dizzysoft softwareGet Local Traffic Through Your Twitter Account
Twitter is a great way to communicate information you are uniquely interested in. You follow people on Twitter because they provide information you are looking for and don’t find anywhere else.
Twitter is even more useful when it is used as a mobile app. You can receive all sorts of useful tidbits through your cell phone or even as a text message, if you don’t have a data plan on your phone.
Here’s one example: you can get local traffic updates through your Twitter account. Here’s how: create an RSS feed with traffic information and ask FeedTwit to send it to your Twitter account as a direct message.
How can I make Twitter mobile without a data plan?
Twitter is designed to go mobile- with its short messages and immediate updates- but how can someone without a data plan on their phone make Twitter mobile?
Text messages help make Twitter mobile. All you have to do is pair your mobile phone with your Twitter account (under “Settings” and then “Devices” from your Twitter web page) and you can update your Twitter profile by simply sending an SMS. This will also help make Twitter mobile because Twitter will forward your direct messages to you as texts.
Twitter Manners
I consider myself a Twitter noobie (although I did tweet a couple months before Oprah) but over that time I’ve noticed some things about what makes a good tweet. Perhaps this is a rant. I know I don’t always follow these rules either. I just want to encourage good tweeting practices.
Remember, a tweet is not a text message. I know many people, like me, send tweets by text message, but I think we should think about them differently. A tweet is a broadcast to a wide audience of followers while a text message is to a particular person. This fact draws a couple conclusions: