Sams Teach Yourself Twitter in 10 Minutes

by Tee Morris

Provides lessons that cover the fundamentals, along with more advaced topics, of the social networking site Twitter.

Genres: Computers

173 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2009

About the author

Tee Morris began his writing career with his 2002 historical epic fantasy, MOREVI The Chronicles of Rafe & Askana. In 2005 Tee took MOREVI into the then-unknown podosphere, making his novel the first book podcast in its entirety. That experience led to the founding of Podiobooks.com and collaborating with Evo Terra and Chuck Tomasi on Podcasting for Dummies and its follow-up, Expert Podcasting Practices for Dummies. He won acclaim and accolades for his cross-genre fantasy-detective Billibub Baddings Mysteries, the podcast of The Case of the Singing Sword winning him the 2008 Parsec Award for Best Audio Drama. Along with those titles, Tee has written articles and short stories for BenBella Books’s Farscape Forever: Sex, Drugs, and Killer Muppets, the podcast anthology VOICES: New Media Fiction, BenBella Books’ So Say We All: Collected Thoughts and Opinions of Battlestar Galactica, and Dragon Moon Press’ Podthology: The Pod Complex.

In 2011, Tee returned to his first love—fiction—with the steampunk romp Phoenix Rising: A Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences Novel, co-authored with Philippa Ballantine. This debut novel from Harper Voyager won the 2011 Airship Award for Best Steampunk Literature. Now the series includes The Janus Affair (Harper Voyager), Dawn's Early Light (Ace Books), and the Ministry Protocol anthology (Imagine That! Studios). Find out more at ministryofpeculiaroccurrences.com.

When he is not writing, Tee enjoys life in Virginia alongside Philippa Ballantine, his daughter, and three cats.

Reviews

[Trish · Rating 1 out of 5]

That's 10 minutes wasted. Usually I try to figure things out on my own first, so go through much trial and tribulation before I turn to a book to help with the slightly more complex things. This one never really got to complexities that I wanted answered, but focussed instead on adding other media to twitter, i.e., you-tube and twitpics. Eventually I will need to know this, but I am a slow-go socialite.

[Bunny · Rating 1 out of 5]

It takes 170 pages to teach someone Twitter in 10 minutes? Really?

While some of the websites listed are new and interesting, this book is completely pointless. If Twitter isn't self-explanatory enough for you, you shouldn't be on it. Plus, Twitter was updated so many times by the time this book was published, half of the screenshots don't even look right.

Save your time. JFGI.

[Readersaurus · Rating 1 out of 5]

We've been using twitter at the library for a long time now. I still don't see the point. Perhaps this book may shed some light as to why I should continue putting time into it.

Well, this book is probably useful if you are wanting to learn how to use twitter. What I really want is why. I'll keep looking!

[False · Rating 3 out of 5]

Very practical. Of course the minute you write a book like this, it becomes dated as the technology evolves. What amused me was. Learning Twitter in TEN minutes, and the book has TWELVE chapters.

[Meghan · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book was a little to technical for me. Was not a very interesting read.