Prime Time for Twitter
Part One
Introduction 
I wasn’t sure what I was getting into when I first joined Twitter but I had a good feeling about it because friends and business associates had been steadily recommending it. I wasn’t disappointed.
Micro History of Twitter
On August 8th of 2006 a bookmark for Twitter.com appeared on del.icio.us. and by the end of the day there we’re over4,500 more. >twitterfacts<
Important Reminder!
If you haven’t opened a Twitter account yet please read all of the following before you do. You’ll be glad that you did. 
As soon as you’ve finished opening your new Twitter account you’re taken to the Twitter Directory Page. This is where you’re given the opportunity to follow anyone you like. Make sure you follow at least 20 people right off the bat.
This is because as soon as you’ve made your initial selection and returned to your twitter home page and hit refresh, you’ll see a tweet by tweet feed coming from everyone that you chose to follow. In a very short time, at least one if not many of those you followed will follow you right back.
Now that your account is open and active you can sit back, relax and get a close look at your Settings panel.
The Settings panel has 7 menu tabs:
Account Password Devices Notices Picture Design Connections
1st Page – The Account page opens first and it contains 9 fields. All 9 fields may be edited or updated anytime. You’re even allowed to change your Twitter username without losing information related to your prior username. The only required field is of course the username. The other 8 fields may be omitted. However, if you’re interested in developing a large following or any following, it’s important, at least, to fill out the Bio field with an accurate description of yourself and your interests. I like to fill in every
field on the Account page because it signifies some level of transparency to everyone.
2nd Page – Password - Change your password on this page anytime you like.
3rd Page – Devices – The Devices page gives you the ability to bring your cell phone into the twitter-sphere. You have the option of turning twitter text feeds Off or On anytime and the ability to send tweets from your cell. Twitter doesn’t charge for this service feature but your cell phone service provider will count all your tweets as SMS text messages.
4th Page - Notices - This page is self explanatory but make sure that you check the email notification box so that you’ll receive an email every time someone follows you or sends a direct message to you. You can also leave it blank and simply check your stats on your twitter page itself.
5th Page – Picture – Here you can upload your photo. If you’d rather upload an unique icon or image that’s okay to. Some tweeters have excellent custom icons instead of head shots and they can make quite an impression if done well.
6th Page - Design - This is the fun part. Twitter has included a sweet and easy site design panel. You may choose from a dozen stock themes for your background image or you may upload any background image of your own.
Also, instead of using a full screen image you may upload a tiled image that can be repeated to create a full screen background. You may also choose the background color and font color of your homepage sidebar.
This concludes Part one of Prime Time for Twitter. Part Two will cover the 7th page of the Settings panel – Connections and the importance of utilizing Twitter software and resources.
If you’d like to read an excellent in-depth view of Twitter check out Randy Gage’s article, Twitter Manifesto.
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Hi Steve. Thanks for comments. Its nice to see another fellow decorater out there. I was looking into decor niche as everything would be defo coming from my own knowledge of the business but after my research it seems that the only niche worth following is how to teach others to make money. I was a little dissapointed at this as now my research needs to go a lot deeper into the unknown. As J T is one of my best friends im sure i will be able to soldier on and hopefully one day i could be as successful as him because i have seen his road to success first hand.Anyway, good luck with the course and your own success
regards
kev
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April 25th, 2009 at 1:28 am
Hi Kevin, You’re welcome. I understand your dissapointment but I’m not sure that the only niche worth following or developing is the “teach others to make money” or the “success mentoring” method. Those are extremely prevalent trends for online marketers yet much of what the coaches are teaching can be applied to other niches with various tweeks to the methods being applied. I’m sure you’re already aware of Clickbank, eBay, or butterfly marketing to name a few other profitable avenues of online commerce. There’s more than one field to plow but choosing one or deciding to invest in one can be very trying without some guidance or prior experience. We’re bound to get a better grip on the plow with John’s help. Good Luck and see you in the forum.
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Hi Steve,
Twitter is something i really need to get to grips with ,great post it reminded me !
TTFN….Ed.
http://www.john-edwards-blog.com
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April 25th, 2009 at 1:35 am
Thank you John, I’m glad you’re interested in twitter. It’s been very helpful and enjoyable for me the last couple of months. There’s a moderate learning curve in getting comfortable on twitter but it’s not too difficult. I hope the Prime Time for Twitter series is of some help to everyone new to social networking or twitter.
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Hi Steve,
This is a great article on Twitter, very clear and informative. I have been meaning to learn about twitter for a while now, and thanks to your article it all seems a little clearer. Looking forward to reading part 2 right now.
Thanks for your comments on the James Dalton Matthews Band. Yes I was the recording engineer, and we had a great time during the sessions. Unfortunatley the band has since split but James is still writing and making records. If I can contact him I’ll send you a link to his site.
Best Regards and good luck with the course.
John
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April 25th, 2009 at 1:51 am
Hi John, I thank you for the compliments. Twitter’s been topping the charts these days. I enjoy twitter and all the variety it may bring to online social networking, so writing about it is also enjoyable. I hope you find link to JDM band site and good luck in our masterclass. Steve D
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good use of coloured headings Steve – makes it look more interesting. I am waiting for a sister site called twerp, as some twitterers would do well there
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I mean that in the nicest possible way
ciao John
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April 22nd, 2009 at 10:59 pm
John, I thank you for the compliment. Formatting text colors is one of the easier tasks on wordpress-admin. – formatting the text itself is another story. That can be mind bending because visual text editing view and HTML text editing view don’t completely mirror each other as you might hope. There’s some discrepancies when moving from one view to the other. I have to study admin panel features (and, sigh..html code) much more before I feel able to format text and images as well as I’d like. BTW, a twerp is half a tweet. Shall we coin it? LOL
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Useful post, Just subscribed to your feed.
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It’s hard to find knowledgeable bloggers on this topic, but you seem like you know what you’re talking about! Thanks.
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