[access-uk] Re: Twitter

  • From: "Damon Rose" <damon.rose@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2010 17:24:54 -0000

Twitter is quite geeky really. It's amazing that it's getting so much
press and that so many mainstream celebs are tweeting at the level they
are. 

You need to put an @ sign in front of a username to respond to them.

Also, if you see something with a hash in front of it, that's a tag. So
at the moment #uksnow is appearing near the top of the 'Top Trending
topics' list on the Twitter homepage because lots of peple have tagged
their tweets with #uksnow to make them appear under that topic heading.
No tag, no topic sorting. 

But even geekier than all these @ signs and hash tags, you'll find that
some geeks like to push twitter further. One guy called Ben is inviting
everyone who tags their tweets with #uksnow to put their postcode in the
tweet if they've got snow. Why? Because he has setup a website with an
interactive map on it that takes the #uksnow feed and translates all the
postcodes into colour coding so people can tell where the snow is at a
glance. It's flexible and adaptable. 

Along with the @ signs, the hash tags, postcodes and all that, you'll
also find lots of mentions of RT. This is a retweet, a bit like
forwarding an email in Outlook it's people giving a wider audience to
tweets. In this way, tweets can be broadcast and rebroadcast in
different friend networks all over the planet extremely quickly and
spread like wildfire. So if you see RT, think FW. 

So think of it as a totally different beast to Facebook. Facebook is
where you talk to your pals and keep them all in one place, Twitter is
where you broadcast your ideas and favourite URLs widely. And where you
get to mingle with like minded people easily and see what they're
interested in and what website they're looking at.

I'm only just getting into Twitter, mostly via my mobile, so perhaps
other people can explain it a bit better. It's not the most pleasing of
experiences as a blind user I have to say, far less straightforward and
more bitty and cluttered than Facebook. But it's there for a different
purpose and it works extremely well in it's geeky simplicity. I'm loving
the info I'm finding out and the websites I'm hearing about daily. It
serves a purpose and works better for me as a work tool also. 

...Damon 

















 

-----Original Message-----
From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: 06 January 2010 07:33
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Twitter

Hi. Thanks for that tip. Not something i knew before.


-original message-
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Twitter
From: "Vanja Sudar" <vanja@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 06/01/2010 02:50

Hi, to reply to someone you put an @ sign in front of their username. So
for example if you'd reply to myself you'd put: @internetking followed
by your message. If you're following someone they don't see your
messages on their timeline 'till they follow you. Also if you choose to
protect your updates, only those who follow you can see your updates and
they are not shown on public timeline. HTH and if you have any other
questions do not hesitate to ask.
Vanja
http://www.sudar.co.uk
http://twitter.com/internetking
MSN/windows live messenger: sudar23@xxxxxxxxxxx
AIM: vanja121
  ----- Original Message -----
  From: Saqib
  To: Access-uk
  Sent: Sunday, January 03, 2010 6:38 PM
  Subject: [access-uk] Twitter


  Hi. How do I reply to a twitter status on the web? If I am following
someone, can they see my tweets on their home page? I have just setup an
account and wanted to see how twitter works and wanted to compare it to
Facebook. 
  Follow me on twitter at www.twitter.com/saqib1975

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