Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez has joined Twitter. Not because he wants to connect with his supporters or try to win over his detractors. Chavez joined, because he said he would, and that’s it.
I doubt that we’ll see much interaction between him and his followers. He’s got 16,000+ followers as of this writing, and he’s following 5 people back.
Welcome to the party President Chavez. Pay attention to what I’m about to tell you:
I hope that you’ll listen to your detractors instead of trying to throw them in jail. You can learn …

There is a common fallacy on Twitter and if you fall for it you’ll likely end up disappointed with your Twitter experience. The fallacy is the “follower fallacy.”
The common wisdom was, or is, that you need a lot of followers on Twitter to be effective. The more followers the better. The more followers you have, the more money you’ll make. The more followers you have, the more famous you’ll be. What this did was create a sort of “arms race” to see who could get the most followers in …

I read somewhere that applications and new technology don’t take off unless they have a “killer application” or a “killer app.”  For twitter, you’d think the fact that news usually breaks first on there, or that the first pictures from just about any big news event show up on twitter first (remember the plane in the Hudson?). You’d think that news delivery would be Twitter’s killer app.
You’d be wrong.
Follow me down this path for a moment…
I was thinking about the fact that there are pornographers on Twitter. To me, it …

While perusing on Twitter, I came across a tweet that had the following Google search string in it:
site:twitter.com bio location tx 100…1000000 followers -400
Unfortunately, I don’t remember who posted it, if you happen to catch this post, please let me know so I can give you proper credit.  What that search string does, is it tells you all of the twitter users in Texas that have more than 100 followers.
The string is for an advanced search on Google. Most people never use the advanced search functionality, but every so often, …

Let me start off by saying that there are lots of things that I love about Twitter. I love the instant connectivity, how it brings news to me immediately, as the news happens. I love how I can find out about and read a lot of different articles that I would probably have missed had I not been on Twitter.
Having said that, there are some things both about Twitter and on Twitter that I find annoying. These are not show stoppers for my by any means, these things are just …

I’ve been working a lot on my twitter presence. As such, I’ve discovered that there are some things that are more likely than other to get me to unfollow you. In talking to other tweeple (people on twitter) I discovered that a lot of us share these same guidelines.
Without further ado, here are my 5 things:
1. Marketing bot.
If all you do, is twitter about your program, your ebook, your this, your that, your the other and how I can buy your stuff using a special coupon or whatever, you’ll …

One of the neatest things about Twitter is that it is easy to automate many functions. One of the most misunderstood and misused functions on Twitter is the direct message.  There are third party services that let you automatically message people that sign up to follow you on Twitter, I do not believe that you should auto direct message people when they follow you.
Let me say, that I used to auto-message people when they followed me back in my early days on Twitter. I thought that a quick welcome message …

In case you don’t know, by default twitter allows you to follow up to 2000 people before limits start to kick in. Some of the limits are based on the number of followers that you have, and other limits are based on things like API calls and whatnot that only the uber-geeks among us understand.
Most people won’t care about the 2000 people follow limit since they have no interest in following more than that number anyway. Regardless, I think that a lot of people will want to know how …

On twitter, the criteria or guidelines to use for choosing somebody to follow are to a certain degree, something very personal. Ultimately you decide what is worth your time to follow or to read up on.
If you don’t know where to start, I can give you a few suggestions.

Something you can do, is to do a search for a things that interest you using twitter search. You can start your search by visiting search.twitter.com and do a search in there for a subject that you are interested in.For example, if …

So we’re talking about twitter, which is a micro-blogging service that has seen exponential growth in the last few months. Twitter has been in the news media more and more in recent times which has exploded the ranks of its users.
So in this article I’m going to talk a little bit about how to get people to follow you. What sorts of the things should you twitter about that will get people to follow you and more importantly, what are some things you should not twitter about that’ll most likely …