The big day is finally here. All the preparations are in place and the world is watching. If like me you might not be able to be in front of a TV all day (somebody has to fire up the BBQ!) you can follow the exciting build up, the main event and the festivities after all on Twitter.

Official Royal Wedding Tweeters…

@BritishMonarchy – The official account for the Monarchy.

@ClarenceHouse – Follow along for exclusive Royal Wedding pics.

@BBCRoyalWedding – Official account for BBC Royal Wedding coverage. Bringing you Royal Wedding related updates.

Royal Wedding Twitter Game…

Blabber is a prediction game. To play, just predict 4 words that you think Huw Edwards will say most during the BBC’s live coverage of the Royal Wedding.

Royal Wedding Hashtags…

#RoyalWedding

#rw11

#BBCWedding

Enjoy the big day

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This is the first in a series of Twitter How To posts testing and experimenting with Google Chrome extensions you can use to make Twitter even more awesomer!

Originally started by users of Twitter copying and pasting, the retweet function has now been built into Twitter’s web interface. Unfortunately it only allows you to quote the tweet being retweeted word for word. If you want to be able to edit and add your own comments or thoughts to tweets here it is…

Go install the extension Retweet Old School.

This very simple Chrome extension adds a “Retweet Old School” link to every tweet of every Twitter page right next to, or in place of, the regular Retweet link.

That button does the entire copy/paste job but it lets you customize your RT before sending it. It was designed for everyone like you who likes the old fashioned RTs, letting you add your comment to the retweet.

Is this post helpful? Is there a Chrome extension for Twitter that you think I should try? Let me know your thoughts in the comments below.

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As you may know I’m usually a complete Hootsuite fan. But recently I was asked about using Twitter’s own web interface with Google Chrome extensions, so I set about testing just how much functionality I can add to my Twitter home page stream and answer the question of…

Do you even need a Twitter client?

Read the first in this series of Twitter How To posts testing and experimenting with Google Chrome extensions you can use to make Twitter even more awesomer!

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Are you are wasting time tweetin out each time you have a new post up on your blog or website?

It’s okay, your not alone. Better still I want to show you how to tweet your blog or website updates auto-magically, right now!

In case you haven’t heard yet, I love to leverage the awesome powers of Hootsuite. Today’s “how to” uses another great tool built right in to the best Twitter web app available. If you have a Hootsuite account already, your set to go. If you haven’t, well shame on you… go get yours right now!

The only other thing you need is the URL for your blogs RSS feed. This will look something like this… http://www.twitter-howto.com/feed

(I just click the RSS link on the home page of my blog and copy the link from the address bar at the top of my browser.)

Lets get started.

First log into Hootsuite, then hover over the settings tab on the left.

Next click on the RSS link from the settings menu.

Once you have feeds set up this is where you can edit or delete them, for now click the “add new feed” button.

Now type in or paste your RSS URL in the top text box.

Choose your settings. Unless your posting more than once a day, a 24 hour check period should be fine.

Again unless your site is getting new content or updates more than once a day you will be fine with setting Hootsuite to tweet one post at a time.

Now you can set some text to appear in each tweet but remember this takes up vital characters in your blog tweets. A good use is to include a hashtag or if your SEO inclined try including a keyword phrase.

All thats left to do is choose which profile(s), yes with Hootsuite you can send a sites RSS feed to multiple profiles to tweet!

Then hit the “save feed” button and your done.

I hope this has helped you, if you have any Twitter How To questions be sure to tweet me @Twtr_Gator, leave a comment below or check out our new Twitter-HowTo Questions and Answers page, thanks

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The Twitter universe has exploded in recent years largely due to the wonderful applications that have been developed to improve the Twitter experience. These same developers need money to continue to have the time to create their applications and make the user experience even better. This is where FeaturedUsers.com comes into play for developers and at the same time makes it easier for you to get more followers on Twitter.

You can buy impressions on FeaturedUsers.com and have your Twitter profile shown across the featured users network of aps and websites. This will create more opportunities for your Twitter profile to be found and give you more of an opportunity to grow a following. When you pay for these impressions you are providing funding to the people who work to make Twitter better and more user friendly.

If your like me you love stats, especially when the stats show how much value you are getting from a purchase. FeaturedUsers has this covered too providing graphs and figures to show the number of impressions your ad has had, number of click throughs and compares them against your increasing number of followers.

By purchasing FeaturedUsers impressions you should grow your followers dramatically and as if gaining a larger audience of followers was not enough of an incentive, you also have the knowledge you are actively helping the Twitter eco-system.

Remember: New followers gained from the FeaturedUsers network are people that have actually chosen to follow you by your profile that interested them, as oppose to following and un-following tactics and software which provide followers that have only followed you because you followed them.

Unlike some advertising programs FeaturedUsers does a great job of getting you set up real easy. Just sign in with your Twitter name and your Twitter bio will be automatically displayed on your profile ad that is displayed across the network of apps and sites.

Go check it out, it is free to sign up and packs of ad impressions are quite reasonable. Oh, and pretty soon you could be seeing your profile here on THT as I have also joined the FeaturedUsers network.

What do you think to this post? As always I’d love to get your feedback so tweet me @Twtr_Gator or leave a comment below

*Note: The links in this post do NOT earn me any payable monies but do earn me free profile ad impressions (as I use this service myself) and only if you actually order a pack of impressions on the network.

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Twitter has become one of the most, if not the most, common ways for people to keep in touch and share information. Just by making your usual tweets you can keep friends and family informed of your life and potential job providers aware of your situation. I know this may be a new concept for some, but you would be well informed to learn how to use Twitter for finding a job.

But, what do you do if you do not have a massively extended network of friends on Twitter?

Use an app like TwitJobSearch.

This will help you keep your job search information straight, find jobs openings posted on Twitter and actually apply for them directly! This handy little program will help you divide information into categories and save the jobs you are interested in.

Just search for a job title you are interested in and you will get a list of relevent openings that TwitJobSearch has pulled from Twitter. Now for the clever bit…

For each job listing you can select several options.

1. View Job: Click this to be taken directly to the site that tweeted the job opening to find out more details.
2. Save: Adds any job to to your profile to come back to later.
3. I Can Do That: One easy click lets you apply for the job and alerts the potential employer of your interest.
4. Skype Me: Like it suggests, sends an alert to the employer advertising the job that you would like them to contact you via Skype about this position.

To make the most of these excellent features you will need to log in with Twitter connect. Once you do you will automatically have an account on TwitJobSearch created to which you can add an extended profile and key set of skills, your prefered contact details and link to your LinkedIn profile or any other online CV or Blog.

Savvy employers are already using Twitter to check out canidates for new jobs, but now you the potential employee can also how to use Twitter for finding a job.

This is the way of the future of the internet, job posters are looking to post their opportunities in the most popular places where they can get the best candidates. Twitter is definitely at the top of the game right now and you should be able to find anything you need from this job search engine.

I really hope this helps you if you are looking for a job right now. Maybe someone in your Twitter following is looking for a job so be sure to share this with the retweet button at the top of the post.

If you have found a job via Twitter let us know in the comments below or tweet me @Twtr_Gator

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Twitter has become so globally recognized for connecting people all over the world, many people do not realize the impact Twitter has had on local communities. If you know where and how to look, Twitter can give you the ability to find fantastic people in your local area, town or city.

In no particular order, here are my top 5 ways to find Twitter users in your town.

1. Twellowhood: The local search function of Twellow.com, think of this as the phone book, or yellow pages for Twitter. You can search on a local level with Twellowhood very easily by way of an excellent clickable map. Use Twellowhood and you will find great tweeps in your city or town but you can also register your Twitter account on Twellowhood to add an extended bio and make your Twitter profile more findable for other users. (Business tweeps, remember to include your keywords in your bio!)

2. Twitter Search: This is the search that is offered by Twitter itself. You can use the search box on your Twitter home page but will need to use search operators to go local. However, the super helpful Twitter folks provide an excellent advanced search page. Use the “Near this place” option to find tweets from any specific place in the world.

3. Tweetup: “Real world” meetups of people on Twitter normally arranged around a specific interest, place or event. There are organized Tweetups scheduled all of the time by people on Twitter looking to find other people in their area. Do be careful and safe, but Tweetups are a great fun way to find other Twitter users in your area.

4. iPhone Apps: There is a plethora of ways to find local Twitter users in your area with iPhone Apps made especially for Twitter. Many of the gazillion twitter iphone apps have local search functions that enable you to see tweets from a particular place. The great feature of local Twitter search on the iPhone is that by using your iPhones geo-location, you can find tweets from the place you are actually at when you search. So if you are at an event, you can can find people who are also there and see what they are tweetin’ about the event before deciding to find them and chat face to face.

5. Nearby Tweets: This site finds out where you are based on the information you have and then gives you Twitter users within a radius of you. This site is beautifully extends Twitters own search engine. With features such as saved locations, adjustable radius of tweets and saved keywords, Nearby Tweets is a fantastic tool for discovering Tweeps local to you.

I know there are more services out there for aiding your local search of Twitter. Which have you used let us know in the comments below or tweet with me @Twtr_Gator

Better still!

Get involved at the new Answers.Twitter-HowTo site by helping Merlin Kay ( @NightVisionHunt ) with suggestions for the best way to search locally on Twitter.

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Part of marketing is being able to find out what is working and what isn’t so you can develop a better, more efficient and successful plan. Gaining and losing followers on Twitter is very much the same. The diagnosis to your issues will be easy once you see the results, do more of what is working and less of what isn’t. If you use services like Qwitter and Chirpstats you can find out just which messages are working and which are not!

Chirpstats (formally Twitterless) was the first service to come along and offer you the ability to explore who was quitting your tweets and why. This service offers to tell you how many people have quit following your tweets, who they are and maps out a graph of when you lost followers. Whilst not providing the most detailed follower insights available Chirpstats is free, just follow @chirpstats on Twitter.

Qwitter has come along and taken over top billing in this category by being able to give you the account names of the people who have quit following and the last tweet you sent before they stopped following you. This is a once-a-day email update that will tell you who has quit and the premium service also includes: after what messages the unfollow occurred, your own account page and crucially for me multiple Twitter name support. This service also offers to help you identify spammers and spam bots that may be harming your Twitter account.

I personally use Quitter and recommend you do too if you are wanting to build a strong Twitter following. At just $4.99 a year this is a service that really is great value providing the best follower insights available right now.

Use Quitter to discover exactly which tweets turn off your followers you will soon find yourself providing tweets that to your followers are far more interesting. This will in turn naturally lead to you getting more Twitter followers and just as importantly, more engaged followers!

Just before you head off to check out these services for yourself please drop me a note in the comments below. What did you think to this post? Do you know of any alternatives for keeping check on who unfollowed and why you are losing followers?

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