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Two weeks ago, we talked about Pizza Hut's Twitter strategies.  Four days ago, a report highlighted how lots of companies have used the site to succeed.  Now, the most definitive "how to Twitter" manual yet's available, as Twitter's introduced something called Twitter 101.

There is a definite focus on business (and usually small business) here, so don't worry that it's all written for grandmas and/or tweens.  Otherwise, the walkthrough is pretty much what you'd imagine and perhaps hope for.

Divided into six sections, it covers topics including "What is Twitter," "Getting started," "Learn the lingo," "Best practices," "Case studies," and "Other resources."  Common-sense questions like "So how do businesses use Twitter?" are answered, and there's advice to keep you from sounding like a spammer, too.

Fair warning: this might be part of a lead-up to get businesses to in some way pay for using Twitter.  But since Twitter will only be able to get money from companies if the companies decide they need it, Twitter's probably giving the best possible advice in the meantime.

So if you're interested in Twitter and have time to do a little reading (the sections tend towards the comprehensive side of things), check out Twitter 101.