All a Twitter: A Personal and Professional Guide to Social Networking with Twitter
ISBN13: 9780789742285Condition: NEWNotes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark. Product DescriptionMake Twitter work for you–right no...
- ISBN13: 9780789742285
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product Description
Make Twitter work for you–right now!  Twitter! Everyone’s talking about it. Its membership grew over 700% in just one year! Now, learn how to make the most of Twitter–in your personal life, your business, everywhere! All a Twitter delivers quick, smart answers to the questions everyone’s asking about Twitter: What’s it about? What’s it good for? Is it worth your time? How do you get started? Where can you find great Twitter feeds to follow? How can… More >>
All a Twitter: A Personal and Professional Guide to Social Networking with Twitter
I’m not a big fan of tech books. My eyes tend to blur as authors bombard me with fact after fact and it takes me several readings to get all that dry information straight.
This book is different. Tee Morris has written a book that feels like a friend is showing you around Twitter, complete with tips and pitfalls (love the ‘Little Birdie told me’ and ‘Fail Whale says’).
There is a lot more to this social media craze than is immediately apparent, and I can only hope plenty of people read this book and have their eyes opened to all the ways Twitter can work for them. This is the book that I will be putting in front of our computer manager so that he has some idea of ‘this Twitter thing.’
Rating: 5 / 5
I don’t usually read these types of books – I like to read for fun. But guess what, this book IS fun. I have been on Twitter for about 6 months and this answered some questions I had as well as giving me new information on compatible applications, building a network and “twetiquette”. I’m not using all that Twitter has to offer just yet so will keep this book around for future reference.
Rating: 5 / 5
If you have been contemplating jumping on to Twitter for the first time, if you’re a long term Twitter user (hello, my name is Gary and I’m a tweetaholic) or if you have ever been put into the situation where someone asks you to explain Twitter, you should immediately purchase All a Twitter.
As several of the other reviews have mentioned, although All a Twitter contains all of pertinent information a new user will need, it also is extremely valuable for an experienced user as well. (I especially liked the chapter on Twitter clients) All a Twitter even contains advice on how to make Tweeting from your phone an entirely enjoyable experience.
And maybe most importantly to me, (as also mentioned previously) this book does not read like a textbook. The author obviously knows what he is talking about, but is not above having fun with his intended audience.
Extremely well written and exceedingly informative, All a Twitter is definitely a must for anyone using, or considering using, Twitter.
Rating: 5 / 5
I sat on the review of this excellent book with a long title, All A Twitter: A Personal and Professional Guide to Social Networking with Twitter, for some time. I happened to meet Tee Morris at BlogWorldExpo this fall and see where the humor and energy in the book came from. He does an excellent job of guiding the beginner and professional through the phases of Twitter.
His entry chapter What is Twitter (and What It Is Not) lays the groundwork for the reasons most people don’t understand the whats and whys of Twitter and explains them in humor and direct example. For those that still don’t get it, or those using it and don’t get it, this is for you.
After a couple chapters on establishing an account, setting up your profile and the please do’s and please do not’s, he talks of working beyond the website. He does have chapters on outside tools, and I shook my head in amazement he left out EverythingTwitter as a great source to find whatever you need. Yes, I mentioned this to him jokingly in email and he took it in great fun as he must have heard from many people.
Pay special attention to the chapter on The Trouble with Twitter as it does an excellent job of covering the fail whale, issues with some very personal information sharing, signal to noise ratios and dealing with the explosive growth of Twitter and how it affects the technical performance side.
Chapters 10 and 11 cover how to use Twitter for personal and business use respectively and make the most benefit of it no matter how you wish to use it. From communicating with friends and family to promoting products/services, events, conferences, podcasts and more. In all he covers how Twitter is a tool to be used in so many ways and gives concrete examples of each.
Chapter 12 is an eye opener for most that only hear hype around using Twitter. Tee talks about the darker side of what goes on and the dymanics of how we are all interconnected. Who do you follow? Who do you ignore? Should you block? What about spammers? Bots? Incomplete profiles and more. It is succinct and honest about some of the behind the scenes issues that power users see daily.
Mr Morris leaves with why he is on Twitter and how he uses it in daily work and promotion before an appendix of some terms and more tools.
At ~260 pages, this is a must have for those entering social media with Twitter and makes for a clear and concise read with just enough technical information for any level of user. Amazon has it for only [...] right now and I think that is quite the bargain. Published by Que.
Disclaimers: This book was sent to read free of charge through some promo people and I was not obligated to say anything good or bad about it. I actually read the darn thing and enjoyed it, even with how I use Twitter on a daily basis. After meeting Tee Morris I saw some of the drive and determination he had and it made the remainder of the read even more enjoyable as you can place the author with the book.
I also run [...] and shook him fiercely at BlogWorld when he failed to mention us, the largest review catalog of Twitter tools and add-ons. Kidding, I never shook him. He might have tripped, but I am unaware of who did it.
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Rating: 5 / 5
Twitter is all the rage. It seems to be the new Facebook. Everywhere you see people madly creating 140 character (or less) messages on their Blackberries.
I have to admit that I have been rather hesitant about Twitter. I keep getting images in my mind about receiving messages about what someone had for breakfast or that they were going to the washroom. I know for a fact, I don’t have that kind of time to waste.
However, after reading All A Twitter, I’m beginning to see that Twitter has far more potential. Yes, there are going to be people just wasting time on Twitter but there are also people who really have something interesting to say. The key is discernment, both in writing tweets and in who you choose to follow.
Rating: 5 / 5