twitmdu2010 meet – A good init on twitter awareness
by karthikselvakumar
Plot to escape :
I used to worry at every Sundays why I have to waste my precious hours in boredom CAT class in TIME and always used to seek a chance to escape from it . By this time I got a tweet from twitmdu2010 .Its really amazing to hear a IT techtalk being organized even in madurai that too free of cost ( rather not like other money gaining useless workshops or conferences ) .Even I didn’t had a chance to register online I went directly there asking for spot registration.
Welcome to twitmdu2010:
Fortunately their welcome was pleasing and well-organized which I didn’t even expect . Then after a short intro to twitter and how it works they started the session .
Why and how to use twitter :
At the start they frankly mentioned twitter is used by 90 % people for their boredom and to kill time on something. Well then bloggers too used spam their followers with unwanted posts an blah blah ..But the main aim of every twitter user is to gain as many followers as possible . They may be ranging from personal thoughts about a user or a brand based canvasing or any tips and new things about technology.Anything it may be the main mantra to get as many followers is Quality Content in your each and every tweets.
The two keys @ and # are explained where @ is to gain attention of particular user and # tag to make other people make their search way easily to you.Then inorder to contact celebrities you like and ask them or to know what they are doing at present is easily possible through twitter since it has ‘on the go’ support from iPhone or PC even through sms channels around the world .
Do’s about tweets:
Even they clearly mentioned 140 characters is more than enough for displaying your view try to make it within 100 characters . Because retweets may add you name with @ tag . Next thing is choose you name as small as possible . Lecture by Mr. Kalyana sundaram he said why he choose his user name as “$5″ was really good and others too try to have shorter one like that .
Don’ts about twitter:
If you tweet about several things and diverge the followers from what they want then sure you gonna loose them .So streamline your passion towards a single line or at least HashTag your tweet with appropriate words.Bad thing you may have to be mentioned about twitter is following huge number of peoples with a intention that you may get huge knowledge from all parts of the world by doing so. Best case is to have 35 to 50 followers whom you think worthy and you actually know about him.Tweets are not intended for grocery or wholesalers business ( you can try google business as choice for that ) . IT and IT related stuffs gain more trends and importance in twitter.
Tweets as News Agent:
Amazing facts are even NASA tweets the current status of space and many geo-testing plants tweet the earthquake prone area to save people . Many news like tiger woods have been first put on twitter other on any outstanding news channels like CNN or BBC .
Twitter API development :
Going on towards twitter development any one can start developing twitter application using twitter API for any language. I tried it with java and python and found it working 
.Choice of which API to choose depends on the programmers perspective and its speed of refreshing .I heard something like more than 250 times ping from API per hour will black list particular user and don’t show further tweets. Its a sad news for me 
. But developers can claim a 20,000 ping per hour by just priory asking permission to twitter developers .
Added services on twitter :
For URL shortening and spamming others ( sometimes useful 
) use bit.ly.
similarly you can share anything as in other social network like .
* picture upload by twit.pic
* feed updater by twit.feed
* upload a video by twit.vid
and so on additional services are emerging for twitter .
Sad Incident about # tag :
Then heard a short session about CCD sucks with tag #CCDsucks . Really humorous .To be in precise whenever yu get a negative remark about you in twitter with a # tag say for e.g) #karthikselvaSucks
just dont reply to it by using same tag but reply to such negative tweets by adding #karthikselvaResponse tags and mention you reply clearly to particular user who gave you such remark. Never use the same hash tag to reply and loose your reputation yourself.
Im sorry I missed the afternoon session and I found really worthy to spent my time there @twitmdu2010
Thank you for organizing such a great event twitmdu2010 and expecting more camps like this
But I still have a doubt how and why twitmdu has to organize this informative camp for free ??
Nice round up Karthik. Few correction it is @dollars5 and not $5. Sad that you haven’t turned up in the afternoon session where we had twitFUN.
Thanks for coming and meet you soon again.
//But I still have a doubt how and why twitmdu has to organize this informative camp for free ??//
Why does twitter offers it services for free first of all??
How does it earn??
Is twitter earning anything??
No ads, nothing – then why/how this much investment ??
The camp is free only for the participants however we had sponsors for the event that includes Dot Com Infoway, Galatta and co-sponsor Cogzidel. The Event Director Mr. Venkatesh felt that it is high time that Twitter has to reach to the Madurai audience which has a good potential in the future.
Every Social Media website has its basic services free and sites like Twitter, FB, Orkut etc are completely free. Twitter is working on paid platforms and hope it will be implemented soon. The investments are through venture capitalist to make it grow. Its all business and you will come to know about it as you get experience.
@Raghavan
Thank you sir
Ya missed out twitFUN
Expecting great events like this sir
Nice round up with the total event. You would have include the interesting topic regarding Mashup in your post.
Good sum-up of what happened, Karthik! To your question – “But I still have a doubt how and why twitmdu has to organize this informative camp for free ??” My answer: Awareness camps work only if they are free. Otherwise, the no. of turnouts would have been not this much. After all, even on the web, we go for the FREE things first.
@karthikselvakumar – Welcome and sure more events on the pipeline
hi nice post,
just wanna adding some good url shortening left, its http://shor7.com can make intetifier your url. so you can short your url according to your identifier word to make more easy to remember.
once gain.. thanks for your info.
@Pandiyarajan Thank you sir . But I unfortunately missed the AN session .
@Raghavan Can we gain anything from twitter if we start developing some based on it
@Kolammal Ofcourse as you mentioned making FREE is mantra for popularizing things , But do you think they gained what they expected/invested from twitmdu2010 ?
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