First tweet:
Problem is, I'm pretty clueless with this Twitter thing - somebody help me! What's all this # business? How do I respond to someone? Retweet? HUH? Is there a handbook somewhere to help an old lady out?
Also, I just did a search for some of my favorite bloggers and followed them. Is that cool...or stalkerish? How does that all work? I followed @BryanVoltaggio and @RichardBlais, too. That might be stalkerish. I don't know the etiquette for this thing. Who else should I be following?
Still trying to figure out what the fascination is with Twitter, but I'll give it a whirl. How is it different than a Facebook status update? If it ends up being a huge time suck and I'm just tweeting into space (how do people get 10,000 followers anyway?), I'm out. But for now...@FunnelcloudRach
6 comments:
I thought the same thing as you - I don't need another distraction! But I treat Twitter as a place for one-liners/rants I can't put on Facebook (because certain people might see it) or can't turn into a regular blog post.
Using the hashtag (#) is basically like tagging a post, which means if you tweet about your dogs and put the hashtag #dogswanttoeatus after it, then anyone searching on that hashtag will see your tweet in their search results.
If you want to respond to someone, use the @ (followed by their username) and your response will show up on your page, their page, and I think the page of anyone who follows that person.
If you want a private, one-on-one conversation with someone, use the DM feature. Only you and they will see your message.
Any other questions, let me know! I'm not on Twitter as much as I used to be and I know there are others out there who know everything about it!
BTW, I'm @picklesdimes. Feel free to stalk me!
Ahh, thank you, Shauna! I will definitely Twitter-stalk you! ;)
I do social networking as part of my job, and I always point people to Mashable's Twitter Guidebook: http://mashable.com/guidebook/twitter/ It explains a lot of the Twitter terminology and how to use it. Hope it helps!
Thanks, Marie - this is great!
Yay! Welcome to Twitter! I absolutely love Twitter. Just play around with it, you'll get the hang of it. Good luck :)
i've had a twitter account for a couple years (i think) and i still don't know how to use it.
how people keep up with all these social media sites is beyond me.
until i figure out how to stop time or add more hours to my day, i just post something ever now and again to keep it current.
sorry i'm not more help. haha.
good luck! if you master the art of twitter, please let us know!
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