The power of remaining positive, whatever the situation, can never be underestimated. We are all here for a limited period of time, is it worth it to spend any of that time in a dismal mood? Being negative?

Here is a list of things that you might want to tweet about. My advice - find a more useful way to use your 140 characters or less.

1. Bad Weather
2. Bad Traffic
3. Bad Customer Service
4. Bad Food
5. Bad Politics
6. Bad Economy
7. Your ex-boss
8. Your ex-company
9. Your ex-favorite store
10. Your ex

Whether you are positive or negative, the situation does not change. So, we mind as well be positive.

1. Tweet about this list constantly, and listen to the sound of numbers of people clicking the "unfollow" button in unison.
2. Tweet about them often, and people will respond with negative tweets about you. Negativity is contagious; not only does it affect the individual, but it spreads to anyone they interact with.
3. Tweet about these things occasionally, and people will laugh it off. As with any habit, the habit of remaining positive in all situations takes practice and a commitment to yourself to take control. People can understand your humanity.
4. Tweet about positive things, Keep going at it, and you will gradually become a positive energy source for the others around you! Wouldn’t that be empowering?

 Phil 4:8Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable--if anything is excellent or praiseworthy--think about, [Tweet about] such things.

Do you ever wonder how people link their blog posts to twitter? Yes, I suppose it is as simple as copying and pasting, but the link always comes out really long, and it is tough to fit it all into 140 characters. Here is what I use: a powerful little site called twitterfeed.com

Here are the directions on how to run twitter from your texting plan, if you don't have the ability or the desire to use a twitter app on your smartphone.

1. Send a text to your Twitter code with the word START
2. We'll reply and ask you to sign up if you're new or reply with your username if you already have an account.
3. Send your username (do not send any additional characters in the message, or we won't be able to read it correctly)
4. When Twitter asks for your password, carefully send your password to us (remember: passwords are case sensitive!
5. Twitter will ask you to say OK if you want to use Twitter on your phone. Send OK, and you're all set! Now you can send messages to your Twitter code, and they will post as Tweets on your Twitter profile for all your friends to read.
6. To get others' updates delivered to your phone now, you'll need to turn on mobile updates for those whose Tweets you wish to see on your phone. Until you do this, you will not receive any Tweets to your mobile phone. Check out these other phone commands for more tips and tricks!

I personally use both the twitter app for the iPhone as well as the SMS messaging.

Why? Because part of the beauty of twitter community is the community. Finding followers and becoming a following others, is half of the fun of twitter. However, I don't want to sift through hundreds of tweets from people I only know at a distant level. I want to focus in on a much smaller group of tweeters. So, the people that I really want to keep up with I have notifications sent to me via SMS. The others I just glance at briefly when I open the twitter app once or twice a week. This keeps me from wasting a bunch of time sifting through tweets I don't care about.

Great pictures are an awesome part of every great story. Also, they are an easy way to tell an entire story in the 140 characters or less that twitter keep us all to. The newest iPhone iOS 5 tweets pictures with the twitter app, but otherwise, you may need to use one of the following 3rd party apps.


Twitpic: Twitpic is the largest and most popular image sharing service on Twitter, in part due to all the attention it got in January when the first pictures of the Hudson River plane crash were shared on the site. It also has some popular celebrity users, like Grant Imahara from Mythbusters.
TweetPhoto: Competing with Twitpic will definitely be a steep, uphill battle for any other Twitter photo sharing service, but TweetPhoto offers a numbers of compelling features, such as stats, geo-tagging, favoriting, and Facebook integration, that make it a worthy competitor.
Pikchur: A multi-platform app, Pikchur lets users share images automatically in multiple places, including Twitter, Facebook, Friendfeed, Tumblr, and Flickr. Sign up is optional, meaning you can get started very quickly.
Twitgoo: Borrowing the look and feel of Twitter, Twitgoo asks its users, “What are you lookin’ at?” It is integrated into a number of third party apps, including favorites like Tweetie for Mac and TwitterBerry.
yfrog: Since yfrog comes from the guys behind ImageShack, you can bet it is going to be extremely simple, with a singular purpose in mind. Upload, log in, share — that’s it, but that’s all you need, right?