Twitip

By Neal Wiser. Follow him @nealwiser

NASA gets “Twitter Fever” and invites the public to a TweetUp at NASA Headquarters to honor the crew of STS-127.

I want to be an astronaut. Not “wanted,” as in it was my childhood dream. I want to be one. Ever since I was a kid I knew the difference between “LOX” and “lox” (LOX is liquid oxygen, a key ingredient of space shuttle fuel and is carried in the orange external fuel tank during a shuttle launch. Lox is smoked salmon and tastes great on a bagel with cream cheese).

I was not a normal kid.

But as badly as I want to be an astronaut, as much as I studied science and technical manuals of the shuttle’s flight controls, I chose another path, one that would ultimately bring me full circle to NASA Headquarters in Washington DC on September 24, 2009. On that date, NASA held a TweetUp. (more…)

By Jade Craven – Follow her @jadecraven.

2 days ago, I met my friend Sam Mutimer (@sammutimer) for lunch. We talked about blogging, conferences and social media over lunch. I left with the opportunity to work with her team at Thinktank Media (@thinktankmedia) when they roll out strategies for new clients.

I was quite surprised – especially as I use twitter to hang out and connecting with awesome people when I have the time.

How I Got The Job

I don’t remember how I met Sam, but she soon encouraged me to go the the tweetup she founded called Tweetupmellers(@tweetupmellers) . She was great at getting me to talk to new people and was really encouraging.

I kept in touch with Sam, helping her out and just talking about her projects. I also focused on connecting with more people from the tweetupmellers community. (more…)

Today I’d like to start a new type of post here at TwiTip – Interviews of Effective users of Twitter. I’m going to kick it off with an interview with Steve Rubel (@steverubel) a great Twitter user, PR expert and blogger at Micro Persuasion.

In this interview I ask Steve about his journey with Twitter, how he uses it, about growing follower numbers, for his suggestions on monetizing Twitter and for his views on the future of Twitter (and more).

Note: I asked my followers on Twitter to submit their questions for Steve and have acknowledged those followers to inspired some of the questions below. To be included in this type of thing in future follow @problogger and keep your eyes open for future calls for questions.

Steve thanks for joining us on TwiTip – Can you tell us your Twitter story. When did you start? Why? What attracted you to it?

In December 2006 I was invited to meet Bill Gates as part of a special blogger meeting on the Microsoft campus (Microsoft is a client of my employer but I was invited as a blogger). Evan Williams was at the meeting and we shared a cab to Sea-Tac Airport where he told me about Twitter. I was truly skeptical at first but I signed up when I got back to NY. I wasn’t convinced the site was going places. It wasn’t until about February or March of 2007 that I began to use Twitter in earnest and began to really enjoy it.

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