Are you using a social media assistant?

Should you?

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I’m watching the stream on the celebrity battles to get millions of followers. That’s all good and fun for all of us.

But let’s keep it real and not get taken in on rumors like

Oprah is announcing today that she is buying Twitter

Twitter will have a fail whale for 3 days when Oprah starts Tweeting

Oprah’s show today is timed to disrupt #FollowFriday

Twitter has bots that will set realistic looking Tweets from Oprah to anyone that follows her

These rumors are not true. I hope you will join me in denying these rumors as often as possible on Twitter today.

Your blog trackbacks and comments here will help us spread the news that Oprah is not bad news for Twitter

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If you have been worried about the time you spend on Twitter, you’ll love Flutter

For a bit more serious ideas on one to be more productive on Twitter, join us for Friday night Fun on the Twitter Radio Show

Friday Night, 10 PM Eastern, 7 PM Pacific and 4PM Hawaii

Be sure you have a BlogTalkRadio account so you can connect with us in the chat room. Then log in a few minutes before the show and meet people who are building a network on Twitter just like you.

The TwitCast is also available on iTunes here

Do you have a question about Twitter. Send a Tweet to @WarrenWhitlock or add a comment here.

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It’s Monday at Affiliate Summit West here in Las Vegas. You can follow what we are doing on TweetChat using #ASW09 hash tag.

Started the day with breakfast where we saw that Germans like Frosted Flakes

Then there was an amazing session with @GaryVee who took a question from the audience about balancing social media use with “real work”

What you have to realize is that social media IS real business

Twitter is everywhere at this conference. I took this shot while sitting next to @MariSmith during the Facebook session

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Tonight’s http://TwitCastRadio.com was my Twinterview with @MattBacak, who was recently subjected to a Twitter Storm of negative tweets over a press release he issued about his social media activities.

Matt has been promoting online, teaching others how to marketing their books and businesses on the Internet and building several multi-million dollar businesses.

While the press release statements were true, they gave the impression that Matt was in Stage 2.. looking for a way to profit or use technologies like Twitter.

I knew this wasn’t like Matt. So I invited him to tell us what happened.

Listen to the interview now. I think you’ll agree that it’s a story of a sincere guy, who learns from his mistake. (no wonder he’s been so successful).

Do you think Matt was genuine on the call? I admit to not being totally objective, but I think you’ll hear that he is the man of integrety I know and love

Post your comments below.

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In the top 10 words on Twitter, I noticed “TwitterRank“

Yes, once again, an site looks at your profile and give you a grade. Fun to play, not really much information to help you use Twitter better. Quoting @ryochiji, who wrote this toy, the Mashable story:

As for Twitterank’s future, it’s self-deprecating developer probably describes it best: “by tomorrow, most of Twitterdom will have forgotten about Twitterank. Thank goodness for short attention spans.”

What really matters is how you grade the time you devout to Twitter and social media. Great tools to help you connect and build meaningful connections. Use them as you wish, not for some rank.

@GaryVee could be the poster child for the revolution we talk about here at Twitter Handbook.

After his awesome keynote at New Media Expo, I jumped on stage and grabbed this Twinterview:

Twitter influencing the world stories are becoming more common.

I foresee the day soon where stories like this will be about as boring as a story of a reporter using a car or telephone, but right now.. HOW COOL!

Twitter in Congress

A tweet from @CoachDeb caught my attention:

@johnculberson u just became my FAVORITE Tweeter! TX 4 keeping America informed while the lights went out on Congress by #Pelosi

I hadn’t seen the event live, but following Congressman Culberson told me more

I will let you click through to see how Twitter is a tool for democracy. My objective is show how easy it was for me to get news.. even when I wasn’t paying much attention.

Should you trust Twitter.. The Exxon Mess

As soon as I finished catching up on Congress through Twitter, I noticed a message from @BenMack to read this post from @jowyang

How “Janet” Fooled the Twittersphere She’s the Voice of Exxon Mobil

The lessons learned section at the bottom of the story are a must read

Twitter is not just for telling your tweeps about your cat, hat and TV watching plans (I’m watching The Cat in the Hat.. how did you know?). All these tweets are bits and pieces of what is really going on in our lives and some of it is very important.

But remember, Twitter is much like hanging out in a downtown shopping district of a large city. You’ll find some bargains, can meet up with friends, and meet new ones (even better on Twitter). But watch out for the guy that is selling watches and handbags. They may not be the real.

Share your Twitter Makes the the News story below.. not just a story about Twitter.. but Twitter helping the news spread faster, or best of all getting the story out that we might not have heard otherwise.

What’s your favortie story of how Twitter changed the world?

I doesn’t have to be about you. You don’t need to be the person in the story, or breaking the news. We are all reporters now!

Just scroll down and post your comment so we can include you in the our book. We know that the tweets of all of us will give us a better book. We are writing Twitter style.

Be sure to include your @ name so we can follow you.

It’s @Simonleung day for our tweeps.

As we’ve done before.. we’ve chosen to honor Simon on his birthday, but asking all our followers to follow Simon and tweet about it.

But today.. I’m adding a little bit of a twist…

I’ll be choosing one commenter from this blog post to get a day later this week.. some followers and perhaps some other gifts.

Here’s how to play:

1. Follow @Simonleung - He’s an ex Google employee, helped create Adwords, and super guy you’ll want to follow
2. Tweet to about Simon, and his blog posts or activities.. tell your follower to follow Simon
3. Send a “Happy Birthday” tweet to @Simonleung
4. Post a comment here. Share your best idea about what we should do for @Simonleung day and future promtoions like.

The best idea of the day, or comment here will win the prizes.

 Twitter Handbook is going LIVE

 Join us offline in Vegas. 

We’ve been writing the book on Twitter, with this blog, and through out Twitcasts.

Now @CoashDeb (the one with the new profile pic) is coming to Vegas to speak this weekend. So we’re taking the project offline.

All Twitter users, Twitter Handbook contributors, and the general public are invited to join us (this means you)

If you are anywhere near Las Vegas on Thursday, please drop by and Meet up with us at the Vegas Tweetup