If you were planning on printing out a bunch of web pages about Twitter, don't bother. This book has done it for you. It contains a variety of tips and trivia about the Twitter phenomenon and using Twitter for various purposes.

Some of the hints are helpful, most of the trivia is boring. The authors could really benefited from a copy editor, or at least used spell check. Overall, it might do as a reference book if you really need one, but bookmarking a few web pages will probably work just as well. ( )

When I picked up the book I had never used twitter. This book appears to be targeting people who are not only new to twitter but also novices when it comes to working online. As this is not my demographic, I cannot speak to how other people will find the book. It walks you step by step through many basic operations. Much of the book is made up of lists, lists of people, or of terms. I would say about 1/3 of the content is time sensitive (for example, the list of the top 50 most popular twitter users). I was hoping to learn a few things I didn't know and to some degree I succeeded. I would say that as a veteran computer user there was little this book had to offer. I have not read a book of this style before and after this experience I will probably not waste my time. ( )

Fully titled Everything twitter - From Novice To Expert: The Unofficial Guide to Everything Twitter - THE BLUE BOOK. This book by Monica Jones and Steve Soho has a lot of great info for those who want to learn the ins and outs of Twitter. If you are new to Twitter and can't quite figure out how it all works then this is the book for you. If you have a Twitter account but can not figure out how to get people to follow you, then this is the book for you. If you want to read lots of informative and interesting tweets but can not figure out who to follow to find them, then this is the book for you.
I have been on twitter for a few months now and I use it quite often though I would hardly call myself an expert, I think I am securely in the middle which is probably where most people who already have a twitter account are right now. This book starts right at the beginning teaching you how to setup your Twitter account and moves on into how and why to keep your tweets public and the different apps to tweet from. At times it felt a little elementary my dear Watson. That being said I did get a few tips and pointers from Everything Twitter like who is most likely to follow me back and recommendations for cool Twitter tools that might be useful for me.

As I see it there is only one thing wrong with this book and that is the fact that it is a book. What do I mean? Well, those lists of people most likely to follow me back I mentioned earlier are already out of date. There are also lists of accounts with the most followers and other time sensitive lists. A resource like this is very helpful but I can't help wondering if in this age of fast paced micro-blogging especially when the topic of the book is the most used service for just those things that this information would be better served on a website of it's own. Where the information could be updated as it changed or certainly more often than a traditional paper book or even Kindle ebook would allow. ( )

This book is very useful for someone new to the world of Twitter. It gives a lot of useful information to help someone get started on twitter. I esp found 5 step twitter starter program and A River of Uselessfulness very helpful. I also liked the Twictionary. This book is very easy to read and understand. This is a nice resource to someone new to the world of Twitter. I know that I have referred back to it numerous times as I was getting my handle on Twitter. ( )

Read it. Don't buy it.

It's a good resource, but it's got its problems, and frankly you can find all of this information online, since that's where is was compiled. If you see it at your local library, pick it up to thumb through, but skip it at the bookstore.

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