So how does one benefit from Joomla and Twitter together? There are many ways and it is important to get on the bus, soon. There is a robust Joomla community on Twitter from core developers, template and addon developers, and website developers. There are multiple hashtags (see below), which allow your Joomla related tweet to be retweeted to a large network of followers. Or searched. There are Twitter plugins for Joomla, which allow you to show your latest tweets and followers. So you can learn, share, educate, network and promote. After all, Tweetvolume says that there are over 48,000 tweets about Joomla on in the Twitter database.
Joomla Community on Twitter
 Want to have direct conversations with core Joomla developers? Get busy with your Twitter account. If you would like inside knowledge on the future of Joomla in real time, or announcements of new extensions, templates or promotions, make sure you follow as many Joomla people as possible. If you would like to discuss development issues with other Joomla development services providers, or even get advice or support of questions, you can do this on Twitter. Plus, you can promote your own Joomla heroics. There are also many tweeters of Joomla project job boards.
- Communicate with Joomla Core Developers
- Learn About the Future of Joomla in Real Time
- Hear About New Extensions, Templates and Promotions in Real Time
- Get Support and Share Ideas With Joomla Website Developers
- Read About Joomla Project Opportunities
Hashtags : #joomla
If you do not know yet, Twitter provides a feature called hashtags for major topics where a keyword uses the pound sign (#) prefix such as #joomla or #wordpress. When a person tweets about a topic and includes the hashtag (or #joomla for instance), that tweet will retweeted by a number of Twitter users who just scour Twitter looking for #joomla tweets. These hash retweeters may have hundreds or thousands of followers that you do not have, so your tweets will be seen by many other people that you can not reach. It is also a powerful way to search for other Joomla people to follow (and in turn follow you!). If you use http://search.twitter.com and click on advanced search, you can really fine-tune your Joomla related searches. To read a great blog post on Twitter advanced search, click here.
Another great built in tool in Twitter is find people. Type Joomla in thesearch field. Also, the website CMSTweetr will show you a stream of all #joomla, #drupal, #wordpress and #expressionengine tweets in one window!
There are other websites that will help you search for Twitter users that list Joomla in their profiles. You can even list them by number of followers.
Twubble
Twubble will look at your current Twitter followers and analyze their profiles. It will then suggest other people you may want to follow with similar interests. I use this often.
Mrtweet
Similar to Twubble, Mrtweet also looks at the people you follow and makes recommendations. It also allows you to give recommendations for awesome people you follow. Like a thumbs up vote.
Topsy
Topsy is an interesting Twitter search site that allows you to search for #joomla or joomla tweets but displays results in a nice layout with day, week, month and year totals, as well as listing the top tweeters of Joomla related info.
Wefollow
A search directory that allows you to enter up to three hashtags and search for people around those topics.
Joomla Twitter Addons and Plugins
There are a growing number of Joomla plugins to interface with the Twitter API.
Content to Twitter Plugins
Send new Joomla content tweets of directly to your Twitter account automatically. Also, the popular TweetMe (TweetMeme) plugin which allows readers of your Joomla content or blogs to retweet the articles easily. We use this here. Click here for list of plugins.
Twitter in Joomla Plugins
There is a growing list of plugins that allow you to show your latest tweets in a module position in your Joomla website. Click here for list of plugins. We use mod_tweets from Gnome On The Run on this website.
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