I often come across links that I find useful or enjoyable and that I’d like to share, but that I haven’t got time to write a full blog post about. I’ve decided, therefore, to try wrapping a few of my favourites up into a weekly(ish) digest which I’ll post here.
This week, a selection of Twitter-related links:
- HootSuite — Describing itself as “the ultimate Twitter toolbox”, HootSuite lets you manage multiple Twitter accounts, have multiple users on one account (without revealing the password for that account), schedule tweets and much more.
- TwiTip — A blog filled to the brim with helpful Twitter advice and tips.
- What the Hashtag?! — A user-written encyclopaedia of hashtags: great for figuring out the meaning of that cryptic hashtag you’ve just found in your Twitter stream.
- 13 “Twits†Who Will Change Your Perspective on Reality — A list of Twitter users who are well worth following.
- The 10 Users You’ll Meet on Twitter — A breakdown of the types of people you might run into on Twitter.
- Why I talk about the weather on Twitter — A nice, brief comment from Joanna Young of Confident Writing on joining in the conversation
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Hi Jez, thanks for mentioning my piece about Twitter – it sparked an amazing conversation, I had no idea other people found blethering about the weather so interesting too!
Interesting. Not convinced on the hashtag thing though – the big problem is that not enough people know about that site to make it the de facto authoritative source on hashtags. I could mention two more (hashtags.org, but that’s not a dictionary, and hashdictionary.com) without looking it up, but of those, only hashtags stores them all, and that’s only because it really just accesses twitter for every request. A much better thing to do would be to modify hashtags.org to include definitions for tags too.
My $0.02
think I’ll be following a few of those 13 twits!
@Joanna You’re welcome! It’s nice when a short comment prompts a long and interesting conversation. I’m quite a fan of rain myself, for some reason.
@Matt Yes, it’s a nice idea and I’d love to see it catch on. If you follow @wthashtag you get a couple of useful features: 1) every time a new hashtag starts trending (how did ‘trend’ ever become a verb?), it posts a tweet inviting someone to define it; and 2) you can send it a DM with the name of any hashtag and it’ll respond straight away with the definition.