Terms to cover: Followers, following, @replies, RT, tinyurls, DMs, hashtags
Traditional news orgs, BNO, government entities, NPs, businesses
Create your own newswire. Create columns with search terms, find trending topics, look for story ideas, find new followers
Answering the basic question: “What are you doing?” Automated feeds or intentional links to stories/blog posts. Teasing stories. Breaking news.
Request input on a story, talk back to other people, pass along info you find interesting/important/amusing, collect data, give #FF recommendations. Steph’s $10 or less success.
From the Web. Functional, but unweildy.
Via text to 40404. Doesn’t require a smart phone, just a texting plan. You can choose which tweets are sent to your phone.
Smart phones have several apps for Twitter that allows you to read your tweetstream and more.
For the desktop, Twitter clients like HootSuite, twhirl and TweetDeck help you manage tweets, search Twitter and track stats.