Manual Twitter for those who still do not understand

This year, Twitter has become the online social network of more rapid growth and technological theme that everyone talks about. However, there are still many who do not know what it is and how much albotoro. If you're one of them, here we give a brief introduction to "twittosfera.

Twitter is basically a site microblogs. By registering, the user purchases a home page where you can post short messages - 140 characters maximum, only text and links to other websites.

Sounds too simple to be so popular. It is the simplicity which emphasizes a social network. The site promotes itself as a service easy to use.

The first thing a user sees upon entering is a common question as simple as: What are you doing? The user posts a response and its contacts can learn in real time.

Twitter recently announced that prepares versions of its site in German, French and Spanish. Perhaps when that happens, there is an "explosion" of Twitter in Latin America, as with Facebook. Meanwhile, Here's the main steps for using the service.

How to use?

Signing up is easy. Enter Twitter.com, click "sing up now". After filling the registration form and create the account, you can immediately begin to "twitter". Just simply type a message of 140 characters or less in the space that says "What are you doing" (What are you doing?).

But that does not end the process. To have someone read a post you must enter your microblog either through the address of your microblog (Example: http://twitter.com/usuario) or when one of his followers.

For fans, the first thing to do is start to follow other people. Just enter your microblogs and click on the "follow". If you want to stop following someone, simply look for the button that has a nut icon and click "unfollowed".

If among his followers there someone you do not want to read your messages, find the button on the nut and click "block". Now, if what you want is that their messages are read only by followers authorized by you, go to "Settings" (Settings), check "Protect my tweets" and ready.

To find your friends on Twitter, click on "Find People". There you can find "twittered" for user name, searching through your contacts from Gmail, Yahoo and AOL e-mail to invite others to join and find suggested by Twitter users.

Over time, your network of supporters and grow straight and you will be heard by more people. In the dynamics of Twitter there are several actions that will be useful to mention another "twittered" (@), citing a "tweet" from another user (RT), add a label (#), include a short link to another page, photo or video, and follow the most Tweeting the moment.

- Mention: If in your message you mention another Twitter user and want their fans to access the microblog of that person, just put an at sign "@" after the username. The tweet will show that name published as a link, a click on it will open your microblog. Facebook implemented this tool in September, clearly modeled on Twitter.

- Quote: When a user of Twitter and want to publish on your microblog a "tweet" without stealing someone else's credit, there is a convention usuada frequently by users. RT Write letters, meaning Re tweet (forward) at the beginning of the message, followed by the name of the user (Example: RT @ user) is used for their fans see this message and know who is its author.

- Tags: pound sign "#" is used to create Twitter "hashtags" tags that allow users to see all the "tweets" on a specific topic in real time. For example, if you post a message about cancer, writing # cancer the term appears as a link. By clicking on it, their fans can see all the messages of Twitter users who have included that tag.

- Short Links: Twitter allows you to include links to other websites. The problem is that there are many directions that are too long to fit in the 140-character limit. For this there are several sites that "shrink" the url (tinyurl.com, bit.ly, etc.). In fact, the same box of "What are you doing" addresses automatically shortened if the entire message does not exceed the character limit.

- Photos / videos: You can also post pictures and videos via external applications of Twitter. For example, the site lets twitpic.com sign in with your username and password for Twitter, you upload a photo, adds a comment and the service is responsible for issuing that message on Twitter with a link to the photo.

- Trending Topics: On the right side of the Twitter home page is a list of "Trending topics, which are the terms most used by twittered. It is a kind of barometer of the issues of most interest to users. By clicking on them, you can view all messages containing those terms.

London is named world capital of social networks

The British capital is establishing itself as the largest city in number of users of three of the major social networks da internet now: Twitter, Facebook and Digg. The three sites are especially popular in Britain.
According to a report by the Telegraph, about 10% of traffic from Digg Site information comes from London. "Britain is our second largest country, the first is the U.S.," said a spokesman for the social network.
London is the geographic network with the largest number of Facebook members, as confirmed by da-house. And, last month, the president and founder of Twitter, Evan Williams, said that London is the city that brings together users of the web of microblogs.

"I'm not surprised that Londoners are taking advantage of internet social networking," said Robin Hamman, an executive marketing consulting English. For him explaining this phenomenon comes from the fact that the British capital, with about 7.5 million inhabitants, has a relatively high number of young successful and working daily in offices with high levels of internet connectivity.
"This, combined with London's status capital of global communications, business and social, means that Londoners are more likely to participate in social networks that people in other cities of similar size," Hammam said the Telegraph.

Buy your friends in facebook

Who says you can not buy friends? An Australian company is selling online marketing friends and admirers to Facebook members after offering a similar service to Twitter users.

"Women are swindled on Facebook for U.S. $ 4,000.
The company advertising, marketing and promotions uSocial (usocial.net) said that targets social networking sites because of their huge advertising potential.

"Facebook is an extremely effective marketing tool," Leon said in a statement Hill, chief executive of uSocial.
"The simple fact is that with a great track on Facebook, you have an instant target group of people with whom you can connect and promote whatever you're promoting," he added.

"The only problem is that it can be extremely difficult to get this up and this is where we" he said. The company offers packages for Facebook, the Internet social network in the world, beginning in 1000 friends and reaches 10,000, at a price of between 177 and $ 1167.

"Everything we do is send them a welcome message or a friend request of the customer. If you decide to go ahead and add this person as friend or fan will, if not, then no," Hill told Australian media.

Facebook is now the fourth most visited website in the world. However, uSocial packages are not without controversy.

According to Australian sites, Twitter tried to block uSocial accusing you of sending spam to its members, while the Los Angeles Times newspaper reported that Digg.com, a website where people vote for their favorite news sites or, also tried to shut it out selling votes.