Here is a nice Slideshare on how to build a great Twitter Strategy by Diane Danielson.

Twitter is a powerful platform for increasing exposure for your brand and broadcasting your message to a growing targeted audience.

The best way to get a bigger following on Twitter is to tweet regularly and post informative, valuable tweets that people want to read.

1) Create an Attractive Twitter Profile :
Twitter is meant to be a tool to connect to people with the same interests as you. Fill out your bio. Your bio is the only place you have to tell people who you are. A good bio will give other users the context to keep in touch with you.

2) Retweeting:
Retweeting is another way to increase followers. Re-tweeting is a popular way to share a useful or interesting tweet. Re tweeting pushes your @username into foreign social graphs, resulting in clicks back to your profile

3) Twitter Lists:
Twitter List is a list of people on Twitter that are brought together under one profile so that all of the aggregated tweets can be seen in one place. By getting added to a Twitter List, your exposure, traffic, and followers on Twitter will be increased dramatically – especially as the popularity of that Twitter List that you’re part of grows.

4) Encouraging Conversation and Offering Value:
The best way to grow your number of followers on Twitter is to engage yourself as much as possible. Make sure to reply to Tweets from other accounts, and communicate with other users through the Direct Messages feature. Make tweets that encourage conversation: ask compelling questions, ask for opinions, and discuss controversial and interesting topics with other users.
Offering value is the easiest way to make people remember you. For Ex. Start a contest that offers a prize for following your account.

5) Maximize Visibility through Social Media Profiles :
Place links to your Twitter profile everywhere. Link it on Social Networking sites, blogs, email signature, and everywhere else you are online. People will follow you because they want to know you more and this can be a way to generate leads.

6) Tweet your Pictures/Videos:
Upload Videos and Photos to Twitter. Pictures and Videos are heavily retweeted.There are an array of Twitter mobile apps and Tvider is one such Twitter app which gives you the ability to tweet multimedia, on spur of the moment using mobile or computer.

7) Twitter Directories:
Add yourself to twitter directories as you will get constant followers .Add yourself in proper category, because this way you will get targeted followers.

Twitter is a great resource for web site traffic and to keep you informed about the world around you.

Tvider is now available on Android Phones. Tvider gives you the ability to tweet multimedia, on spur of the moment. Instantly capture a picture or record a video/audio, add some text and update your Twitter status using Tvider on your Android phone.

Tvider Android Features

• Supports all 3 kind of media- Video, Audio, Pictures and movies

• Tools to instantly generate media using webcam and mobile camera.

• Option to publish a pre-recorded media from your phone memory or SD card memory.

• Instant Micro Media Tweeting experience designed by limiting the media length to 60s in case of video and audio.

• Reply and Re-Tweet the media Tweets in your timeline.

Search for ‘Tvider’ on Android Market from your phone and download it!

Compatible Device List -

HTC – HTC Dream,HTC Magic(HTC Sapphire), HTC Hero, HTC Desire

T-Mobile – T-Mobile Pulse (Huawei U8220), LG GW620 Eve

Motorola – Motorola Devour, Motorola CLIQ(Motorola DEXT)

Samsung – Samsung I7500(Samsung Galaxy), Samsung Moment, Samsung I5700(Samsung Spica)

Get Tvider for your Android smartphone to make every tweeting experience a memorable one.

Twitter announced on its official blog that it is granting a handful of new search startups partners full access to all its data feed of public tweets— a.k.a. the “Firehose”.

According to the blog post, the company is “happily turning the Firehose on for some new partners focused mainly on exploring the incredibly rich field of real-time search and discovery.”

Earlier the full spectrum of data available in the “Firehose” was previously only available to Yahoo, Google and Microsoft. With this announcement, Ellerdale, Collecta, Kosmix, Scoopler, twazzup, CrowdEye, and Chainn Search will all join on as partners with Twitter and have access to the entirety of Twitter’s data stream in real time.These companies range from funded startups to part-time, one-person operations so theye came up with a fair way to license access that scales with their business.

With access to the full Firehose of data, it is possible to move far beyond the Twitter experiences we know today.

Source : ReadWriteWeb

Check out a great video that details out social media facts and figures, produced by the author of Socialnomics.

Check out a great Slideshare by Paul Gillin , for using Twitter in a business environment.

This presentation features plenty of examples and best practices from successful members of the Twitter community.

PCWorld is a global computer magazine and your trusted source for tech product reviews, tech news, how-to’s and free downloads.

PC World recently published a slideshow that lists “10 Free BlackBerry Apps You Must Have” .

Tvider for Blackberry is one among the Free Blackberry Apps.Here is the screenshot..

Tvider content will be hosted to S3 Amazon disk servers now onwards. Due to this major production upgrade on Tvider.com, Tvider’s current mobile clients might face some difficulties.

The probable issue likely to arise is:

Media tweets might not get viewed / played, since there is some trouble in downloading from the newly migrated servers. (Media is downloaded first and then played.)

This issue has been solved in the latest version of the Tvider application for all mobile platforms.
We strongly recommend Tvider mobile users to download the updated version for an uninterrupted media tweeting experience!

Kindly mail to support@tvider.com , in case any problem other than that mentioned above, is faced.

CrackBerry.com is one of the most trafficked BlackBerry community site on the net which is dedicated to CrackBerry users featuring news coverage, how to guides, forums and BlackBerry software.They bring you the most current news, information, best stories from the mobile industry

Tvider for BlackBerry Smartphones has been reviewed at Crackberry.com.

Tvider is designed to simplify the way you tweet images, audio and pics.Besides BlackBerry, Tvider is available for iPhone, Brew, Symbian and J2ME, with support for Android and Windows Mobile coming soon.

If you’re looking for a Twitter application to accompany your main Twitter client, or simply want to focus on your media tweets, Tvider is right up your alley. I prefer a client that offers the whole package, so that I’m not switching back and forth. I do find that you can send media tweets much more quickly with Tvider than with most other clients. Tvider is free, so if you want to check them out, head over to http://tvider.com/mobile.

Read the Whole Review at Crackberry.com and do Checkout Tvider >>

Photography plays a vital role in our daily routine. The human mind is hardwired for visuals. Newspapers, science, research, journalism, advertising , etc – pictures add value to all fields. Here we have created a list of well known photographers on twitter. Our small efforts will help you to interact with them – and discover their work. We found their work very interesting.

Carlos Marquez
Carlos Marquez has been a Master Photographer for more than 17 years and has won many awards. He has given seminars in Mexico and USA.

BrokenDoll
Photographer, Songwriter, & Plant Eater from Los Angeles California.

Jason Bayer
Owner of J MAN STUDIOS. More than 20 years of experience. Apple, Photo and Social Media junkie.

Jc Olivera
Jc Olivera is the Premier Latino Entertainment Photographer, his work appears in several national leading publications and websites.

Thomas Hawk
Quiet Observer of Modern Nihilism with Box that Captures Light

Chase Jarvis
Maniac Photographer Director

Henie Reisinger
Writer, Photographer, Artist, Passionista, Social Media Participant, Cerebral Provocateur, Founder United Nations for Global Kindness, Kindness Ambassador

Jeremy Cowart
Photographer to the Stars and the Suffering. Founder of Help-Portrait.

Jim MacMillan
Pulitzer-winning visual journalist, social media daredevil, and trauma journalism fellow; now teaching convergence journalism at the University of Missouri.

Justin Schuck
Photographer, designer, producer, writer, consultant, friend.

MilliGFunk
Blogger, photographer and explorer of life in small town, Missouri after life in New York City.

Jen Consalvo
Internet, building cool apps and leading great teams. photo buff. chronic case of wanderlust.

J. Pollack
Freelance wedding, family, commercial, and editorial photographer

Todd Randall Jordan
Live/Record/Share, Coder/Analyst/Soc Med Pusher/Photographer/Blogger