Today we have a special guest post from Brandon Twyford. In this blog post Brandon shares his personal experience with us about learning and “jumping in” and how he relates it to social media. Enjoy this great post!

I took three years of Spanish in high school and one year of Spanish in college. I had to start at Intro to Spanish in college because I had forgotten everything I learned in high school over the summer, just as I had to struggle to remember what I had learned the previous year each time I started a new Spanish course in high school. Spending one hour two or three days a week on a subject just doesn’t make it sink in very well. Most of the knowledge you gain each day slips away as soon as you leave the classroom. Homework helps a little, but unless you have real-world opportunities to apply what you’ve learned, you’re swimming against the stream — gaining a little every day, but not as much as you could be.
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This is a guest post by Dino Dogan, Founder of Dogan Dogs and 2WheelTips . Dino posted a guest post on this blog before on How Do I Start Blogging in 10 Steps or Less? In this guest post, Dino is going to teach us how to automate people using Twitterfeed. You can follow Dino on twitter: @dino_dogan

Manually tweeting new posts by my favorite bloggers has seriously started cutting into my “me” time.

For the last few months I’ve been trying to figure out a way to auto-tweet newest blog posts published by my friends and favorite bloggers. As a rule, these are people who constantly and consistently produce good content sans sales pitch.
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This is a guest post from Standford Smith (@pushingsocial) from Pushing Social. In this post, Standford explain how we can use twitter to get our blog notice most of them even if your blog is new.

There’s a myth that says that you have to slog it out in the blogging trenches for at least a year before you see significant traffic to your blog. To be fair, that may have been the case a few years ago.  But now, with Twitter, it’s very possible to launch your blog and attract some crazy traffic within months rather than years.

Now you can jump in the middle of highly targeted conversations, rub elbows with mega-influencers, and watch your posts go viral with a single tweet.  You don’t need PPC or a giant email list.  All you need is persistence, good manners, and some clever tactics.
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This is a guest post from from Henry aka @thephattay. He’s fairly new to twitter and he is here today to share the things he notice about twitter and why he find it interesting.. ohh by the way, he’s also my room mate.

A Review about Twitter from the eyes of a beginner

1 – Twitter is not Facebook

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This is a guest post by Dino Dogan, Founder of Dogan Dogs and 2WheelTips . In this guest post, Dino is going to teach us how to start blogging in 10 steps or less. Dino also prepared us an audio version for us to take it on the go. You can follow Dino on twitter: @dino_dogan

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1. Discover Your Passion

Starting a blog means you are about to give-up a significant portion of your free time to this endeavour. Also, it means that you will be doing it for nothing.
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Today we have a new guest post written by Antonia Harler aka @antwizzel from SocialGlitz. In this post Antonia explains why some people manage to become successful while others fail miserably.

You are what you TWEET! You read correctly. It’s not a typo. Let me explain why. I get asked a lot about how Twitter works, why some people have thousands of followers and others have none, how some people manage to become successful through the platform or even why some companies’ Twitter strategies work extremely well and others fail miserably (more…)

Finding for a job on twitter? Today we have a special guest post by @AutumnStJohn a freelance writer and editor in sunny London gives us 10 superb twitter tips of using twitter for job search

Since becoming involved with the careers guidance market, I’ve become increasingly fascinated by the relationship between job search/career change and social media. Probably because I’m someone who a) has had a lot of jobs and career changes and b) loves social media and regularly struggles to remember what she did before it was invented. Having written a blog post on using LinkedIn in a job search I started thinking about my chief social media love, Twitter. Although Twitter is less targeted towards professional networking than LinkedIn, it is still a hugely valuable tool to businesses and professionals-and to job seekers. Here are 10 tips for using Twitter to get a job.
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Today we have a special guest post by Marian Schembari  (@MarianSchembari) from marianlibrarian.com telling us why we need a kick ass twitter background.

Last week I ran a massive sale on my latest service, Personalized Twitter Strategy. Phew! I am officially done with the mass of Twitter critiques, and it’s been an interesting couple of days, let me tell you.

Doing two or three critiques per day is exhausting in and of itself, but doing so showed me that many people are making the same mistakes over and over. I want to share with you the most common:
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