OK so I got a little anxious and searched out some Twitter tools that you can use with your WordPress Blog.  We haven’t tried all of these on OIBO – but have tried them on some other blogs we work on (guess).

Here are a few links to sites that have done a much better job on reviewing some Twitter tools…

TechTreak.com has a list of 10 awesome Twitter tools – you may want to check these tools out by visiting http://www.techtreak.com/2008/09/16/10-awesome-twitter-tools-as-wordpress-plugins/

ProfitBlogger has some great tools as well – in fact, they’ve got a list of 23 Twitter plugins for WordPress – pay them a visit at http://www.profitblogger.com/twitter-plugins-for-wordpress/

Of course, how could we miss Mashable?  Look right here… http://mashable.com/2009/01/12/tweetsuite/

If we get some time over the next few weeks, we may take a look at these tools and give you a better review of some of the better one.

Robert

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Hi,

So just what the heck is Twitter, and how can YOU use Twitter in your business?

Twitter markets themselves as “a service for friends, family, and co–workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: What are you doing?“

So Twitter is like your SMS service.  Twitter allows you to send 140 character text messages to others that you invite or individuals that follow you.  The difference with Twitter is that if you have 100 people that are following you via the website using your custom URL (mine is http://www.twitter.com/oibo), IM or mobile device – when you update your page, they are updated as well.  So EVERYONE gets the message, not just the one person on your SMS.

I created a Twitter account:

Just click on the honkin’ BIG green button…

Enter some basic information — good to see that they don’t want my life history in order to open an account.

Nah… I hate giving anyone, or any service access to my e-mail account.  Sorry!  Click on the SKIP – waaaaaay down there on the bottom right, just above the number 3.

I’m done!  Now what???

Here is an excellent video entitled Twitter in Plain English that will show you exactly what Twitter is all about.

A few more resources for you:

• http://twitter.pbwiki.com/ - unofficial Twitter WiKi
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter - Twitter on WikiPedia
• http://www.pbs.org/mediashift/2007/05/for_the_uberconnectedyour_guid.html
• http://publishing2.com/2007/12/11/why-i-stopped-using-twitter/ - excellent post!
• http://searchengineland.com/070410-181328.php - can it really help generate traffic?
• http://www.seobook.com/are-you-using-twitter-yet

If you still don’t get twitter – don’t worry, neither do I. 

Regards,

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