Tweetdeck Basic Tutorial for #Charice Twitter Trending Mission Please Download and Install Tweetdeck if you haven’t already: www.tweetdeck.com I recommend configuring Tweetdeck with bit.ly, so that all links are automatically shortened via this URL-shortening service. To do this, you must first register for a bit.ly account here: bit.ly Then do the following: [1] Obtain your bit.ly API Key here: bit.ly [2] Read this tutorial on how to configure tweetdeck with bit.ly: bit.ly In this Tutorial, I demonstrated how you can control two twitter accounts via Tweetdeck. By designating one account doing the tweeting, and the other account for re-tweeting, avoids violating Twitter’s Spam policy as stated in their Terms of Service. Each tweets must be unique. Re-tweets are considered “unique”. Tweeting identical tweets with multiple accounts, however, is Spam. In order to maximize this strategy, I recommend each of us to create at least two or more Twitter accounts (note: one account per email allowed), configure and “synchronise” them via Tweetdeck, create pre-made tweets via any text editor (ie Notepad), designate one account to do the tweeting and “synced” accounts for re-tweeting. Pre-made tweets and copy and pasting them onto Tweetdeck will save you time drastically. RULE OF THUMB: wait at least 15 seconds in between tweets and re-tweets, to allow twitter to reflect and properly index the hashtags. In addition, frequent tweets and re-tweets will annoy your followers. Keep in …