The Basics

Twitter Search is a powerful tool. Simply use the jobpost, jobs, job, employment, jobtips or various career related words with or without the hashtag to find thousands of job offers and ideas.

What They Say

see what’s happening – right now

Pros

• extensive search capacity
• real time – immediate results
• quick and painless way to reach thousands

Cons

• lots of competition

What Fred the Toolman Tweets?

Twiter Search is a great tool to get your resume out and search for a job opportunity.

Visit Twitter Search to find your perfect job : http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23jobs

The Basics

TwitRes, let’s you publish your full resume on Twitter. You can track and view stats and feedback. Just log in, upload your resume and share your link. Brought to you by the people at resume park.

What They Say

Publish your resume in seconds on Twitter

Pros

• quick upload
• easy to share your full resume
• can also put your resume on resume park

Cons

• one of many resume tools

What Fred the Toolman Tweets?

TwitRes is a great tool to get your resume out in the twittersphere.

Visit TwitRes to get your resume uploaded : http://www.twitres.com/

There are many Twitter clients available, some robust and some with a single or limited purpose.

Learning what to look for in a twitter client can help reduce the number of hours and tools required for your social media experience saving you valuable time, energy and money.

This is very subjective, everybody has different tastes, opinions and requirements.

1. Does it support your O/S?
2. Is it high capacity? If you can’t access it quickly, what is the point.
3. Desktop, web based or mobile
4. Is it clean and simple to setup and use? Are the streams easy to follow?
5. Can you manage multiple accounts? Is it easy to jump between them?
6. Can you manage and view your followers? Block, Report spam.
7. Is there a spell check feature?
8. Can you shorten your url’s?
9. Can you customize it to create groups, lists, favorites, search, keywords and other parameters?
10. Can you schedule & manage all your tweets? Sent, DM’s (in and out), @ replies, Scheduled, etc.
11. Are the conversations easy to respond and follow? Threaded?
12. Is there search, keyword, hashtag and other application integration like audio or picture sharing?

That’s a lowdown list of what to look for in a twitter client. If you ask these questions you will eliminate all the clients that don’t meet your needs and hone in on the one that is right for you.

Let me know what you look for and share with me anything I might have missed.

1. it makes it easier to write (and practice brevity)
2. therefore it is easier to read (short and sweet)
3. it’s interactive (two way street)
4. makes self promotion obvious (too much means you will lose an audience)
5. you can choose your community
6. you can choose what information you want to reveal and when
7. the news is in real time
8. the reaction and feedback is in real time
9. is easily accesible
10. incredibly cheap – the only cost is your time

What do you think makes Twitter a great promotion tool?

The Basics

Refollow is one of the few fully functional follow management tools.  Lets you filter, unfollow and follow your twitter user effectively.

What They Say

Twitter relationship manager that was developed by Originate Labs. Most of that won’t mean much until you dive in and play with it, so give it a spin

Pros

• easy management of followers and non followers with great filters
• quick access to twitter api
• very up to date and detailed user info

Cons

• doesn’t find new “ideal” followers

What Fred the Toolman Tweets?

Refollow is one of the best twitter tools and one of a handful of effective follow management tools. Will retweet this one permanently.

Visit Refollow to manage your profile: http://refollow.com/refollow/index.html

The Basics

Twitter Karma helps you sort and filter your followers. Login and WHACK your profile and retrieve your follower list. After you’ve filtered you can do a mass follow or unfollow on the users you have marked.

What They Say

Twitter desperately needs page navigation on followers / following list. Also sort functionality by type (reciprocated or not) is a must.

Pros

• does an effective job filtering and sorting
• quick unfollow or bulk unfollow

Cons

• would be nice to integrate into a client or twitter
• profile views limited
• perhaps batches of 25 to make review easier

What Fred the Toolman Tweets?

Twitter Karma is an effective follow management tool. Will add to list of followers.

Visit Twitter Karma to manage your profile:  http://dossy.org/twitter/karma/

The Basics

freezly helps you find coupons and giveaways that have been posted on Twitter for the day, saving you valuable time and money.

What They Say

We’ve developed an automated system to identify giveaways, filter out soliciting content, and display the giveaways in a fashionable manner.

Pros

• complete list of freebies, coupons, giveaways and deals
• nicely displayed
• simple to use

Cons

• could use a local feature
• integration with freecycle and other social sites

What Fred the Toolman Tweets?

freezly can help you find real bargains and freebies. Will add it to my list of followers.

Visit freezly to find great communities:  http://freezly.com/

the easiest way to promote your cause through twitter

The Basics

twibbon let’s you promote your cause or someone else’s by overlaying an image on your icon profile picture. Follow a trend, support a cause, promote your team. Thousands of causes and hundreds of thousands of users.

What They Say

a team who are passionate about the immediate and viral power of Twitter, and who believe that there has never been a better time for small groups of talented individuals to affect global change using the web.

Pros

• takes only seconds to add
• wide selection of causes
• excellent way to promote your cause

Cons

• perhaps more assistance in creating your own twibbon – a tutorial?

What Fred the Toolman Tweets?

twibbon is a nice branding touch. Already following this one.

Visit twibbon to tweak your profile:  http://twibbon.com/

1. want Christmas tips – follow @christmas on Twitter
2. want Christmas cheer – here’s a good list of fun people to follow
3. change your Twitter background & blog theme to a nice seasonal theme
4. put up a nice seasonal avatar
5. change your blog header
6. add a follow me button to your blog with a Christmas theme.
7. write some great Christmas content for your users
8. do keyword research and optimize your postings
9. use Twitter and other social media to search for users that are “looking for something” – don’t wait for your audience to come to you
10. send out some free gifts or deals to your online friends and audience
11. donate and promote a charity on your site this season – and then do it all year round
12. whether you get into the Christmas spirit or not – spread some Christmas cheer anyway

There you have it – twelve twitter twips for christmas to make your audience a little more festive.

simple siment – do one thing from this list to get in the spirit time: 5 minutes or less

content discovery for Twitter

The Basics

Tweet Miner is an easy way to bring fresh content to your users. A twitter client designed to search for targeted content with a clean and simple interface. Great for boosting the quality of content your community will read.

What They Say

• Bring the best content to your followers
• Schedule todays tweets in 10 minutes
• Be the SIGNAL not the NOISE

Pros

• very simple set up and interface – clean and easy to use
• fast searching for content with multiple methods
• easy retweets with options for scheduling

Cons

• too bad it isn’t a completely integrated client with follow management

What Fred the Toolman Tweets?

TweetMiner is a great way to share content. Will retweet daily to optimize my communities’ experience.

Sign up for TweetMiner now: http://tweetminer.net/