Today, I’ve found potential job opportunities through Twitter and made important networking connections through Facebook. Don’t neglect the social web in your job hunt. Networking has stronger roots when the connection begins in person, but the internet can be a great asset in expanding your reach.
Having four-hundred friends or followers on your social network of choice won’t help you. Knowing the friends you have, who they know, and what they can provide will help you.
For all of you wondering, “What (the heck) is Twitter?” or who’ve noticed my recent massive usage of it, please watch the following video.
What is Twitter?
(via nPost Startup Blog)
Woohoo!
Going to the post office, getting my stitches out today, 26, work, dinner (Italian) in Bellevue, and maybe sleeping sometime.
I’m learning to type abbreviated messages due to insane amounts of Twitter usage. You can see by this graph my usage has exploded this month.
Gotta go get ready for the day now.
I’ve moved MyTwitter for WordPress to a new project page.
MyTwitter is a WordPress plugin I created that allows users to display their Twitter status updates (tweets) on their WordPress blog and update their status through the Options page. It includes customization options including number of tweets to display and formatting options. It can be called as a function or used as a widget.
You can see MyTwitter in action at the main page of my site.
At the time of writing this post, MyTwitter has been downloaded 1,150 times via WordPress Plugins (download current version now).
It’s also interesting to note the number of different languages I’ve seen for pages referring to or using my plugin. To date, among sites linking to mine talking about the plugin, I’ve seen English, Spanish, Portuguese (Brazilian), Chinese, German, Japanese, and Russian. It’s a global community!
MyTwitter @ Twitter: twitter.com/Elitwee
Current MyTwitter Version: 2.02 (December 13, 2008) — WordPress 2.7 Compatible!
Download (Zip) (hosted at official WordPress Plugins site)
About: MyTwitter allows users to display their Twitter status updates (tweets) on their WordPress site and update their status through the Settings page for MyTwitter. Includes customization options including avatar display, number of tweets to display, formatting options, and stylesheets. It can be called as a widget or a function.
Donate: If you appreciate the MyTwitter for WordPress plugin, please consider leaving a donation for the author.
Compatibility: MyTwitter 2.01 has been tested to work with WordPress 2.7. It should work w/ versions 2.3 and higher.
Requirements: The current version of MyTwitter requires PHP 5.2 or higher to be installed on your web server as it uses the json_decode function and Twitter’s JSON API.
Installation: Extract the contents of the archive. Upload the mytwitter folder to your WordPress plugins folder (e.g. http://example.com/wp-content/plugins/). Set your preferences in the WordPress Settings panel for “MyTwitter” (including username, password, and formatting options). Set the Cache Life to the length of time for the Twitter feed to be cached before checking for updates.
Be sure to set the cache location to the appropriate location on your server. It defaults to the “cache” folder located in the MyTwitter plugin directory.
Stylesheets: Example CSS code is included in example.css. To incorporate on your site, copy/edit the code to the stylesheet for your current wordpress theme. For most themes, this can be done by going to Presentation -> Theme Editor and then select “Stylesheet” from the theme files list. The following is the CSS classes/IDs you can use to style your tweet output (additional notes available in the example.css file).
CSS Classes: mytwitter, mytwitter_tweet, mytwitter_tweet_time, mytwitter_separator
CSS IDs: mytwitter_tweet-1, mytwitter_tweet_time-1, mytwitter_separator-1 — the number increases sequentially for each tweet displayed. If you are displaying 5 tweets, they will be numbered from 1 to 5, (mytwitter_tweet-1, mytwitter_tweet-2, etc.)
To Display Your Tweets:
If you have a widget-enabled theme, you can add it to your sidebar by going to the WordPress Widgets administration screen, selecting “Widgets” from the menu, and then drag “MyTwitter” to the location you want it displayed on your sidebar. If you’d rather add it into your theme manually, use the code below.
<?php if (function_exists(‘mytwitter’)) { ?>
<li><? mytwitter();?></li>
<?php } ?>
Comments/Questions/Errors: Please leave a comment if you have errors or suggestions. If commenting about an error, include your versions of MyTwitter, WordPress, and PHP. (Note: First-time comments are moderated.)
Warranty: This program is distributed WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
Newest Version: Download Newest Version
Old Versions: Download MyTwitter 1.6 or view other old versions.