Twitter for librarians

General Introductions 

Overviews and outlines

Newbie's guide to Twitter

Nice overview that takes you through the basics.

The Big Juicy Twitter Guide

Book/chapter format, with lots of useful information.

How to Twitter: why the world is Twitter crazy - Telegraph

Twitter is taking the world by storm, leaving Facebook and email in its wake.
We examine how the micro-blogging site is helping users in their personal
and professional lives.

A Guide To Twitter: What It Is, How To Use It And Twitter Tools

Nice overview of Twitter - quite long and a useful read.

Dawn of the Twitter Effect | Royal Pingdom

Another overview and discussion on the resource.

8 Useful Tips To Become Successful With Twitter

8 really useful points to take on board when using Twitter.

Twittin Secrets: 100 Free Twitter Tips and Twitter Secrets by Dan Hollings

There are a lot of wimpy "Twitter Tip Lists" out there; this is NOT one of them. These 100+ Twitter Tips go from insightful Twitter toddler level to explosive Twitter-bomb advanced. Even if you think you're a Twitter social or Twitter business pro, you might want to start from the beginning - this is one hefty shovel full of "Twitter How-to" ready for you to Digg.

How to Present While People are Twittering

People used to whisper to each other or pass hand-scribbled notes during presentations. Now these notes are going digital on Twitter or via conference-provided chat rooms.

» Twitter, the Most Important Website Since Google?

twitter bird google jpgI will be the first to admit while it didn't take me a long time to sign up and start networking with friends on Twitter, it has taken me a long time to understand the true power of the website. When I first started using it I saw it as a networking and communication tool. The more I come to use it and the more I watch people from all walks of life using it I am starting to see why Twitter may possibly be the most important website since Google. To help you understand my logic I want to start with some thoughts on Google.

How to Change Your Twitter Username ID

Nice quick tutorial on how to change your ID if you got it wrong the first time out.

33 Reasons to Use Twitter - A Guide to Finding Value in the Service!

Twitter brings with it the question: what does it do and why should I use it?

To get more familiar with it, here are 29 useful scenario's, ranging from getting a new job to doing market research, and 4 ? somewhat unexpected ones

Why Twitter?

Nice little wiki that covers the basics of Twitter. Also has the Common Craft Twitter video there, always worth a watch.

Twitter Guide Book ? How To, Tips and Instructions by Mashable

Twitter Guide Book is a one stop educational source for learning more about Twitter and how to use it including advice for beginners, building your community, twitter for business, managing your Twitter stream and advanced tips.

Tweetiquette ? Twitter Etiquette, Top 10 Dos and Don'ts of Twitter

Do you know Twitter Etiquette? I go over the top 10 dos and don'ts of Twitter. Are you following these guidelines?

5 Reasons Why Twitter's Growth Cannot Be Stopped

With all the skepticism of whether it's just a social media fad and questions about how the company expects to generate revenue, Twitter has left many critics silent by continuing to grow.

The anatomy of Twitter: an 8 point strategic guide

Good points covering name, background, biography and so on.

A twitter cheat sheet

Useful basic listing on 2 sides of paper

Dilbert comic strip

Dilbert does Twitter - funny cartoon

The Five WORST Excuses for Not Using Twitter

Nice examples of the kind of reasons why people try not to use Twitter, and rebuttals for them. If you're having difficulty getting Twitter into your organisation this is worth reading.

Twitter: Best Practices and Tips [PDF Guide]

It's a free online book on how to use Twitter.

How to Snap Up that Twitter Username You’ve Always Wanted

Details on how you might be able to get the Twitter name that you're after.

Twitter for librarians 

Links to other library related resources to with Twitter

Twitter for librarians - the ultimate guide (perhaps!)

Nice overview of resources that are available; American bias but worth a look.

Libraries on Twitter (updated list) « Circulation

A useful list of libraries on Twitter. Mainly US I think

Librarians Twibe - Librarians Twitter Users

This page is for Twitter users interested in librarians. A twibe for libraries, librarians, librarians-in-training (and other interested tweeps) to discuss anything and everything relating to the work of the library.

Libraries tap into Twitter - Guardian article

Increasing numbers of librarians are using Twitter to engage readers and spread information.

How your library may not be using Twitter but should

Very interesting article on the use of Twitter written from the viewpoint of a librarian.

Unknown

Uk Librarians who blog and tweet A listing of tweeple who do both. Easy subscribe option.

twibs - Twitter Business Directory - 17,876 businesses and counting! - Add your business today!

Twibs is the Twitter Business Directory. Our directory of twitter businesses has over 17,876 businesses who twitter. Add your business to the list today and join the twitter business list to help you find followers.

100 Ways to Use Twitter In Your Library

Some ways, but not 100

What can Twitter do for my library & my community?

What is Twitter? What can Twitter do for my library & my community? Nice site looking at the ways in which it can be used in a library environment.

Analysis tools 

Friend or Follow

Who are you following and are they following you?

User Search | Twitter Grader

Twitter Grader : Measure the power and authority of your twitter profile

Twitter Followers Statistics by TwitterCounter

Twitter Followers Statistics by TwitterCounter

Twitterholic

Our twittastic robots scan the Twitter public timeline for new twits to tweet. A few times a day, we calculate individual statistics for each twittering twit.

The Twitalyzer for Tracking Influence and Measuring Success in Twitter

Twitalyzer is a unique tool to evaluate the activity of any Twitter user and report on relative influence, signal-to-noise ratio, generosity, velocity, clout, and other useful measures of success. [Personally I think this is total rubbish, but it's available for you to try out.]

Top Twitter Friends

Top Twitter Friends
Who do you talk to most often on Twitter?
Who are your closest friends?
What does your social network look like?
See your conversations:

Twitter Analyzer

Twitter Analyzer Is The Most Advanced Twitter Analytic System In The World.

The ReTweetability Index

The ReTweetability Index measures and ranks Twitter users based on the infectious power of their tweets. This number accounts for number of followers and Tweets overall, so it is a true indicator of infectiousness.

Tweeps.info - tracking your tweeps!

Welcome to Tweeps.info - tracking your tweeps! What do they tweet about? How much do they tweet? How social are they? Do they use hashtags? Share URLs? Tweeps.info answers these questions and more. We analyze the content of Twitter users' tweets.

Tweeting By Numbers: 7 Ways to Become a Twitter Analyst

There are plenty of Twitter tools out there designed to help you understand TwitterTwitter metrics.

When Did You Join Twitter?

Find out when you joined Twitter

Twadges: Twitter Badges

Hello! Enter your Twitter username to get your Twadges: Twadges are the latest sensation taking the Twittersphere by storm.
There are over 60 Twadges to earn based on your Twitter performance - think scout badges and you're there. Just a bit of fun, really.

Twilitics; link shortening and tracking service

Twilitics is analytics for Twitter, tracking the clicks on your URLs. Use this resource to shorten your long URL, and then keep a watch to see how many clicks you get.

Follower Wonk: compare Twitter users

Follower Wonk is a fun, free app that shows you shared and unique friends and followers of different Twitter users. Plus lots more!

To start, simply enter 2 or 3 different Twitter user names above.

We will work our magic, and show you nifty charts that reveal their shared and unique friends (people who they follow) and followers (people who follow them). Oh, and we'll also actually tell you WHO these shared or unique friends and followers are. This is a great way to find commonalities between even the most disparate people.

Here Be Twitterers - We Put Your Social Graph on the Map

Wondering where your Twitter friends are?

We created HereBeTwitterers, so you can see all your friends on a map.

Twitter Search Engines 

Twellow :: Twitter Directory, Twitter Search, & Twitter Yellow Pages

Twellow is a directory of public Twitter accounts, with hundreds of categories and search features to help you find people who matter to you.

Just Tweet It » THE Directory for Twitter Users!

Just Tweet It is a user directory for Twitter organized by genre to allow for users to easily find other Twitter users to connect with.

TwitterPacks / Twitter Pack by Topic

Lots of links and resources for librarians. You can add yourself to the wiki or find others.

monitter : real time, live twitter monitor | free live twitter embed widget

It's a twitter monitor, it lets you "monitter" the twitter world for a set of keywords and watch what people are saying.

Tweet Scan - Microblog Search

Who is talking about 'librarian' right now? (or indeed anything else that interests you).

#hashtags - What's happening right now on twitter

Hashtags are a community-driven convention for adding additional context and metadata to your tweets. This resource lets you search them.

TweetStalk

Stalk, Don't Follow Sometimes you want to follow someone on Twitter, but you don't want them to know you're following them. We present to you TweetStalk the simple way to stalk Twitter users without having to follow them.

twibs - Twitter Business Directory - 17,800 businesses and counting! - Add your business today!

Twibs is the Twitter Business Directory. Our directory of twitter businesses has over 17,800 businesses who twitter. Add your business to the list today and join the twitter business list to help you find followers.

Twitter StreamGraphs

A visual search engine to show you terms. Not sure how useful it is, but there ya go.

PicFog - real-time image search

Real time image search powered by twitter and twitpic. Breaking news in images.

TwitPicGrid - by jazzychad

Images posted to Twitter real time.

A Couple of Twitter Search Tricks

Some nice tricks and ways of using the Twitter search engine

TweepSearch :: Twitter Profile and Bio Search

Twitter bio and profile search, even allows you to limit by your personalized friends and followers.

» twittersphere | the most talked about stories from social messaging utility twitter.com

A current melange of the most talked about stories from social messaging utility twitter.com - the screen into the greenhouse of worldshaking linkage and chatter.

IceRocket real-time search

Real-time blog search engine. Trends tracking. This link takes you directly to the Icerocket Twitter search option.

twendz : Exploring Twitter Conversations and Sentiment

Twendz generalizes conversations on Twitter by aggregating and analyzing sentiment for topics as they happen.

monitter : real time, live twitter monitor | free live twitter embed widget

What is it? Simple. It's a twitter monitor, it lets you "monitter" the twitter world for a set of keywords and watch what people are saying about that subject.

Trendistic

Type in your search term, see what people are saying.

Nearby Tweets - Instantly find twitterers nearby

Nearby Tweets makes it simple to find twitterers nearby (or anywhere for that matter). Automatically finds your location and the last 50 tweets near you. Customize your search with a the location, search radius, and keywords.

Tweet Scan - Microblog Search

Searches Twitter and other similar services

BackTweets

Search for back links found on Twitter.

twopular - popular trends on twitter

twopular - popular trends on twitter

TweepSearch :: Twitter Profile and Bio Search

Twitter bio and profile search, even allows you to limit by your personalized friends and followers.

TweetMeme - Search and Retweet the Hottest Stories on Twitter

TweetMeme finds the hottest stories from twitter for you to retweet

Twitterfall

Nice resource to search for words, phrases, hashtags and follow them via realtime scrolling.

AskTwitR

Yet another search engine!

#hashtags - What's happening right now on twitter

#Hashtags search. What's happening right now on twitter

Twithority Search

Twitter Search by authority

TwittLink - Your headlines on Twitter

Your headlines on Twitter; it's a meme tracker to keep up to date with headlines on Twitter.

Listorious: Discover the Best Twitter Lists

The directory of awesome lists on Twitter

Topsy - A search engine powered by tweets

Type in your search, see who is tweeting about you or it. Works well, though data is arranged by relevence, not time.

twitrratr

Discover what people are really saying on Twitter. With Twitrratr you can distinguish negative from positive tweets surrounding a brand, product, person or topic

Followers; finding, checking, dropping 

I Twannabe like you!

Find out who your Twitter hero is following and you are not!
Only works for the first 2000 contacts (with open accounts) you and your hero have:

FriendOrFollow.com - Who's not following you back? Who aren't you following?

Who are you following that's not following you back? Who's following you that you're not following back? Find out!

Twubble

Twubble is a Twitter extension which helps you find more friends.

fb140: Find all of your facebook friends who are using Twitter

This is for those who really want to mash all their friends and contacts together..

Third Party resources 

How to use Tweetdeck

Tweetdeck is a great tool, and this link shows you how to make good use of it.

twalala

Get ready to take control of your twitterstream. twalala is a client for Twitter that allows you to control what you see, and more importantly, what you don't see in your twitterstream.

Using twalala, you can filter tweets out of your stream by keywords and phrases or mute individuals who get a bit too chatty. Finally, Twitter with a mute button.

Yammer : Enterprise Microblogging

Yammer is a tool for making companies and organizations more productive through the exchange of short frequent answers to one simple question: What are you working on?

Twitter multi account manager & brand monitor | Splitweet

Multi-account Twitter reputation management for corporate users. Do you have more than one Twitter account? Splitweet is your tool!

Welcome to BubbleTweet!

Add Video To Your Twitter Page In Seconds with BubbleTweet

Seesmic

A resource like Tweetdeck that allows you to create your own groups and make it easier to keep onto of the tweets.

TweetDeck

TweetDeck: a simple and fast way to experience Twitter.

TwitChuck - Seriously taking on Twitter spam

TwitChuck is serious about Twitter spam. We provide multiple tools to help you manage and stop Twitter spam.

HOW TO: Create Groups for Twitter

One of the most demanded features for Twitter has been the ability to create groups. Here is a roundup of some of 11 ways to create groups on Twitter.

share youtube videos on twitter

Share youtube videos on twitter with a nifty little URL

TwittImg (Beta) - Share Your Pictures On Twitter Easily

3rd party app to allow you to post images to your Twitter account. Does require your password details however, which I'm not so keen on.

Twapper Keeper - Archive Tweets

Allows you to archive and organize your tweets based upon hash tags.

What The Trend? Find out WHY terms are trending on Twitter

Find out what's trending on Twitter and why. For each trend, we give you a quick explanation of WHY it's trending (these blurbs are edited by you!) You can also see the latest tweets, Flickr photos and news stories.

Twittermania: 140+ More Twitter Tools!

Various Twitter-related tools and plugins have been multiplying fast over since we did our big Twitter Toolbox and 8 awesome Firefox plugins for Twitter

31 Power Tools For Twitter Lovers To Make Lives Easier @ SmashingApps

Lots of tools to let you extend the use of Twitter.

praetorius.com » Create Your Own Twitterwall with www.twitterwall.me

Nice walk through on how to create your own twitterwall to catch tweets on a subject.

How to Add a Twitter Button to Your Blog: All Possible Options

Twitter is recognized as one of the best viral marketing tools. So if you have a good post you think might go viral, Twitter is your best bet to attract people's and 'linkers' attention to it.

Twitter lists 

Information about lists, resources for using, finding, creating.

Twitter list embedder

Widget direct from twitter. Choose your list and pop the code where you want.

HOW TO: Use Twitter Lists

The newly launched Twitter Lists feature allows you to group together, follow, and find Twitter users. Learn the ins and outs of this new feature in our guide.

Twitter Lists

Lots of Twitter lists er... listed!

Collections of resources 

The Top 327 Twitter Tools, Twitter Resources, and Twitter Services

The following websites will help you make better use of Twitter for promoting and marketing your books, products, services, and websites.

Find ‘Em On Twitter: 15 Twitter Directories Compared

Searching for people or applications on Twitter? Good luck with that. Since Twitter offers little in the way of people search features (though they now) there are some resources that will help. This is a compilation.

25 Twitter Apps for Multi-Account Users - Birdsall Social Media

Various different resources that are worth looking at.

Twitter Lists

Twitter Resource Lists. Lots of lists from Mashable!

Twitter Applications List You'll Ever Need

Welcome to Twitterapps! - I have 275 Twitter applications at the momentTwitter applications can be called by different names. They are sometimes called as 'twitter tools', 'twitter add-ons' and the likes. But whatever the name they are called, they are simply websites which have built-in scripts.

10 Most Useful Free Twitter Tools for Bloggers

From Robin Good: I present to you my list of 10 most useful free Twitter tools for bloggers that we use daily and find of the most practical use in our blogging routine.

3rd party Twitter Applications List

Nice collection of over 180 applications

Using Twitter in Business 

How well do you use your twittersphere?

Basic outline of the use of the service from a business perspective

17 Ways You Can Use Twitter: A Guide for Beginners and Businesses

Twitter is a micro blogging platform which allows you to publish short messages. Here are some ways to use twitter and examples on how Twitter can be used.

Yet Another Way Twitter Minds Everyone's Business

Brief article on using twitter to keep up with the news.

Twitter for recruiters

2 pdf based articles looking at how the resource can be used to headhunt.

25+ Twitter Articles Every Small Business Owner Must Read | TJ Dzine

Hey, I thought I'd compile a list of some of the best articles on how to use twitter for business. Here is the list, currently comprising of 25+ articles.

How To Use Twitter For Business Video

Video: How To Use Twitter For Business.

Using Twitter in Education 

25 interesting ways to use Twitter in the classroom

Nice Google docs slideshow presentation

5 Things To Get Your Twitter Network Off The Ground | ICT in my Classroom

As I have recently helped a few people begin their network with Twitter I thought I would write about a few ideas to help get started and to make the most of Twitter for teachers.

Why Twitter?

This is an educational wiki but it's not been updated in a while, so not sure it's still active.

100 Tips, Apps, and Resources for Teachers on Twitter | Online College Degree

Busy teachers may feel that taking the time to learn how to use Twitter isn't worth the return for the students benefit, so that's why this list of 100 tips, apps, and resources is worth browsing.

Video on Twitter produced by JISC

Video file posted to blip.tv by web2practice.

30 Twitter Tips for Teachers

A nice collection of ideas on how teachers can use Twitter.

Twitter Blog 

Nice collection of blog posts on the use of Twitter in education

100 Twitter Feeds To Make You a Better Teacher

100 Twitter Feeds To Make You a Better Teacher

Teaching With Twitter: Not for the Faint of Heart - Technology - The Chronicle of Higher Education

Interesting article on how some teachers are allowing the use of Twitter within lectures - for good and ill!

Pleased to Tweet You: Making a case for Twitter in the classroom - 12/1/2009 - School Library Journal

The lights are dimmed and the LCD projector is on when my seventh graders arrive for English class on a cool September morning at Stafford Middle School in Plattsburgh, a small school district on the western shore of Lake Champlain in Northern New York.

Nice ideas and examples of using twitter with schoolchildren, including details on putting together a proposal.

Twitter widgets 

Add Twitter Remote to your blog or website!

This widget shows which twitter users recently visited your blog or website.

TwitIMG.com

With TwitIMG you can keep everyone up to date by using your latest Twitter status, displayed in the form of an appealing image. TwitIMG will grab your latest Twitter status and display it, along with your screen name and avatar, as an image for your site.

20 Twitter Badges to Show Off Your Tweets

Here are 20 embeddable badges and widgets that you can customize to include your tweets and, in some cases, those of your friends.

10 Awesome Ways to Integrate Twitter With Your Website

Nice little collection.

Designing Tweets: How To Integrate Twitter Into Your Web Site

Jennifer Farley: In order to grab your attention and have you follow them on Twitter, some web site owners choose to go beyond a simple ?Follow Me? and also display their latest tweets. I don't know if one method is preferable over the other in order to actually pick up followers, but I thought it might be helpful to take a look at how you can display tweets and also how some designers are making their tweets stand out, or in some cases blend in to the overall design.

Twittinesis

Publish your tweets directly into your blog stream. Simple and straightforward.

Loudtwitter delivering tweets by the dozen

Post tweets (from twitter.com), to your blogs (Atom or Email)

Generate Your Own Twitter Logo | Twitlogo

Create text in a Twitter font

Tweetboard - True Twitter Conversation

Tweetboard is True Twitter Conversation for your website. Embed it onto a webpage and have conversations threaded there and ported back to Twitter as well.

jotabl | your twitter shoutbox

Do you use Twitter? Chances are that your visitors do to. Improve your website by encouraging visitors to leave their comments through the powerful medium of Twitter.

Twitter backgrounds 

Twitter Backgrounds Gallery

Twitter Backgrounds Gallery is the largest showcase of unique Twitter backgrounds submitted and recommended by Twitter users worldwide. Get inspired, vote for your favorites, find a designer or DIY resources and most importantly - have fun!

Tweetable Art: 10 Twitter Tips for Artists

From tweeting about the artistic process to sharing upcoming gallery news, here are 10 ways artists can better connect with their followers on Twitter.

Twitter Background Design How-To and Best Practices

Check out this overview of best practices to stand out from the crowd with your Twitter theme and follow the tutorial to create your own profile from scratch.

How-To: Create a Unique Twitter Background (UPDATED)

Here we've pulled together a collection of how-to articles, advice, resources and tools to help you create a unique background for your Twitter Profile. At the bottom, you'll find some very useful online pattern/background generators that you can use for your Twitter background as well as your website or blog.

Twitter Backgrounds | Free Twitter Backgrounds | twitrounds.com

Twitter Backgrounds by twitrounds. Get high quality free twitter backgrounds on your twitter profile today.

Twitter in the news 

Twitter use in the UK explodes

UK Internet traffic to Twitter has increased 10-fold over past last 12 months, according to Hitwise. For the week ending 17/01/09 Twitter ranked as the 291st most visited website in the UK, up from a ranking of 2,953 for the week ending 19/01/08. UK Internet traffic to the website has increased by a staggering 974% over this period.

YouTube - Twittersnow

A screencast of Barnabu's Google Earth browser version of the Twitter UK Snow map.

Alltop - Top Twitter News

Twitter news and headlines from around the web.

Twitter celebrities

Times article on celebs on Twitter. Bit old now, but interesting.

twitter.com - Quantcast Audience Profile

Twitter.com is a top 50 site that reaches over 28 million U.S. monthly people. The site attracts a young adult, slightly more female than male audience.The typical visitor reads Perez Hilton, subscribes to Entertainment Weekly, and visits freeweblayouts.com.

Hitwise Intelligence - Robin Goad - UK

UK usage of Twitter statistics

Twitter growth

Twitter is growing at a phenomenal rate, according to an employee post on the Twitter blog.

Just how phenomenal? Try this: Active users have increased 900% in a year, and two times the traffic that Twitter's website receives heads to Twitter's APIs ? meaning that far more people use outside clients to manage their tweeting, including SMS.

Guardian article on the influence of Twitter. February 2009

The hottest microblogging service, Twitter, is changing the way TV, literature and media operate. Ajesh Patalay reports

Twitter: we all need to be in the loop - Times Online

General news article written in February 2009

Twooting.com: The Daily Podcast All About Twitter

The Daily Podcast All About Twitter

How Twitter Will Change the Way We Live - TIME

Once just a fad, Twitter is developing into a powerful form of communication. What its growth says about us; and the future of American innovation

Teens don't tweet? They may start soon.

August 2009 article on the changing demographics of Twitter.

Twitter: A Vampire That Can Legally Suck the Life Out of You - Advertising Age - The Media Guy

When Twitter announced recent changes to its terms of service, its executives knew exactly how to spin the news.

Teens Adopting Twitter

Useful article with lots of data which demonstrates that teenagers are now adopting Twitter in larger numbers than ever before.

How Twitter Conquered the World in 2009

With important new features and huge mainstream growth, Twitter has made waves in 2009. Here's a recount of the year's ups and downs for Twitter, and a glimpse of what's in store for 2010.

Interfaces 

Accessible Twitter : web accessibility for the Twitter.com website application

Accessible Twitter. Web accessibility for the Twitter web application. The Twitter.com website redone with strict web standards and web accessibility. Tweet on Accessible Twitter.

Tweetwally - Organize and Present Tweets

Tweetwally lets you search Twitter for tweets based on hashtags, usernames, and keywords to create your own customized tweetwall.