Twitter Bible: Everything You Need To Know About Twitter

Twitter: Getting Started

Twitter: How to Get Started Guide for Business People

Don’t understand what all the Twitter fuss is about or why you might want to use this social networking tool? You’re not alone, but you may be missing out on useful information and professional connections. Check out our guide on how and why to get started with Twitter.

How and Why to Launch a Business Presence on Twitter

From an upstart airline to the cable company some people love to hate, organizations big and small have reaped success in improving customer service, receiving R&D tips, and marketing their products on Twitter. Here’s expert advice on how and why your business should tap into Twitter.

Twitter’s New Home Page: A Better Start for Beginners

Twitter launched a new welcome page that places a greater emphasis on search, to help new users get acclimated. The site also discarded the “what are you doing?” moniker that sold Twitter’s mission short.

The New Twitter: What’s Good and What’s Missing

Twitter rolled out a richer interface for users Tuesday — but did not include two features users have long sought. Here’s a first look at what you’ll get in the new Twitter and what you won’t.

Twitter: Tips and Tricks

3 URL Shortener Sites That Do More Than Save Space

URL shortening sites can do for more you than just save space on Twitter. These three free services help you track who’s clicking and other relevant statistics.

LinkedIn Quick Tip: Find and Follow Your LinkedIn Connections on Twitter

A new LinkedIn feature bridges the gap between your LinkedIn connections and your Twitter followers. Here are step-by-step instructions for getting started.

Twitter Tips: 5 Ways to Find Relevant Followers

Cutting through Twitter’s noise can be tricky, so check out these five tools to help you build a more meaningful following.

Twitter Tips: 4 Ways to Revisit Your Twitter “Firsts”

Ever wonder what your first tweet was? Or who your first followers were? Check out these tools to take a Twitter trip down memory lane — or search for old tweets.

How to Use Twitter to Network at Conferences: 5 Tips

Even if you’re shy, you can use Twitter to maximize networking opportunities at your next conference. Check out our tips on how to build buzz, be remembered and be valued.

Twitter Tips: Enabling Mobile Notifications; Essential Shortcuts

Tweeting on the go? Here are a handful of essential Twitter mobile shortcuts and two ways to receive SMS notifications.

Twitter, LinkedIn Get Together: How to Get Started

LinkedIn and Twitter have hooked up to let you publish updates to both services at once. Here are step-by-step instructions for getting TwinkedIn.

5 Free Tools to Spring Clean Your Twitter Account

Which of your Twitter contacts have abandoned the service? Which are spammers? These five free tools weed out deadbeat users and help you organize your account.

Got Twitter Clout? New Tools Rate You

Are you a Twitter star, tweeting up a storm and being followed by many influential people — or are you a whale of a fail? New tools let you, and others, judge your Twitter influence level. Here’s a look at how you’re being ranked.

Twitter Etiquette: Five Dos and Don’ts

Twitter beginners need to understand the rules of etiquette for the service. So before you stick a foot measuring 140-characters-or-less in your mouth, check out our advice on how to follow and un-follow, share politely, direct message appropriately, and more.

How to Use Twitter to Job Hunt

If you’re just using LinkedIn to job hunt, you’re missing out on the power of Twitter. Here’s expert advice on how to tweet your way to new contacts and opportunities.

Twitter Tips: How to Write Better Tweets

Twitter’s 140-character message format demands concise, engaging writing, and that’s a skill that a lot of people just don’t have. Here’s advice to help you engage your followers and avoid common tweet writing blunders.

Twitter Tips: How And Why To Use Hashtags (#)

Hashtags, a shorthand system developed by Twitter users to help categorize Tweets, can save you time and keep your tweets organized. Here’s a quick guide for finding and using hashtags.

How to Write a Twitter Policy for Your Employees

Twitter makes it easier than ever to share information and interact with your customers and peers. But giving your employees some rules for the road will make it easier for them to tweet freely and without career fear, while protecting your company.

How to Find Job Posts on Twitter

Many recruiters and some employers have begun posting job openings on Twitter. But knowing how to get what you want from Twitter’s search tool, and sorting through hashtags (#) assigned to job posts, can be tricky. CIO.com spoke with career experts to get their take on how to find the jobs you want.

How to Catch Up After a Few Days Away

It’s good to disconnect from the Twitter-verse for a while, but then how do you reconnect? Clicking “more” at the bottom of your homepage gets old in a hurry. Here are some catch-up strategies.

Twitter: Apps and Add-Ons

15 Free Enterprise Collaboration Tools

Whether your business is looking to start small or go big, many free tools can help jumpstart your enterprise collaboration efforts. Here’s a look at 15 of the best — some old, some new, some basic and some robust.

Top 10 Twitter Lists for Techies

Twitter Lists help you organize the people whom you follow into groups that are shareable with others. Here are 10 of our favorite lists helpful to every techie.

LinkedIn Quick Tip: Find and Follow Your LinkedIn Connections on Twitter

A new LinkedIn feature bridges the gap between your LinkedIn connections and your Twitter followers. Here are step-by-step instructions for getting started.

Twitter, LinkedIn Get Together: How to Get Started

LinkedIn and Twitter have hooked up to let you publish updates to both services at once. Here are step-by-step instructions for getting TwinkedIn.

5 Free Tools to Spring Clean Your Twitter Account

Which of your Twitter contacts have abandoned the service? Which are spammers? These five free tools weed out deadbeat users and help you organize your account.

8 Must-Have Facebook and Twitter Add-Ons

You can solve several of your top gripes with Twitter and Facebook by using free, downloadable tools. For those days when you see the glass as half-empty, one tool tracks when people “unfriend” you.

How To Search Twitter Smarter

Once you’re actively using Twitter, you may feel unable to keep up with all the messages of value. But you can learn to search them. From hashtags to smiley faces, here are our tips on how to search Twitter to get more value from it.

TweetDeck App Gets You Organized, Automated

The handy, free TweetDeck app will help you organize personal and business Tweets, automate coordination with Facebook, and more. Here are instructions on how and why to get started with TweetDeck.

How to Find Experts in Your Industry

Twitter’s value depends heavily on your finding useful people to follow. So how do you locate the leaders in your profession? Use these easy steps to success.

How to Track Retweets

Stop wondering if that great Tweet that your wrote got retweeted widely, and start measuring your retweets. Here’s how.

For Twitter, URL Shorteners Do More Than Save Space

Several free services will shorten URLs for sharing on Twitter, but they’re not all created equal. Here’s how to not only save space, but also use analytics features to understand what content matters most to your followers.

Twitter for Marketing

Got Twitter Clout? New Tools Rate You

Are you a Twitter star, tweeting up a storm and being followed by many influential people — or are you a whale of a fail? New tools let you, and others, judge your Twitter influence level. Here’s a look at how you’re being ranked.

The Four Biggest Mistakes Businesses Make on Twitter

Is your business suffering from Twitter neglect? Get your brand back on track by recognizing these four common errors and revitalizing your social strategy.

Salesforce.com Integrates Twitter to Cloud Services Offering

When it comes to social media, Salesforce.com leads rivals like Oracle and SAP, and its success could help your company reach customers. Case in point: Salesforce.com apps now work with social networking services like Twitter and Facebook.

Twitter for Business: Four Ways Companies Use Microblogging

Having a good dialogue with users of Twitter, the microblogging service, requires being personable and avoiding too much corporate marketing jargon.

Five Best Twitter Apps to Manage a Company Account

If your company has its own Twitter account, your team can manage it better using third-party apps. Here we highlight five of the best Twitter apps for handling multiple users, search, scheduling and tracking tweets and more.

Twitter: Alternatives for the Enterprise

15 Free Enterprise Collaboration Tools

Whether your business is looking to start small or go big, many free tools can help jumpstart your enterprise collaboration efforts. Here’s a look at 15 of the best — some old, some new, some basic and some robust.

Twitter Alternatives That Are All Business

Microblogging, or short-form text updates via the Web, has become a hot trend for enterprises that want to help employees share information internally. Here’s a look at how three businesses are using Twitter alternatives for microblogging, plus best practices for implementing it.

12 Microblogging Tools to Consider

Looking for business-friendly alternatives to Twitter? Check out these options.

Socialtext 3.0: Bringing Twitter-Like Experience to Enterprise

Socialtext, a Palo Alto company that made its mark building wikis for the enterprise, has added a social networking application for businesses and a microblogging tool akin to Twitter.

Case Study: Bringing the Twitter-like Experience to the Enterprise

Learning from the success people have had on Twitter, the short messaging service, a public affairs firm has begun using enterprise microblogging technology from Socialtext. It mirrors the Twitter experience, but for the purposes of internal, enterprise collaboration.

New Enterprise Microblogging Tool, Socialtext Signals

New standalone Socialtext Signals product lets enterprise employees communicate in a real-time stream about projects, documents and other items. Think of it as Twitter for just your team.

Mobile

Twitter Tips: Enabling Mobile Notifications; Essential Shortcuts

Tweeting on the go? Here are a handful of essential Twitter mobile shortcuts and two ways to receive SMS notifications.

Best (Free) Mobile Twitter Apps for BlackBerry, iPhone, Windows Mobile

Twitter lets you share details on whatever you’re doing. But how many truly interesting activities happen in front of a PC? Thanks to these seven mobile Twitter apps for BlackBerry, iPhone and Windows Mobile devices, wherever your smartphone goes, Twitter can follow.

Free “Tweet Tone” for BlackBerry Twitter Apps

Never miss a Twitter “tweet,” reply or direct message with this new, free “Tweet tone.” Here’s how to download, save and assign it to your favorite BlackBerry Twitter application.

UberTwitter BlackBerry Twitter App Fiasco: Lessons Learned from “Failed” Update

Popular free BlackBerry Twitter application UberTwitter got an update to beta v4 recently. But along with a handful of new features and software enhancements, users also saw a crop of advertisements strewn throughout their Twitter streams for the first time. UberTwitter has since removed the ads, which angered many users. It serves as a cautionary tale for developers who hope to monetize their apps.

Top 10 BlackBerry Apps for Summer: TweetGenius

TweetGenius is one of the most full-featured and good-looking mobile Twitter apps on the market. Check your Friends Timeline, @ Mentions and Direct Messages with a single click from the home screen. View the Public Timeline, search all of Twitter and more. But TweetGenius’s real strength is its stunning and unique UI.

Mobile Twitter Game Heats Up; Oprah, Ashton Kutcher Fan the Flames

Twitter has seen a drastic spike in popularity thanks to the support of a number of high-profile celebrities like Kelso–ahem, Ashton Kutcher–and the Queen Bee of Middle America, Oprah Winfrey. Along with all the newfound interest come a number of crafty software developers hoping to cash in on the mass hilarity with new, feature-packed Twitter applications and services for smartphones that let you tweet from anywhere there’s cellular connectivity.

Twitter At the Heart of New, Cheap Smartphones

Mobile phone outfit INQ Mobile has launched two low-cost smartphones that feature tight integration with Twitter.

Twitter’s Potential for Business Users

Watching the emergence of Twitter, a microblogging tool that allows people to post updates in 140 characters or less, business and technology leaders are beginning to think about how the Twitter could be used in their organizations.

Analysis

The New Twitter: What’s Good and What’s Missing

Twitter rolled out a richer interface for users Tuesday — but did not include two features users have long sought. Here’s a first look at what you’ll get in the new Twitter and what you won’t.

How CIOs Use Twitter: 5 Facts

Twitter adoption among CIOs increased significantly in the last year, according to a new survey. But 49 percent of CIOs say Twitter’s biggest challenge in the enterprise is its reputation as a time-waster.

The Four Biggest Mistakes Businesses Make on Twitter

Is your business suffering from Twitter neglect? Get your brand back on track by recognizing these four common errors and revitalizing your social strategy.

Top Twitter Trends of 2010

Which technology terms dominated Twitter feeds this year? Did we care more about #iPad or #Bieber? Check out the top ten lists.

Twitter Tips: How to Get Retweeted, Part 2

Do some words in your tweets increase the odds that others will share your content? Yes: Check out this new tool.

Twitter Fail Whale Is Hardest Working Employee

We all deserve a vacation, and lately, the Fail Whale has earned his. Will Twitter’s fix for downtime issues solve the problem?

Twitter Tests E-Commerce With “Earlybird”

If you’re a fan of social buying sites like Groupon or BuyWithMe, you’ll want to keep an eye on Twitter now, too. Here’s why.

Twitter Time Machine: How Will You Use Google Replay?

Google’s new search tool lets you travel back in time to search and revisit old tweets. Here’s why that could be a big deal.

When to Quit Twitter: A Productivity Guru’s Advice

Some can’t live with Twitter, some can’t live without it. Here’s how to decide if it’s useful or a time sink.

A Victory for Social Media: Inside the Election of Colombia’s New President

Juan Manuel Santos’s race to Colombia’s presidency is a social media case study for companies everywhere: How his team used Facebook, mobile apps and geolocation technologies to overcome a 12-point deficit and win with 70 percent of the votes — all in just 50 days.

Twitter: Making Money Takes Back Seat to Growth Even in Economic Recession

An executive Twitter told Web 2.0 Summit attendees they were focused on growth and helping their users — rather than making money, despite the faltering economy.

Would Twitter Have a Better Home at Google or Facebook?

The speculation that Google is likely in talks to acquire Twitter shouldn’t be surprising. The Twitter founders already entertained offers from Facebook as well. As a result, Twitter will have a choice: sell to a company that connects people to information, or to one that connects people with people. Based on the nature of Twitter, the choice might not be so straightforward.

The Four Biggest Mistakes Businesses Make on Twitter

Is your business suffering from Twitter neglect? Get your brand back on track by recognizing these four common errors and revitalizing your social strategy.

The Four Biggest Mistakes Businesses Make on Twitter

Is your business suffering from Twitter neglect? Get your brand back on track by recognizing these four common errors and revitalizing your social strategy.

The Four Biggest Mistakes Businesses Make on Twitter

Is your business suffering from Twitter neglect? Get your brand back on track by recognizing these four common errors and revitalizing your social strategy.

Kristin Burnham covers consumer Web and social technologies for CIO.com. She writes frequently on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and Google. You can follow her on Twitter: @kmburnham.