On tweeting and twittering

[jkgourmet]

I've downloaded the Tweetdeck. I've got twitter installed on my blog (according to Michael, thank you!) and I've got my twitter account @jkgourmet.

Some folks are already following me, both people I know (mostly from this site) and others who seem to just attach themselves to everyone that they can find. I don't even know how they found ME.

I'm trying to understand how I tweet up a post that I did in my blog. Can I only tweet to those that are following me? Or can it go out the everybody in the world, too?

I feel very old with this tweeting stuff. . .

Now I'm going back to Tweetdeck and see what actually installed itself on my computer.

[Clay Franklin]

Only people that follow you can see your tweets in their tweet stream. Tweets do get indexed by google so if you use keywords, it could show up on a Google search.

Search Plug ins on your blog for (twitter or tweet blog post) and I am sure there is one that will tweet you blog post for you.

I just go to the page copy the URL go to bit.ly and get a bit.ly shortened link and then write a custom tweet with the link.

[Chris Norman]

Jeanette,

A friend of mine uses a program by the name of Twitterfeed (http://twitterfeed.com/) that notifies followers on Twitter of every post he makes on his blog automatically. Could that be a solution for you? I believe it is free!

Good day to you! Chris

[Clay Franklin]

Hey Chris, when I got your email notice of post,
I remembered that ping.fm will integrate all your social media sites including blog posts to twitter and facebook.

I used the facebook auto post feature to auto post my blog to facebook.

[Chris Norman]

Clay, Thanks for the update! Posterous will do this as well. We could go back and forth all night!!!

Saratoga? I know it well! I love Big Basin! Are you familiar with Chico? (Sorry Jeanette, got off topic!)

Chris

[Lynn Terry]

Most people search by keywords to find someone new & interesting to follow. The keywords in your bio will attract people: gourmet food, wine, kitchen - or even your location.

I prefer to tweet my blog posts manually, but I see that a lot of people automate that.

This post might be helpful: http://www.clicknewz.com/1953/twitter-marketing/

[angienewton]

Jeanette,
Welcome to Twitter! I really like Tweetdeck.

You don't have to follow everyone who follows you. Just follow the people you feel you connect with personally or business wise. There are so many people that follow me where I just roll my eyes LOL

I don't do auto tweets either so when I want to share a blog post, I just type in something like the title and ask for comments and provide the link to my blog post. Kind of like I did when I tweeted you. And everyone who is following you will see it.

Angie

[jkgourmet]

Okay, how does one tweet non-followers?

Or the question might be more properly phrased, how does one create followers? (besides the graphic on my website)

[Lynn Terry]

You can tweet anyone on Twitter just by putting their @username at the beginning (or anywhere in) your Tweet. So even if you weren't following me or me you, you could Tweet this: @LynnTerry Hi Lynn, enjoyed reading your blog today .

That would probably make me follow you, by the way. Actually that's how I found & followed you - when you tweeted to me a few days ago. :)

You can find people and people can find you by keyword searches. To grow your following, search your own keywords and start following the people in your niche. Then get involved in the discussions.

[jkgourmet]

Oh goodie. A treasure hunt. :)

[Lynn Terry]

Have some fun with it ;) Once you get on a roll you'll find it's a lot of fun to tweet with other wine & gourmet food/gift enthusiasts!

[nar321]

As the iphone ad says there is an app for that. Say you like Wine it would give you fellow wine lovers twitter handles with the ability to follow as many or few that you care to. I don't remember it's actual name as I haven't used it for awhile. Do a google search for "locate like minded twitters I can follow"

[jkgourmet]

VERY COOL! I downloaded the app onto my itouch just last night- haven't even looked at it yet.

BTW, do people prefer tweetdeck or Power tweet (the add on for Firefox). Note that the latter will not work on the itouch, but the former (I think) has an app.

And what does sync between computers in Tweetdeck mean?

[Lynn Terry]

I use & love TweetDeck. Syncing between computers is cool but I haven't used it yet. I use a desktop and 2 laptops, so it means your groups & columns and all that will work the same across your different systems.

[nar321]

use Twitter Search
Use Twellow
Tweetup on Meetup
it's probably www.twellow.com for Twellow & www.meetup.com for Tweetup on Meetup
http://twitter.com/twellow there on Twitter, the url for twellow is correct and hopefully for meetup

[AffiliateMax]

You can also add yourself to wefollow and then use the tags to find other people with the same interests (ordered by number of followers or by most influential - although I am not sure exactly what that means or how they calculate it!)
http://wefollow.com/

You can also just use wefollow without adding yourself if you prefer..

So for example for the tag wine you get:
http://wefollow.com/twitter/wine

You can also retweet (RT) useful and interesting tweets from other people by adding RT @theirtwitterusername at the beginning - people willl often thank (and follow you) when you do this.

http://twitter.com/Twitter_Tips is also worth following for useful tips. ;)

[Clay Franklin]

Hey Chris, I was born in Chico and went to CSU after HS. I even went on my first date with my wife in Chico.

I use Tweetie2 on the iPhone.

If I ever get tweetdeck or tweetglide set up with groups, I will install it on the iPhone also.

I have a bunch of resources over at my Twitter Blog (http://twitterfornewbies.com).

[TraciKnoppe]

Another TweetDeck user here (with many video tutorials on TweetDeck at my GenesisBlogging.com site).

I also use Twitter Tools to send a tweet to Twitter when I publish a new blog post.