Welcome back!

Now that you are pretty familiar with tweeting, remember five things that you must do once in a while on Twitter:

• Share a link
• Share a pic
• Retweet
• Share some statistics
• Share anything!

How to share links on Twitter:

Twitter has a limit of 140 characters which makes sharing of longer links difficult. However Twitter uses the service of TinyURL to automatically shorten long links. You can use some advanced features which TinyURL has to offer(which most tweeters miss!):

1. TinyURL:

Its one of the most famous URL shortening services. You must use it because:

• It lets you create really short URLs
• It gives your users a chance to preview URLs
• It also offers a bookmarklet for faster use

2. SnipURL:

Offers mostly all the services TinyURL offers. It also has a bookmarklet. It lets you customize your shortened URL – so I can have something like snipurl.com/threetips. It also lets you shorten more than one website at once.

3. Doiop:

Another great URL shortening service which lets you add your custom keyword.

4. memURL:

Creates a mnemonic link from your URL. Also offers a bookmarklet.

5. DwarfURL:

Dwarfurl also offers you statistics as to how many times your link was clicked. These tracking and traffic statistics can help you a lot in your business.

Other services:

• Shorl
• URLtea
• TraceURL – the only service that needs you to register and login, but gives you good tracking and traffic results
• Tiny.cc

Note: One word of caution, do not post porn, racist, spam or virus-infested links on Twitter. Nothing will lose you followers as much as this.

How to share pictures on Twitter?

1. TwitPic:

Unarguably the favourite tool for sharing pictures on Twitter. Send pictures from a mobile phone to Twitpic and it will be posted on Twitter.

2. TwitPickr:

This is actually a TwitPic tool which posts your pics to Twitter as well as Flickr. This will save a lot of your time for sure!

3. Pixim:

Pixim not only lets you add your pics to Twitter, you can also tag your friends in the pics. It has a lot of social sharing and tracking build into it.

4. Snap Tweet:

Share Flickr pictures on Twitter.

5. Twitr Pix:

Share photos with your status updates.

Other Photo Sharing tools:

• MobyPicture
• VisualTwitter
• TweetPhoto – Still in private beta.

One that does them ALL!

We just crash-landed on one tool which claims to do all of the above – their idea is simple – share everything from one place! Welcome to Tweetube!

Tweetube lets you:

• Share webcam videos
• Share Photos and Pictures
• Share YouTube videos
• Share Website URLs
• Share via. email, from your phone and also share your links and bookmarks

Check it out here.

How to Retweet?

Retweeting means sharing or repeating interesting tweets by your friends or followers. A retweet is used to pass on links, quotes, pics, witty lines or breaking news on twitter.

Here is how you do it:

• Choose the tweet you’ll want to retweet
• Type RT @username the update you want to retweet
• Yeah, its actually as easy as that

How to find and share Twitter statistics:

Twitter, like any other social network, is a lot about numbers. The recent CNN vs. Aston Kutcher race to a million was a glaring example of the number frenzy.

1. Twitalyzer: One of the best Twitter Statistics and profile analyzer with loads to teach you(previously known as TwitCalc)

We wrote about it once upon a time here and here.

2. TweetStats:

TweetStats is another great service which lets you monitor your Twitter statistics and offers a lot more than that. We did a nice, lengthy piece on it here.

3.  Twitter Grader: Gives you your Twitter grade and your Twitter rank.

4. Twitter Counter: Graphs your followers and makes predictions. Gives you loads and loads of statistics.

Other services:

• Twinfluence – the interface can be pretty irksome but their statistics are not!
• Twitterholic – I think we did mention it here somewhere.

Phew! Now for step no. 5:

When we say ‘Share anything’, we mean it! Share an idea, share a thought, share a feeling, share your opinion, share tricks, memories, solutions, advice – share something on Twitter and you’ll be heard. Go ahead, say something!

We’ve come a quite a long way, and a lot still needs to be told about Twitter. So, Hang on! Also if you are finding these posts even remotely useful, don’t forget to digg it, stumble it, share it and most of all – TWEET it! Happy Twittering!