Approximately 24 hours ago, internet marketing firm HubSpot released its first State of the Twittersphere report for the fourth quarter of 2008, analyzing assorted growth rates, following/follower ratios, and geographic data.
Among the results, we now know about 7,500 people join the Twitter ranks every day; 35% of Twitter users have 10 or less followers; and nine percent follow nobody at all.
Twitter is hot.
While the world collaborates with Shel Israel and Laura Fitton writing books called Twitterville and Twitter for Dummies, respectively, and as various books about Twitter are currently available through your bookstore, here are some e-books, white papers, and special reports you can view today to help you tweet more productively.
- One of the best is the 48-page PDF e-book, A Geek’s Guide to Promoting Yourself and Your Online Business in 140 Characters or Less, written by the folks at GeekPreneur. It is free for the taking. Click the link and download the book. I did earlier this fall.
- John Jantsch of Duct Tape Marketing offers a shorter 9-page PDF book with the short title, Twitter for Business. It’s to the point, includes a number of screen shots, and is worth the download time for an overview.
- In exchange for your email address, John Haydon of CorporateDollar.org provides you a link to download Twitter Jump Start: The Twitter Guide for Small Nonprofits. I haven’t downloaded this yet, but the testimonials include some of my tweeps, such as Michael Martine and Rebecca Leamon.
- Kristine Wirth has allegedly written The Twitter Book, which you can edit and re-distribute, but it’s not there.
- Not a book per se, but TwitterBook.com displays a quick video by Roy Montero, showing you the basics of what some Twitter user pages look like, how to find common users in directories like Twellow, and more.
- How about the Twitter Handbook?
- Not to be outdone, Walter Prorok and Chris Vendilli joined forces to create The Twitter Report: Get Free Targeted Traffic from Twitter and Other Social Networks. I tried downloading it, but you have to bypass two multi-level marketing pages to follow more directions to receive it. I quit after the second page.
- I also question this $27 Twitter for Musicians guide.
- Finally, if none of the above options fit your needs, visit here or here for many links to Twitter e-books from PDF search engines.
There’s always Lolo and her Twitter Book Club.
What is missing here?
Related posts:
- Twitter is Not User-Friendly
- Why Twitter Goes Green and Why You Should Too
- Twitter Lists: A New Way to Follow
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Ari Herzog is an online media strategist and Newburyport City Councilor-Elect.
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Nice List. Tweeted this one
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Have you read them all? Do you recommend reading one in particular over the others?
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a great list of free e-books about twitter by @ariherzog [link to post]
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Craig, I’ve read the GeekPreneur one, at the top of the list. Very well made. The video by Roy Montero is on the money, too; and has given me an idea for some stuff to do in January…
Greetings Ari and a Merry Christmas to you and your family.
I wanted to take a moment to THANK YOU for your write up and mention of me and my Twitter video because it is most ENCOURAGING to see my one and only lonely video mentioned in the same breath as the other resources that you’ve listed here and commented on.
I’m honored as well, so thank you and I want you to know that I appreciate YOU.
Since I’m known to my friends as the Verbal Networking Guy I’d like to do a meet & greet with you on Skype (RoyMontero) or the phone (760-378-2539) when you have a few moments to spare. I enjoy meeting people and finding out what we may have in common to help each other. I refer to these folks as my divine connections.
Thanks again for your write up, Ari, and by the way, since I’m an SEO, I’d love to know how you found my Twitter Book site/video?
Hey Ari,
@cpenn published another one today, thought that might interest you:
http://www.christopherspenn.com/2008/12/26/twitter-power-guide-ebook/
Reading: 8 Free eBooks on Twitter. [link to post] Nice list Ari!
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Hey Neighbor,
Thanks for posting the Twitter Jump Start Guide!
John
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Thanks for the resources.
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Thanks for mentioning my German book – I am always happy to take stories and usecases for the accompaning german page about microblogging
I think you left out
http://www.happyabout.info/twitter/tweet2success.php
by Julio Ojeda-Zapata which I have not seen yet but some peers of mine mentioned it.
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Hi Ari –
I noticed the post above about “The Twitter Book” that I have on my site. I thought I’d let you know that you have to first enter in your name and email address on the site before gaining access to it.
So it is there but only for those who take the extra step in filling out the form.
Appreciate you posting the link.
- Kristine
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Thank you so much for this information. I am so glad that you included your notations about each entry. I recieved the link from @mayhemstudios. I was considering adding a new twitter account for our business at casa grande. I will look forward to reading these. I did something fairly rare for me and left our casa grande business website as my website. I am deciding whether to remake it or just branch out on twitter with it. Thanks again for a wonderful blog.
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Cool, that’s exactly what I was after…
Thanks for sharing.
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