If the combination of charity and Twitter post enticed you to explore Twitter more, then here is a free ebook that contains screenshots of a step-by-step guide to setting up an account on Twitter.  

Twitter is really self explanatory and need not provide a guide and the videos in the previous post provides the basics to setting up, nevertheless this is a good resource to get grips with the basic and covers one or two pointers that you may miss out on.  

You can download the ebook at this link.

Also here is a link to a Twitter tool that auto folllows users on a keyword match basis. 

You will need to use the unlock code:

This tool will follow only people who twit about specific topics! there is a  likehood that people you are following will also most likely follow you. 
So you want to build highly targeted list of followers,  this tool will do assist in this automatically.  

So if you use a keyword match for ‘third sector’ or ‘child safety policy’ it will do a search and start following users who include those terms.  This tool is at its early stages and I am in discussion with the developer with suggestions i.e. not to auto-follow but provide the link to that users account to do  more thorough research to find out more about that person.  

The results will not be immediate. It analyses the twitter posts around every 30 seconds. If it finds your keyword(s), you automatically follow that user.  Most of the time when you follow the user, he/she follows you back.  Check your twitter account periodically, and you’ll see the changes.

UPDATE:  The feedback for this tool is mixed.  Some are concerned that this tool is Twitter meets Spam.  I suggest that this tool is used carefully and possible with a disposable twitter account.  Find as many users as you can, analyse what is their interest and then select which people you genuinely want to follow.  Go to your main account and start following them.  

Be sure to visit the FAQ on this site.

There is a craze at the moment about sending automated messages when someone follows you.  however this should be avoided since this is being used as a spam tool and users are un-following those who send automated messages.  I would suggest a personal touch to messages were possible.

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