Comments on: Do you Tweet Under your own Name?

By: disgruntled

disgruntled — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 20:48:16 +0000

couldn’t possibly comment

By: Sarah

Sarah — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 17:18:06 +0000

Why has it made me anonymous? Is your comment box a Yorkist?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 17:17:11 +0000

Nothing’s wrong with Lancashire. We won.

By: disgruntled

disgruntled — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 10:10:10 +0000

Thanks everyone. I’m going to have to think of something to say now…

By: justwilliams

justwilliams — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 09:43:33 +0000

So what’s wrong with Lancashire?

By: Nick

Nick — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 07:22:55 +0000

What’s Twitter?

By: Flighty

Flighty — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 07:12:38 +0000

I know, I use my real name on Facebook, where I get confused when people write Mike not Flighty!

By: cha0tic

cha0tic — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 05:54:59 +0000

It’s not for everyone, but hey it’s not compulsory. I know Football exists and wish it would “just go away”. to quote David Mitchell. So I just tend to ignore football unless it gets in the way. As it will, because of the morons at work who will be obsessing about the bloody game as it’s a world cup year. *sigh*

You might like it on #LeadersDebate* night. Pop the radio/TV on, listen to/watch the debate and fire up Twitter. I suggest you get a Twitter ‘client’. There are plenty out there, Tweetdeck is popular. I prefer Hootsuite myself as it’s web based so I just have it open in a separate tab.

The advantage of a Twitter client is that you can have various columns available to view. The general one of all the people you follow, the ones you’ve sent, the ones @**, direct messages and custom ones. Say you want to fish for tweets containing the hash tag #Cycling or what ever you set it up for.

As I say it’s out there, but not compulsory.

*That’s what’s known as a hash tag. It’s a way of attracting attention to you’re tweet, or aligning with something going on, or something you’re interested in. It’s also a way to search for other tweets on the same subject. #TheArchers & #Radio4 are I couple I use regularly.

**@ is another concept to get your head round. It’s a way of replying or commenting to another person’s tweets.

By: Dom

Dom — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 05:53:34 +0000

Ah, I jumped on the twitter bandwagon back in the days when it was hip and cool. Then there was the inevitable confusion of do I post like Facebook updates where one assumes there is a “Dom is” prepending the statement or do I do it as a micro blog. After a few months I realised the only people following me were a few friends who could see my Facebook status anyway and a few hundred people trying to use Twitter to advertise and/or scam. In the end I got bored of it, although recently I’ve been considering rejoining and consuming rather than producing. Perhaps I could add you as my first followee

By: John_in_NH

John_in_NH — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 02:08:59 +0000

as part of the “youngin” generation I have to say I will continue to resist the twitter bit. In fact I really don’t like it at all, and despite some small use sometimes, find no use for it in my life. I also do not have a cell phone as well, making me an unofficial outcast in 21st century America (part of 3% of Americans that do not own one, I think it is now)

I am usually late to things, but thats ok If I see a use for it in my life and where I am heading then great! I will use it.

Otherwise I shun it

good luck with the twitterness
and giving updates on which field the cows are in now could be important to that farmer down the road following your feed from his tractor!!