OK, Twit­ter For Dum­mies should be called Twit­ter for Every­one. I may be con­sid­ered a pretty heavy Twit­ter user and was #here­be­fore­o­prah but even I really enjoyed get­ting into the heads of Laura @pistachio Fit­ton, Michael @gruen Gruen, and Leslie @geechee_girl Poston.

If I were to boil Twit­ter for Dum­mies down, I would say that you can’t dumb down Laura, Michael or Leslie — they’re lead­ers in Twit­ter­ville and you really can­not be dis­ap­pointed if you grab the book.

For me, the entire book only took me the length of a Hol­ly­wood movie to read; how­ever, they threw in kitchen sink in this book, extend­ing into rarely used fea­tures such as the Pub­lic Time­line and really geeky command-line access to Twit­ter such as “d chrisabra­ham” or “fol­low chrisabra­ham,” etc.

In fact, there’s a whole chap­ter on rock­ing Twit­ter via SMS text-messaging, some­thing that may be less rel­e­vant to the Twit­terati but is very impor­tant to 75% of all cell phone users who don’t rock smart phones — just be sure to make sure you get the unlim­ited texts plan if you plan to go with SMS or you’ll be screwed.

Of course, every­thing is cov­ered and cov­ered again and you really need to be a moron if you can’t sort your­self out with Twit­ter by the end of Part III — but this is Twit­ter for Dum­mies.

Well, at the start of this review, I said this was all about Laura Fit­ton, Michael Gruen, and Leslie Pos­ton, and it is, but there’s not a whole lot of them in chap­ters I-III. Part IV is when all the good stuff comes a-pouring through. Who else but the best of the best would engage issues like “Find­ing Your Tweet Voice,” “Twit­ter for Busi­ness,” “The Social Side of Twit­ter,” and “Chang­ing the World, One Tweet at a Time.”

This is the kind of stuff that makes me want to rename this book from “Twit­ter for Dum­mies” to “Twit­ter for Every­one: From Total New­bie to Total Rock­star.“Chris Abra­ham is co-founder and prin­ci­pal of Abra­ham Har­ri­son LLC, an inter­na­tional con­sult­ing group with spe­cial­ties in online word-of-mouth/conversation mar­ket­ing and online busi­ness & tech­nol­ogy strat­egy advis­ing. See his pro­file, con­tact Chris via email, Twit­ter, or leave a com­ment below.

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