You gotta you love TED.

TED: Technology, Entertainment, Design is an annual conference showcasing presentations from some very innovative, imaginative, interesting, and pioneering folks. They truly do present Ideas worth spreading.

So if you can’t get enough of the videos, maybe this will quench your thirst. @TEDNews (on Twitter) has a great Twitter list with 41 (and counting) speakers from the 2010 conference. Not a bad bunch of folks to tune into if you ask me.

90% of Twitter users probably don’t know this…but should…

Twitter uses a certain structure that disables “conversational tweets” to go out to your followers (unless they follow both you and the person you’re conversing with). A conversational tweet is when you put the twitter handle first in your post.

The above example is something that I tweeted in reply to @patrickdixon. It will be found in @patrickdixon’s mentions (inbox) and is available on the public timeline, but it will NOT go to my followers unless they follow me and @patrickdixon.

The reason for this is to cut out the “noise” in everyone’s inbox. Otherwise you’d have a bunch of tweets in your inbox that would have very little- to no-context.

So the BIG takeaway here, if you’re trying to promote something don’t put the person/brand first in the tweet!