Twitter book for beginners

A good friend of mine, @Dirgayuza Setiawan recently launched his Twitter book for beginners. If you know anyone who’s just getting into Twitter, it might be a good idea to get them this book even though most of the information is available from Twitter’s own help pages.

The good thing about printed books is that you can read them when there’s no Internet connection. Mashable has a really good free online guide for Twitter but it’s not that useful offline. The PDF version is only readable on the latest version of Adobe Reader which I’m not a fan of. The book is in Indonesian which helps locals understand Twitter better if they’re not that fluent in English. They also won’t need to dig through the help pages at http://twitter.com/help. I’m sure even many seasoned veterans haven’t bothered to look through that section of the site.

It’s a good guide for beginners without getting into more complicated situations.

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Stupid Twitter Apps

Starting to get annoyed by Twitter applications that don’t respect in-reply-to hooks. This lack of recognition by apps such as Twitterberry, mobile tweete, and slandr, breaks the conversational chains and makes it difficult to follow them.

Twitter implemented reply chains a long time ago. All good Twitter apps have added this support, why not those?

If Twitter was there in 1945..

@sutansjahrir: Just heard the news at BBC. Japan surrenders themselves to Alliances. W00t!
@wikana: @sutansjahrir – SRSLY?
@darwis: @sutansjahrir – Yea. Heard it too @ BBC. Kewl.
@sutansjahrir: @wikana – Yep. Tune your radio to BBC.
@wikana: Just heard the news at BBC. T3H NEWS. W00T!
@darwis: That atomic bomb should be helluva gigantic huge.
@chaerulsaleh: @wikana @sutansjahrir – Yep. Just now.
@chaerulsaleh: @sutansjahrir @wikana @darwis – Check your DM. Got something to tell ya.
@darwis: @chaerulsaleh – Net is suck here. Will check the DM later.
@sutansjahrir: @chaerulsaleh – Have read your DM. Anybody following @soekarno here?
@wikana: @sutansjahrir – Got @hatta at my friends list. Will do?
@darwis: Okay. Back online with much better connection ๐Ÿ˜€
@maeda: Waiting for news from Tokyo
@hatta: Whoa. The news is surprising.
@darwis: @sutansjahrir @chaerulsaleh @wikana – Whoa whoa guys. Should we talk to @maeda first?
@darwis: The Net is pretty suck here. Maybe because of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Meh.
@wikana: Welcoming @soekarno. Hello good sir ๐Ÿ™‚
@maeda: @darwis – I heard my name being mentioned. What happened? *popped in*
@soekarno: “To be or not to be. That is the question.”
@soekarno: @wikana – Hello to you too ๐Ÿ™‚
@wikana: @soekarno – Could you check your DM sir? Some urgent stuffs here.
@soekarno: @wikana – Haz replied your DM. Thanks.
@darwis: @maeda – We might need some of your help.
@maeda: @darwis – Anytime dude.
@wikana: @soekarno – Pray for me, good sir. Was that your final answer?
@wikana: Some stuffs need to be done. Fast.
@soekarno: @wikana – Yes.
@hatta: The press is going crazy.
@maeda: Why I feel such a bad feeling today?
@hatta: @maeda – Hi there. You okay?
@chaerulsaleh: Swift as the wind.
@maeda: @hatta – Yes ๐Ÿ™‚ Thanks for the concern.
@maeda: Offline. Tons of things to do.
@sutansjahrir: @maeda – Bye *waves*
@sutansjahrir: “Do or do not, there is no try.”
@hatta: I think bad feeling is contagious. Somehow I feel uneasy too ๐Ÿ˜
@hatta: Off now. Need to take rest.
@soekarno: Sleepy. Off now.
@sutansjahrir: @chaerulsaleh @wikana @darwis – Check your DM again guys.
@chaerulsaleh: @sutansjahrir – Have read it. OK.
@wikana: Final decision. Tonight.
@darwis: @sutansjahrir – Right-o.
@soekarno: Online. On my way to Rengasdengklok.
@hatta: Going to Rengasdengklok. Good grief, are these guys never sleep? *yawns*
@soekarno: Wee-hours trip with kids. Wow-zie.
@wikana: Rengasdengklok. Hot debate.
@sutansjahrir: Mr. Ahmad Subarjo is here!
@darwis: I think I just saw flying tables…
@wikana: @darwis – Nobody is throwing tables.
@darwis: @wikana – How did you know? ๐Ÿ˜›
@wikana: @darwis – Because I sit right beside you. That’s why. And I see the whole thing.
@chaerulsaleh: @wikana @darwis – Good grief you guys.
@sutansjahrir: @wikana @darwis @chaerulsaleh – We sit in the same table yet WE TWEET WITH EACH OTHER?
@soekarno: @sutansjahrir @wikana @darwis @chaerulsaleh – Hi guys ๐Ÿ˜€
@hatta: Sleepy…
@hatta: The meeting is adjourned. Now we are wondering where we could continue the meeting.
@wikana: Anybody got house that we could go barge in for a meeting? Anybody?
@maeda: Just woke up. The whole gank was in front of me.
@darwis: @maeda – Terribly sorry sir. We need your house for a meeting.
@maeda: Apparently this is the meaning of ‘bad feeling’ that I got this morning ๐Ÿ˜
@sutansjahrir: Apparently @maeda haz nice house.
@hatta: Another person coming in. Mr. Nishimura.
@soekarno: Good grief. Another heated up debate.
@maeda: I hate for being in the middle ๐Ÿ˜
@hatta: … And I thought being independent is a right for humankind…
@maeda: *yawns*
@soekarno: Would somebody please hand me some bricks to throw?
@hatta: Typing the stuffs down. With @soekarno, @sayutimelik and some other guys.
@soekarno: The text is being typed by @sayutimelik and I need some good coffee now. Thanks.
@hatta: I’m signing history right now.
@soekarno: Completely amazed. Wow. Just wow.
@maeda: Oh. it finished already. Goodie. Breakfast, anyone?
@soekarno: @maeda – Hey, thank you very much ๐Ÿ™‚
@hatta: So. Ikada? Naaah, didn’t think so ๐Ÿ˜
@soekarno: … And now my house is going to be a part of history.
@soekarno: Need to ask my wife to find the flag that she made several days ago. @fatmawati, have you woke up yet?
@hatta: OTW to @soekarno’s house.
@soekarno: A little bit lunatic at my house ๐Ÿ˜
@soekarno: Going giddy about reading a thing that would change this nation’s history forever.
@hatta: @soekarno – Hey, you can do it.
@soekarno: Feeling instant pride deep inside. I will never get tired of it. “Proklamasi…”
@hatta: You know that feeling of pride and awesomeness? Yeah, I’m on it now.
@wikana: @soekarno – WHOAH! CONGRATULATIONS!
@darwis: @soekarno @hatta – GOOD WORK! CONGRATS!
@chaerulsaleh: FREEDOM! FREEDOM FOR ALL!
@sutansjahrir: Just screamed out loud “FREEDOM!” outside. As Archimedes said it, “EUREKA!”
@soekarno: Still humming ‘Indonesia Raya’
Thanks to Wikipedia for the information ๐Ÿ™‚