TWITTER BADGES
You can drive traffic to your Twitter profile from your blog by including links to your blog’s sidebar, at the end of your posts, or even in your blogs header. Similarly, another easy and effective way to promote your Twitter content on your blog is by adding a free Twitter badge (also called a Twitter button) to your blog’s sidebar. These badges often say “follow me” or a similar phrase and may or may not include a graphic of the Twitter bird icon.
Depending on the blogging application that you use, the steps to add a Twitter badge to your blog’s sidebar vary. However, it’s usually as simple as uploading the Twitter badge image file to your blog, adding a text widget or gadget to your blog’s sidebar, and pasting the HTML code for the uploaded file into the widget or gadget.
Many web sites offer free Twitter badges. Following are a few popular sites to search to find a Twitter badge you like:
. TwitterCounter is a great name badge. You can get either a small chicklet or a large button.
. TwitterFollowBage is a small “Follow Me” box which moves down the page as you scroll. Clicking on it will bring you directly to your Twitter page.
. Twitstampe is a sleek and professional design that you can put a lot of information into.
. Twitter Buttons (www.twitterbuttons.com). This site offers several pages of free Twitter badges.
. TwitButtons : (www.twitbuttons.com). This site offers both animated and nonanimated free Twitter badges.
. MySocialbuttons : (http://mysocialbuttons.com). This site offers free Twitter badges as well as free badges for other social profiles such as Facebook,
LinkedIn and more.
. iStockphoto : (www.istockphoto.com). If you’re looking for a more unique Twitter badge, this site offers a variety to choose from. Note that
you need to sign up for an account and it costs a small fee to download images from this site (you must purchase credits to buy images for download).
To find Twitter badges, conduct a search from the home page using the keyword Twitter shows a partial list of Twitter badges available through iStockphoto.
Some web sites that provide free Twitter badges offer HTML code that you can copy and paste into your blog. These sites host the badge file for you. It’s always best to save the images to your hard drive and upload it to your blog, so you’re hosting it rather than relying on another site to host it for you.
USING THIRD-PARTY TWITTER APPLICATIONS
You can also find reviews for various Twitter applications on Laura Fitton’s Pistachio Consulting blog and web site (http://pistachionconsulting.com), Darren Rowse’s Twitter tips blog (www.twitip.com) and on the About.com guide to web logs (http://weblogs.about.com).
CLEANING UP YOUR TWITTER ACCOUNT
If you are a Firefox user, use the Greasemonkey script, Twitter User Classify. This shows at the top of every Twitter user page whether that person is considered to be a spammer or not.
Use the website Friend or Follow to find out who is not following you back. The site only requires your username and it gives you direct links to the people who are not following you back. You can unfollow them in return if you want to.
If you have less than 700 followers, you can use MyClear to weed out all the inactive accounts and remove them from your account. Or:
Twitoria – the only downside to Twitoria is that it will display details of all the suspended accounts that are following you, and you can’t unfollow a suspended account. Or:
UnTweeps – which you can sign into using the Twitter site. You can then specify how many days a person needs to have gone before leaving their last tweet (60 days). It will then show you a complete list of dormant followers who will automatically be unfollowed for you on your behalf.
To remove spam – the best application for this is TweetBlocker. Just log in and then run the scan. It will then show you a complete list of all the people you are following along with a “grade”.
The ones with the lowest grades are the spammers. Mousing over those accounts will show you some details of that account including how many people they are following compared to how many are following back. If they are following a vast number compared to a much smaller number following them back, they are most likely a spammer.
You need to open up a complete remaining list of who you are following (or view them in Friend or Follow), open each one up in Twitter and see if you want to keep following them. Using the Twitter User Classify Script, open each one up and see if they are saying anything remotely interesting to you. If not, unfollow them.
TWITTER DESKTOP APPS
Thanks to the Twitter API, there are many third party apps out there that are free:
. TweetDeck (http://www.tweetdeck.com). The text area for tweeting is at the top and you can shorten all your links using a “short URL” feature. Below that,
the app is split up into several columns so you can see everything that is coming in (these columns can be customized to suit your needs).
The first column is All Friends so you can see every single tweet from every single one of your followers. The one next to that is the Replies column, which as the name says, shows all the replies addressed to you. The one next to that is Direct Messages which, obviously, shows all the direct messages addressed to you.
But what really makes this good is that you can also add other social networks such as 12 seconds and Facebook.
If you love Twitter, this content distribution tool might be the one for you.
TweetDeck allows you to control much of your social media campaign through Twitter. Among its many capabilities, TweetDeck lets you update Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn, Google Buzz, Foursquare, and other social networks directly from Twitter (www.tweetdeck.com/features/update-in-a-click/index.htmltweetdeck.com). You can update your status, post comments, upload photos or videos, and follow friend’s activities on these other sites from the TweetDeck control panel.
The powerful desktop application TweetDeck, at www.tweetdeck.com, updates in real time. When someone sends a tweet, it appears in TweetDeck almost instantaneously along with an alert.
Using TweetDeck, you can:
. Create groups. Monitor the tweets of your most important followers.
. Create columns. Display mentions (tweets containing @yourusername), direct messages, and searches.
. Click a person’s username. See a person’s profile. This information is the same as you find in the person’s bio and their Twitter page. The links in a bio
viewed in TweetDeck are fully functional, and you can also see the person’s Twitter page by clicking the applicable link. In addition, you see all recent
tweets in a profile viewed in TweetDeck.
. Upload photos directly from TweetDeck. After you upload a photo, you see a URL to the image in the message box. Flash it out with information about
the photo and send the tweet.
. Monitor multiple searches. If you have more columns than you have desktop, a handy scrollbar appears at the bottom of the application.
. Twhirl (http://www.twhirl.org). This runs on Adobe AIR, looks like your ordinary instant messaging program with the steady stream of tweets
coming through. But you can also filter id down to replies, direct messages and you can also view Tweeters profiles inside Twhirl along with a preview
of their tweets. So you can see if you want to follow them or not.
You can also send regular tweets, replies and direct messages through Twhirl. The good thing about Twhirl is that you can connect a variety of other services.
. Twitter Gadget for Gmail (http://twittergadget.appspot.com). This places a Twitter box to the left of your Gmail inbox so you can send your
tweets, but it does so much more than that. The new version virtually integrates with your Gmail contacts so you can share tweets with them and
you can also access the main Twitter stream, your replies, your direct messages and much more inside Gmail.
To install it, you would go to the “gadgets” tab of Gmail and enter the gadget link which is found on the app website.
When you see the box in your Gmail sidebar, just enter your account details and when your Twitter account loads, click on your name to open up the rest of it in your Gmail main page.
When you see the tweets in the main part of the page, you have several options open to you.
The “share” option is where you can share the tweet with one of your Gmail contacts. But the downside is that it only works if your Gmail contact has this application also installed. If they don’t, then the share option won’t work.
Other sites to visit :
. MakeUseOf (http://twitter.com/makeuseof). Be informed of all new MakeUseOf posts in your Twitter feed.
. BreakingNews (http://twitter.com/BrakingNews). BreakingNews is a Twitter news wire service which sometimes scoops even the mainstream media.
. Twanslate (http://twitter.com/twanslate). This Twitter account offers short translations. Just follow it, then send it a direct message along
with the language you want to translate to and it will send you back a direct message with the translation.
So if you want something translated into French, you would write :
“d twanslate for where’s the car?”
If you want it put into another language, just direct message Twanslate for the full list of language codes (d twanslate help).
. Internet Movie Database (http://twitter.com/imdb). You can use this bot to make enquires on the Internet Movie Database, and you won’t
even have to visit the site.
. Stock Quotes (http://twitter/com/stock). Need a stock quote? This is the bot to use. Just type d stock followed by the stock
exchange name of the company.
. Timer (http://twitter.com/timer). Do you need to be reminded to do something soon? Then ask this bot to send you a direct message when it’s time.
. Forecast (http://twitter.com/forecast). Use this to find out the weather forecast.
. TrackThis (http://twitter.com/trackthis). Here you can track UPS, Fedex, USPS, DHL and several other carriers. Be notified through Twitter
when your package finally starts moving so you know when to expect it.
Several web sites provide lists of Twitter apps, such as the Twitter Fan Wiki(http://twitter.pbworks.com/apps), Oneforty (www.oneforty.com), and Twapps (www.twapps.com). You can also find reviews and options about Twitter apps on blogs about Twitter and blogging in general.
OTHER USEFUL TWITTER WEBSITES AND APPLICATIONS
. FriendorFollow (http://www.friendorfollow.com). This is a site that analyzes your Twitter account and shows you which people you are following
who are not following you back, and who’s following you that you are not following back. An easy-to-use interface with direct links to the Twitter
accounts so you can easily follow/unfollow them.
. Twittonary (http://twittonary.com). This is a dictionary of the various Twitter words and phrases being used. Such as retweet.
. Twitter Spam (http://www.twitter.com/spam). Twitter spam is the place to go to report any spammers. Just send them a message with the
name of the spammer (just don’t include yours anywhere in the message as your account may accidently get such down too).
. SecretTweet (http://www.secrettweet.com). This is a very interesting social experiment where people are encourage to leave their innermost
darkest secrets by Tweet. They can be posted via your Twitter account or anonymously, although for obvious reasons the anonymous option is used
a lot here. Secrets can be retweeted and you can leave comments for each secret.
. TwitPic (http://www.twilert.com/). With this you can set up email alerts for any Twitter search term you want. Do you want to track your username?
Or a specific company or trending topic? Then instead of constantly monitoring Twitter search, just set up the Twilert email alert and all relevant results
will be emailed to you.
. TwitterMail (http://www.twittermail.com/). This is a service where you receive a unique email address and any emails sent to that address will be
posted to your Twitter account (you will need to give TwitterMail your Twitter log in details). This service is very useful for people at work who can’t
have desktop clients open on their work computers.
. Real-URL (http://real-url.org/index.php). This tells you what the actual URL is so you can decide if it is a safe site to visit.
. Tweetmeme (http://tweetmeme.com/). This allows you to see at a glance the most popular pages being discussed on Twitter. You can also get
a Wordpress plugin so you can put the “Retweet” button on your blog and enable your visitors to send your blog stories to Tweetmeme at the click
of a button. TweetMeme works similarly to TwitThis but provides a few additional features. Example: When you use the TweetMeme app, you can
place a button at the end of your blog posts (or wherever you choose) that people can click to automatically tweet the URL to your blog post.
The Retweet button can also display the number of times the post has been tweeted, which is particularly useful if your blog is popular and content is
tweeted frequently. The perception for your blog audience is this, if a lot of people are tweeting a blog post, it must be good. You can also put the
Retweet button in your emails, web site, RSS feed, and more, making it a versatile tool that can help you promote yourself and your blog in multiple places.
. Bit.ly (http://bit.ly/). In order to get as much of the 140 character limit as possible, all URL’s should be shortened.
. Twisten (http://twisten.fm/). This searches tweets about music being listened to, brings them all together and throws in a play button so you can
listen to those songs too.
. digsby (www.digsby.com). Receive email alerts, perform instant messaging, and manage your social media accounts. This desktop application is available
as a free download for the Mac, Pc, and Linux.
. hellotxt (http://hellotxt.com). You can use this web-based app to manage your social media. Sign up for a free account to read, update, and
organize your presence on multiple social media networks.
. Tweepler (www.tweepler.com). Making managing your Twitter followers a breeze by using this free service. After you enter your Twitter username
and password, which aren’t recorded, a list of your followers appears. You can then post followers into these three buckets :
. Ignore Followers you don’t want to follow back.
. Unprocessed : Followers you aren’t following.
. Follow : Followers you’re following. Your goal is to review names in the unprocessed bin and add them to either the Follow bin (and then you’re
automatically following them) or the ignore bin.
. Twitdam (http://twitdom.com). Check out this database from time to time to see what’s new and exciting. It has every conceivable app for desktop
and mobile devices.
. TwitPic (http://twitpic.com). Upload your images to this picture-sharing service and then add the URL to a tweet to share them with your Twitter
followers. You can also upload images to the site from TweetDeck. Many people like to share photos and images through Twitter, but Twitter doesn’t
offer an option to upload and link to images online. That’s where TwitPic comes in handy. With TwitPic, you can upload images from your mobile
phone, camera, or computer and share them in a tweet. You can even add a description that appears beneath the image.
When a person clicks the link in your tweet to your TwitPic image, they not only see that image, but they can also leave comments that display beneath the image.
. Twitterfeed (http://twitterfeed.com). Feed your blog posts to Twitter and Facebook. Promoting your blog content via Twitter is an effective way
to boost your blog posts into your Twitter updates. After you set up your Twitterfeed account and link your Twitter profile to your blog, a new tweet is
automatically published each time you publish a new blog post. That tweet includes a snippet from your blog post and a link to that post.
You can also use Twitterfeed to update your Facebook profile with your blog posts, and you can track your feed statistics by using Twitterfeed.
Make sure your Twitter stream includes more tweets than the automated updates from your blog via Twitterfeed. Your Twitter stream gets boring when it only includes automated updates.
. twittervision (www.twittervision.com). When you’ve tweeted so much that your fingers are about to fall off and you’re convinced you have
carpal tunnel syndrome, check out this Mercator projection map of the world. A flag pops up from a random area of the world where someone just
sent a tweet. Read the message quickly because another one pops up quickly.
. TwittCurly (http://twittcurly.com). Track the URLs mentioned most often in tweets.
. twtpoll (http://twtpoll.com). Find information by creating polls for your Twitter followers. You can create a Twitter-only poll for no charge. You can
create web polls for a fee, add branding to polls, and sponsor polls.
. TwitThis (www.twitthis.com). If you want to drive traffic to your blog, TwitThis is a great Twitter app for you to use. TwitThis is a very simple Twitter
app that allows you to include a TwitThis button or link on each of your blog posts. It integrates easily with most blogging applications and gives your
blog readers the opportunity to tweet your blog posts with the click of a button.
. TwitThis uses TinyURL (http://tinyurl.com) to automatically shorten the URL to your blog post, so there are no extra steps required for the person
who clicks the TwitThis link or button on your blog post to tweet it. They simply need to log into their Twitter account, add a message if they choose,
and that’s it. That person has tweeted your blog post for their entire list of followers to see in their Twitter streams.
. Tweetie (www.atebits.com). Tweetie is similar to TweetDeck in that its primary benefit is helping you organize your Twitter activities. The application
must be downloaded to your computer hard drive to use.
Unfortunately, if you use the free version, ads appear in your Twitter stream. You can remove the ads by paying a registration fee. Tweetie offers a few features that users really like, such as threaded tweet conversations and easily accessible user details.
. Social Oomph (www.socialoomph.com). If you publish tweets throughout the day, there’s a greater chance that more people will see them.
The problem is finding the time to continually tweet during the day. Some people find it easier to write a number of tweets at the same time and schedule them to publish at multiple times in the future. Twitter doesn’t offer a scheduling feature, but Social Oomph does.
With Social Oomph, you can write multiple tweets at the same time and schedule them to publish at multiple times of your choice in the future. Of course, you can always publish spontaneous tweets through the day, too. However, with Social Oomph, you can feel confident that more of your followers will have a chance to see some new content from you throughout the day, depending on then they’re online and using Twitter.
. Twellow (www.twello.com). It can be hard to find people on Twitter unless you know their real names or usernames. Fortunately, there’s a Twitter
app that makes it a bit easier to find other people and promote yourself. Twellow, is often referred to as the Yellow Pages of Twitter. You can add your
own listing to Twellow for free, so other Twitter users can find you. Similarly, you can search for Twitter users to follow through Twellow. You can search
for people and companies as well as by category.
You can also find people with similar interest to your own and in specific locations using the following popular Twitter apps – Geofollow (http://geofollow.com), Localtweeps (www.localtweeps.com), and WeFollow (http://wefollow.com).
. TwitterCounter (http://twittercounter.com). Just as you can promote your blog content through your tweets, you can also promote your
Twitter content on your blog with TwitterCounter. This Twitter app enables you to include a widget on your blog that invites readers to follow you on
Twitter and shows the number of Twitter followers you have. The perception is that if a lot of people are following you on Twitter, you must be publishing
great tweets! It’s easy to create and customize your own widget using TwitterCounter.
You can also access statistics via TwitterCounter related to your Twitter activity as well as the activities of other Twitter users, including some of the most popular twitterers!
. TweetBeep (www.tweetbeep.com). TweetBeep is a third-party Twitter application that alerts you via email when your chosen keywords are found
on Twitter. It works similarly to Google Alerts. You just visit the TweetBeep web site, enter your chosen keywords in the online form, select how often
you want to be notified when your keywords are found, and you’re done. You’ll start to receive emails that include links to tweets using your keywords at
the time you designated.
There are a few limitations to the free version of TweetBeep. Example: You can only set up ten alerts and receive emails at specific intervals, and those emails can only include up to 50 instances of your keywords.
TweetBeep is a great way to keep track of conversations about you, your blog topic, and so on. It’s also a great way to find people who are tweeting about topics that interest you whom you might want to follow, retweet, and so on in order to build relationships with them.
. Yfrog (www.yfrog.com). If you want to upload and share images or videos via Twitter, then yfrog is a great Twitter app for you. yfrog, you can
upload images and videos from your computer, a web cam or another URL. You can also use yfrog from your iphone, and it integrates with a variety of
other Twitter apps such as Tweetie and TweetDeck.
The yfrog interface is easy to use. You can upload your image or video, add a message, enter your Twitter log in information, and you’re done. A new tweet is published in your Twitter stream, which includes a link to your image of video on yfrog. Other users can leave comments on your image or video via yfrog and retweet it.
Another useful Twitter app for sharing webcam videos, photos, pictures, YouTube videos, and URLs is Tweetube (www.tweetube.com).
. OpenBeak (formerly called TwitterBerry) (http://orangatame.com/products/openbeak). OpenBeak is a third-party Twitter application that allows
BlackBerry smart phone users to access and post to Twitter directly from their handheld devices. The application isn’t as pretty or feature-rich as some
other Twitter apps are for other smart phones (such as tweetie for iphones).
. CoTweet, makes it easy for multiple Twitter users to publish tweets to the same Twitter profile.
This Twitter app is particularly useful for companies that employ multiple people to publish content to the company’s Twitter profile each day. It’s also useful for blogs that are written by a team of people who each want to publish content to the blog’s Twitter profile.
You can manage multiple Twitter accounts with CoTweet, and you can access statistics, assign tweets to colleagues for follow up, schedule colleagues to be “on Twitter duty” at specific times, and more. It’s a feature – rich Twitter application that can be used in a variety of ways depending on your needs.
TWITTER TIPS AND TRICKS
There is a great website called Social Oomph, which can do quite a few things, but its main function is to give you the ability to send your Tweets out later. You can give this site your Tweets and specify the time you want them posted to the Twitter site. They will then take care of it for you. When you make an account and log in, they give you quite a few options to choose from.
See the “Publish When” part where you can specify the time you would like your Tweet published. If you look to the right of the screen, you’ll see the options “Time Zone”. Clicking that, you will then be asked to specify your time zone. Once that is entered and saved, go back to your Tweet and enter the time you want it sent out. Choose the account you would like to send to and save it.
Another possibility for scheduling future tweets is Twuffer.
TWITTER MONITORING TOOLS
. Backtweets (www.backtweets.com). Searches for links mentioned on Twitter, from Backtype.
. CoTweet (www.cotweet.com). Allows multiple people to communicate, in sync, through corporate Twitter accounts.
. Social Oomph (www.socialoomph.com). Formerly tweetlater.com, one-stop shop to monitor and manage Twitter.
. twalala (http://twalala.com). Twitter client that filters your Twitter stream by keywords, has a mute button.
. TweetBeep (http://tweetbeep.com). Like Google Alerts for Twitter.
. TweetDeck (www.tweetdeck.com/features/follow-topics-in-real-time-with-saved-searches/index.html). Auto-update search results from
Twitter on multiple search terms, one of many tools available.
. TweetMeMe (http://tweetmeme.com). Aggregates popular links on Twitter for popularity reporting.
. Twellow (http://twellow.com). Analyzes public tweets by categories to narrow search and identify influential tweeters in your categories.
. Twitter search (http://search.twitter.com). Twitter’s own search filter with advanced queries.
TWITTER BROWSER PLUG-INS, EXTENSIONS, AND INTERESTING WEB SITES
Twitter has become one of the most popular social media sites. In addition to its web site and its desktop and mobile phone applications, it has lots of browser plug-ins to enhance your Twitter experience or tweeting skills.
The following lists describes a few Twitter browser plug-ins:
. irdpie: store as bookmarks the URLs you tweet. This capability can come in handy as a reference. (www.birdpie.com).
. Blip.fm: this music-sharing web site with a Twitter account, if you need to be an internet deejay and entertain your followers, this is the place
to go.(http://blip.fm).
. FileSocial: at this file-sharing web site, you can share with your Twitter follower’s photo’s, videos, PDF files, Power Point presentations, and
more. (http://filesocial.com).
. FileTWT: share files with your Twitter twibe. (www.filetwt.com).
. FlashTweet: build your twibe by acquiring targeted followers. You can try the service free for 14 days. (http://flashtweet.com).
. FriendorFollow: see which Twitter users you’re following aren’t following you and vice versa. You can also use the application to create a list of your
friends, people you’re following who are following you back, which is an excellent way to streamline your twibe. (www.friendorfollow.com).
. Geochirp: search for specific conversations within a given radius of the area in which you live. Enter a topic in the search text box and the site returns
a list of tweets about the subject. (www.geochirp.com).
. Twable: quickly find out who you’re following that is or isn’t following you and who’s following you that you’re not following.
(http://twable.net/">http://twable.net).
. Twitbin: manage Twitter using a browser side panel. You can use the application to send and receive tweets, send links, and more. This Mozilla
Firefox plug-in works on Firefox 2.0 and newer for Mac and Windows users. (www.twitbin.com).
USING TWITTER ANALYTICS APPLICATIONS
Twitter Analyzer, at www.twitteranalyzer.com, dissects your activity on Twitter and offers information about these categories.
. tweets : The number of tweets sent over a given period.
. chats : The number of conversations you’re involved in.
. popularity : The number of times you’re mentioned by other Twitter users.
. reach : The number of Twitter users your messages reached.
. subjects : The topics you talked about plus the percentage of your conversations that were about those topics.
. hashtags : The topics you specified by hashtag with a legend showing the percentage that each hashtag was used compared to all hashtags.
. links : The recent links you tweeted, with a legend showing the percentage of each link compared to all links.
. apps : The applications you used in conjunction with your Twitter activity.
. other information : Additional tabs that let you monitor friends, the number of your mentions, and the people you’ve mentioned.
. Tweetstats, at http://tweetstats.com, creates graphs showing what you’ve been up to on Twitter. See the number of tweets sent per day,
tweet density during specific times of day, and people you retweet.
. TWINfluence, at www.twinfluence.com, measures your influence on Twitter. Enter your username to find out where you rank on Twitter.
. Twitterrader.com, at http://twittergrader.com, shows how you stack up against other Twitter users. After you navigate to the site, enter
your Twitter username. In a few seconds or longer, if you have lots of followers you see your grade, rank, and other information. You can also see
your trend, which is a graph showing how you’re progressed in adding followers to your ranks. You can also analyze your followers, to see a list by
ranking, and analyze the people following you.
ADDING WIDGETS TO YOUR WEB SITE
Widgets give you the capability of displaying your Twitter updates on your web site and are fairly easy to integrate on your web site.
When you want to display your tweets on your web site, you use a widget.
To add a Twitter widget to your web site, follow these steps:
1. Log into Twitter.
2. Click Settings. The Settings page appears.
3. Click the Connections link on the right side of the page. The Goodies page appears.
4. Click the Widgets link. The Select Your Widget page appears.
5. Click the My Website link. The page refreshes to show you the options available for your web site.
Here are your options:
. Profile : Lets you display your most recent tweets on your web site.
. Search : Lets you keep web site visitors informed about current events by displaying Twitter search results for five events or conferences.
. Faves : Lets you show off your favorite tweets.
. list : Lets you put a list of your favorite tweets on your web site.
Everything except the Profile widget directs your web site visitors to someone else’s tweets.
The following steps show you how to add a Profile widget.
If you aren’t familiar with cutting and posting HTML code into a web page, consult your web designer for help.
6. Click Profile Widget. The Settings section for the Profile widget appears. If you’re logged in, your username should appear.
7. Click Preferences. The Preferences section for the Profile widget appears.
8. Set these preferences :
. Poll for new results : Your widget can poll for new tweets. It is recommended not using this option unless you tweet 24/7.
. Include scroll bar : Include a scrollbar with the widget if you’re displaying lots of tweets. A scrollbar on the side of the widget lets users scroll and
view all displayed tweets.
. Behavior Load all tweets and then choose the number to display or choose a timed interval, the number of tweets that occur before the display
refreshes. If you choose the latter, you have the option to loop tweets and choose the interval between displayed tweets.
. Number of tweets. Choose the number of tweets to display from the drop-down list. This option isn’t available if you choose a timed interval.
. Display Avatars : Choose whether to display an avatar next to each tweet.
. Show timestamps : The timestamp shows when the tweet was created (the default setting). Disable this option if you tweet infrequently.
. Show Hashtags : display hashtags that are in a tweet. Disable this default option if you don’t want to display hashtags.
9. Click Appearance. The appearance options for your Profile widget appears.
10. Choose color options. You can enter the hexadecimal code for the color, if you know it. If you don’t know hexadecimal code, ask your web
designer to do it or click the color swatch and mix your own color.
11. Click Dimensions. The dimensions options for the widget appears.
12. Accept the default measurements or enter your own. This task may be another one for your web designer to handle. If you try to stick a big
widget into a small space, you blow out your web design.
13. Click Test Settings. The widget refreshes to show you what it will look like with the current settings applied. If you don’t like what you see, click
the applicable option to change the settings.
14. Click Finish and Grab code. The code to enable the widget in your web site appears in a window. Alternatively, you can click the Add to Blogger
button if you have a blog hosted by Blogger.
15. Copy and paste the code into a section of your web page. You now have a widget.