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I have some tips on using twitter on my blog if you are interestd. in reply to silma347 # I have back problems and I cannot afford to do anything about it… and my bed is horrible and 8+ years old. I am still thankful tho # in reply to bsabatinelli # in reply to deeziner # 1$ can help me out so much! http://tr.im/myback # – http://tr.im/oprahcaps # in reply to Sisneros # # # I love typography. in reply to tutwow # in reply to Carolsant #So you just got on twitter and you have no idea what the hell is going on? Ya it happened to me to. I was seeing all types of interconnected conversations and didn’t know how to step into them. This post will explain what the #hashtag tweet is all about. If you are brand new to twitter you may want to read my learn the basics of twitter post.
The first thing to do would be going to search.twitter.com and typing in a few of your favorite activities, hobbies, jobs, or interests. This is a great way to find new friends on twitter. Most likely you will notice a few tweets with the # and a word after it. That is a “hashtag” and it is just the number or pound sign plus a “tag”. Tags are words that describe the content. On this blog you may notice the tags i have on posts. Hashtags are tags for twitter.
Now you got a few friends that use the hashtag, you will want to join in. The most popular (in my opinion) is the #followfriday hashtag. Thought up by @micah it was started to share interesting new friends on twitter with others, on fridays. Here is how it works, on friday thousands of people on twitter pick some people they like on twitter and tweet their @names and the hashtag #followfriday. Its simple, quick, and helps new people on twitter find interesting tweeple. It works because your friends see who you like and can retweet it. Seriously fridays are always the day when I get a lot of followers.
You can put a hashtag after any tweet you make like in the example #eco. After any tweet that has to do with the green movement, environmental causes, or eco news you can put the #eco hashtag and other people will easily be able to find it and share it.
Lets have a real life examples:
I tweet the following: “I just planted a tree, i feel so #green” it will show up on twitter search for #green immediately as well as any web apps that rely on the twitter API and feeds that are set to retrieve those tweets.
Here is a list of popular #hashtags I know of, feel free to suggest more in the comments below!
~#followfriday Fridays only! Suggest new friends to your followers.
~#quote One of my favorites! I even built a web app Twuoted – Quotes from twitter to find new great quotes. Use it after any quote you want to share!
~#musicmonday Mondays only! Tell twitter what music you like.
~#green Like the planet? Me to, i use a lot of #green!
~#dev For the developers out there making the web happen.
~#design I love design. A lot.
~#wordpress If you got questions about wordpress use this.
~#fastfollowfive A new good one, suggest the 5 latest people you follow who tweeted. (@montanaflynn @twuoted @complimedia @GNUlicense @dom #fastfollowfive)
~You can pretty much look for any event or destination with the hashtag as well, #SXSW was VERY popular on twitter during the south by southwest event.
Their are many websites that utilize hashtags on twitter for their content…
These are my favorites:
Their are even twitter accounts that tweet the latest hashtags on twitter.
If you want to start your own tag make sure it is small and easy to remember and type. I love to tag a lot of my links to blogs with tags like #design #css #websites to make sure they reach the most people looking for that information. I hope you will do the same.
Thats it for now, if you got any questions leave a comment or tweet at me @montanaflynn.
If you want to learn more about the basics of twitter I did a post just for you! Click here to learn the basics of twitter.
Release 2.1 of chi.mp is now live!
Dashboard, Contact Management, Push Blog Posts and Photos!
Dashboard. You have a new Dashboard which shows you an overview of what has been happening around your .mp site. There are four widgets that both display and link to recent activity in Contacts, Content, Personas and the Chi.mp Community. You can also update and push your chi.mp status out to your Twitter and Facebook accounts from this screen.
Contact Management. They have completely revamped the user interface for contact management! Now it is much simpler to manage your contacts.
Also they have added features which include sorting and filtering your contacts by persona, tags, saved searches or regular search and performing group actions on those searches. For example, if you want to assign all of your Twitter contacts to your public persona, you can do this with just a few clicks.
Our suggestion engine will also look through your contacts to determine if you have duplicate entries for one contact. For example, @johnsmith on twitter might be the same as John Smith from gmail and is also a contact from Outlook, so you now have an easy way to join those three entries into one!
The contacts screen also displays a list of your recently added contacts, choose this link, and you will be able to invite, assign, tag, merge or delete them from your address book. Managing your contacts from across the Web is now easy to do. Do not forget that your contacts can also be exported from your .mp site back to your computer.
Push Site Updates to Twitter and Facebook. Notify your selected contacts when you add new photos or write a new blog post! As you upload photos or blog content, you have the option to push a notification to your Facebook Newsfeed and/or your Twitter status.
Domain Alias. Point your other domains to chi.mp by creating an alias to your .mp with CNAME records. Just look in Settings->Domain Aliases.
Remember I have special invites, leave comments and I’ll hook you up!
Tr.im is a url shortening service like www.tinyurl.com except it is makes REALLY small url’s! It also has built in anaylitcs, bookmarklets, and the ability to add the tr.im’d urls directly to twitter!
Lets take a look at the great UI:
You do not need an account although it is so simple to set up an account, it took me less than 30 seconds, you might as well. Once you have your account set up you can begin using the service with analytics. Its relatively simple you paste a long url and press tr.im and it returns a small url to post in social networks and microblogs like chi.mp and twitter. The coolest thing about it that you can measure your impact through the visitors analytical data such as OS, browser, referral pages, and more:
I switched to tr.im because of the API and bookmarklets they have available, when you click on a tr.im bookmarklet, for example, it grabs the website address you are at, and gets a tr.im URL for it, automatically. It can even automagically send the trimmed url to twitter! Bookmarklets are supported in either Firefox, Safari, Chrome or Opera. If you use IE, perhaps you should switch! Today!
Of course their are many more url shortening services, perhaps you would like to check them out as well, here are the best ones:
