Twitter Party Tutorial

 See & Hear About Twitter Parties, But Not Sure How?

Twitter parties can be really crazy and fast.  I think mine will be a good one to start with.  It won’t be as big as some of the others.  But I did want to give a little help for those of you who are new.  I have my tutorial and there are a couple links for other tutorials that might be of great help too.

There are many different avenues you can use to follow a twitter party. I am going to show you my favorite.  I use Tweetgrid.com

The reason being is that I can see several screens going on at once.

Step 1:  Go to Tweetgrid.com and look at your options.

The 1×1 and 1×2 are the number of columns across and down.  I like the 1×4.  Single columns – 4 across.. It is lower on the page and I have it highlighted.  But see what you are comfortable with.

There are helpful links at the top of the Tweetgrid page that can help you too.  Here is the 1×4 tweetgrid set up.  See… just 1 column down and 4 across.

You can delete the info in the “tweet” area at the top.  Then fill in #MonopolyStreet (or what ever your hashtag for your twitter party is – if you are looking at this for another twitter party) This way you don’t have to keep adding the hashtag for every tweet and that saves a lot of time.

Filling out the column headers

Column #1 – Delete the current info in that header (I think it is like @twitter) Put in your hashtag #MonopolyStreets   and hit “Search”   This will now show you every tweet that is being tweeted that has the #MonopolyStreet hashtag in it…so you can follow our party.

2nd column - You can add @OrganizerSandy in there.  You will be able to follow my tweets and it will also show you ppl who are tweeting me.

3rd column – Add @EAPlay there.  That is the Brand following for EA Games/Hasbro who will be joining us tonight.

4th column – This is where you will put your own twitter name @(and your name).  This way you can see if someone is talking directly to you.

After you have this filled out you have to log in (or you can log in before filling this out too) Look right above the columns and underneath where you tweet your message from.  You will see user … look over to “log in”.  Click that.

Hit “allow” and it will take you back to your tweetgrid page. You name will then be in the “user” space. You are ready to go.

I will be tweeting out several questions.  They will be labeled Q1, Q2 etc…  This is discussion.  This is not going to be a race to answer the question type of twitter party.  So relax….

I’d love it if you would RT the questions too.

I will be picking winners 2 at a time.  I will use Random.org to pick the winners.  It will be off the rsvp list.  I will check to make sure that person is actually attending the party. So even if you are overwhelmed…be sure to do some tweeting so that I know you are here.

You won’t be able to read every tweet – things move fast.  Just do your best, follow what you can and look for the questions to answer.

Pouchee Review

Go check out the review that Angela from Mom’s Fortress of Solitude
She did the review as part of Global Influence Holiday Gift Guide.
She just learned what I learned a couple of years ago…the pouchee is a great product!

There will be a giveaway this Saturday Dec. 11th for a sitewarming twitter party. So watch for it!

Twitter

Dyson Twitter Party!

Jyl from Mom it Forward is hosting the #GNO (girls night out) twitter party tonight. Dyson is the sponsor and the talk will be on cleaning and organizing. Guess who she asked to be one of the panelist. Me! Yeah!  Along with these other wonderful people.    You will need to  RSVP  first. (otherwise you won’t be eligible for any of the party favors which are also hosted by Dyson.  Come join us tonight from 9pm-11pm est.

She is also having a giveaway on her site to win one of Three Dyson Vacuum Cleaners  So along with RSVPing on her site to come to the #GNO party tonight, be sure to sign up to win a Dyson Vacuum.

This was easy for me because I bought a Dyson last year and love it.  So being able to point out any benefits from having one to you is just a no brainer for me.

Come by and say Hi to me!!