitter personality?
MrTweet http://mrtweet.com/ find interesting
people based on your own interests
Promote your account
Widgets let you display Twitter updates on your website
or social network page using Twitter’s own resources at
http://twitter.com/widgets
20 Twitter badges to show off your tweets.
http://bit.ly/g4nhI
10 ways to integrate Twitter with your website
http://bit.ly/1tNds
Further information and resources
Phil Bradley’s Squidoo collection of Twitter resources for
librarians http://www.squidoo.com/twitter4librarians
Phil Bradley’s introduction to Twitter, including
screencasts http://www.philb.com/twitter.htm
Twitter for librarians: the ultimate guide
http://bit.ly/PuNRU
The Mashable Twitter Guidebook
http://mashable.com/guidebook/twitter/
Tweetiquette, Top 10 dos and don’ts http://bit.ly/13t9iQ
Using Twitter for business http://bit.ly/1s34f
25 ways to use Twitter in the classroom
http://bit.ly/oAPxI
Common Craft Twitter video
http://www.commoncraft.com/Twitter
Microblogging in practice (JISC)
http://bit.ly/bKW0m
Other microblogging resources
Yammer for Enterprise blogging
https://www.yammer.com/
Shout’em Create your own microblogging community
http://www.shoutem.com/
Edmodo private education microblogging
http://www.edmodo.com/
Identi.ca for friends and family http://identi.ca/
Thank you!
This cheatsheet was written by Phil Bradley
(philb@philb.com) and inspired by various other similar
cheatsheets. http://www.twitter.com/Philbradley