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Twitter tips - tools for your tweets



You are reading this post about Twitter. That's what you would answer to Twitter's simple question, "What are you doing?", which is the entire premise of Twitter's existence. Getting people to answer in 140 characters or less, by IM or logging onto Twitter.com, what it is they are doing at that particular moment. Big stuff, right?

Constant stream of consciousness chatter is the lifeforce of Twitter. And this constant feed of the bright and banal is turning a lot of people into Twitter addicts. What makes this so? It could be the sheer ease of use to Twitter. You don't have to construct an entire blog post or for that matter, even a full sentence. Just a thought, a word, an impulse to share and you can Tweet (or post something on Twitter).

To Tweet or not to Tweet
Warning: if you're the compulsive type, you may want to move onto the next post and stop your habit before you even have a chance to start it. (We're not making this up. According to Alexa, Twitter's user reach has increased 526% in the last three months). Now, for those of you who aren't the addictive type or who like to throw all caution to the wind, let's investigate what awaits you in the world of Twitter.

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TwitThis website button and bookmarklet debuts

If there was a category we could apply to things that spread faster than wildfire, the craziness that is Twitter would likely be the first example you could use for just such a category. One only needs to check our Twitter tag to find hacks like automatically twittering your blog posts, mapping out tweets and even putting Twitter on autopilot for you. But why stop there? New TwitThis buttons and bookmarklets are likely to take the web by an even bigger storm. As you might imagine, the button is ideal for placing on your website or blog, allowing readers to easily tweet (hopefully in a good way) about whatever you wrote. Fortunately, a full-on WordPress plugin is provided along with the raw code.

The bookmarklet, on the other hand, should make things a lot easier for the avid Twitter user who can't wait for website owners to adopt the button. Both tools make use of TinyURL (though in our opinion, urlTea has some cooler things going on) to ensure the link you're tweeting stays intact.
All of this is provided for free, as we can't find any donation links, and TwitThis even surprsingly offers a support email in case you have questions or ideas.

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