Helpful links for learning about Twitter

This is a supplemental link for my Edge Business Magazine workshop, Twitter for Dummies, scheduled for Tuesday, April 14. I welcome journalists using Twitter to add links you have found helpful or journalists you recommend following. I posted some tips for using Twitter on a separate post.

Below are lots of links, grouped but in no particular order, to help out Twitter newbies, to help those wanting to move beyond the basics, and to help you decide whether Twitter is worth your time.

Twitter primers

Twitter in Plain English video on YouTube. This is the quickest, clearest primer I’ve seen.

The Ultimate Guide to Everything Twitter by Web Designer Depot. This is the most detailed primer I’ve seen.

Twittering Tips for Beginners by David Pogue. Pogue spends a little too long whining about the Twitter hype, but does offer some helpful tips. 

Twitter Explainers

From today’s New York Times: Putting Twitter’s World to Use

Greg Lloyd gives one of the best explanations of the business or professional use of Twitter in — Explaining Twitter — One of Three Places for People. At the end, he has several valuable links that I won’t repeat here.

For a simple explainer, try Explaining Twitter to Grandma Rose by Hildy Gottlieb.

Twitter advice

Twitter tips from 25 Tweeting Travelers by WorldHum.

How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media by Beth Kanter

Twitter fun

Twitter cartoons (slide 30 is my favorite)

Twitter glossaries

Twitter Fan Wiki 

Sitemasher Twittonary

Soge Shirts Twitter glossary

Steve Buttry posts with Twitter advice (some of which fit in categories above)

Many of these have a strong emphasis on Twitter’s application to journalism. I can’t say how relevant these may be to your field, but I include them and leave that for you to decide.

Ready to twitter to learn what it is

Social networking: a marathon where you sprint

Twitter is an essential reporting tool

See how Twitter covers breaking news

Bad judgment doesn’t taint the platform

Again, Twitter shows value for reporting

Understand Twitter before you write about it

Seeking advice for journalists using Twitter

Using Twitter to follow the North Dakota floods

Twitter advice for journalists

I’ll apply the same disclaimer here about whether these might be applicable in your work.

Twitter tips and tricks by Patrick Thornton

Twitter to journalists: Here’s how it’s done by Monica Guzman

5 Tips to Grow Your Twitter Presence from Darren Rowse

20 Twitter Badges to Show off Your Tweets on Mashable

Newsrooms Can Grow Twitter Followers By Using Twitter For Link Journalism by Scott Karp on Publish2

TwiTip by Darren Rowse.

So why aren’t you Twittering yet? by Robert Niles

Twitter: A workshop for journalists by Mathew Ingram.

Sarah Hartley shoots down excuses for not using Twitter: Five barriers to journalists using Twitter

Top Twitter tools for journalists by Gina Chen

How journalists can use Twitter by Gina Chen

The ROI of Journalists and Magazines Using Twitter by Dan Blank

Twittering away standards or tweeting the future of journalism? by David Schlesinger

Using Twitter in the newsroom by Meg Thilmony

JournoTweeting by Ellyn Angelotti

Experimenting with Twitter: How Newsrooms Are Using it to Reach More Users by Mallary Jean Tenore

10 ways to find people on Twitter by Paul Bradshaw

Mandy Jenkins‘ Zombie Journalism blog,

Thanks to Mary Kay McFarland of the Charleston Gazette and Mandy Jenkins of the Cincinnati Enquirer, who sent me links directly; to Mathew Ingram, who used several of these links in a slideshow that he linked to; and to lots of tweeps who steered me to other links since I started on Twitter. Thanks also to Andria Krewson of the Charlotte Observer, who sent some advice that I posted separately.