The Secret To Twitter

By Angsuman Chakraborty, Gaea News Network
Saturday, March 29, 2008

Robert Scoble recently commented that the secret to twitter is to follow more people, that way you get to learn more. I agree that is it important. However that doesn’t give you the real value out of twitter. You can get more out of twitter.

Twitter is a constant stream of chat from various known and unknown people worldwide. My interests are limited to few topics like java, jsp, php, wordpress, ruby, web 2.0, etc. And I do not want to exclude people I don’t know about. Often they make valuable comments too.
Previously Scoble’s way was the only way to make any sense out of twitter. Now we have a better way. You can track what people are talking about your topic of interest.

I use pidgin (instant messanger) to view twitters. You can use any instant messanger or your cell phone. To track any twitter on wordpress, I just have to type (once):
track wordpress

That is all it takes to track all conversation on WordPress. You can stop tracking a topic by using untrack. off removes all tracking.

Filed under: Headline News, Web, Web 2.0, Web Services

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Discussion
May 15, 2009: 2:16 am

We love Twitter and can live with the short downtimes…period. If someone comes up with a better tool, then we’ll all check it out, until then, thanks Twitter!

The Songnumbers.com Team

March 30, 2008: 2:24 pm

You can go to a twitter page and see the people I follow. For example if you go to my twitter page, you will see all the people I am following (as icons).

March 30, 2008: 1:41 pm

hi there,

is there a way to know whose twitters you follow ? something like a RSS share (aka google reader ?)

thank you,

BR,
~A

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