Twitter News 6/19/2009
I much as I don’t like to change things, but for at least the summer months, we have had to change Cloud Weekly’s release from Monday to Friday. It will depend upon your response if we keep it here or not.
Because this week is an all Twitter podcast we are going to change up our format a little to give you the best and worst of Twitter.
- Twitter has made AP’s Stylebook - Grammarians and journos take note: Twitter has made it as an entry in the 2009 edition of the Associated Press Stylebook, which is, of course, the gold standard for many newspapers and online publications.
- Twitter Terms and Things You Should Know - I have listed the top 11 Twitter terms you should know to get you start using Twitter.
- FOLLOW: Choosing to sign up to receive someone’s Tweets.
- FOLLOWERS: People who follow your updates.
- GEOTWITTER: Tracks the geographical location of the most recent Tweets. This service is updated every minute.
- JACK DORSEY: Widely acknowledged as the inventor of Twitter.
- LOUDTWITTER: Automatically transfer your Tweets directly to your blog.
- MICRO-BLOG: A tiny way to blog. Twitter only allows 140 characters
- MISTWEET: A message or ‘Tweet’ that was sent in error.
- OBVIOUS: The American company based in California that created Twitter.
- POLITWEETS: A tool for tracking Tweets relating to politics
- QUOTABLY: Follow the Tweets of a particular user in a threaded style
- RUBY ON RAILS: The programming language used to create and develop Twitter.
- SUMMIZE: A tool for searching the content of hundreds of thousands of Tweets.
- Twictionary - If the above terms are not enough and you want to get more into the Twitter lingo, then you will have to go to Twictionary.com. There is every established term use in the Twittering world.
- Twitpic - Now if you get tired of just texting your twits, then there is Twitpic.com. This is where you can share your pictures on Twitter. What makes this so neat you can post to Twitter realm pictures of events as they are happening.
