Sooo much pooping

[jellykelly]

I'm so behind with these trends but I've just joined up. Now I have no idea how to work it - but I know that I need to follow people that interest me and vice versa - so..... there's not much on there at the moment but if anyone wants to a, explain to me in lay mans terms how to get the best from twitter - or b, follow me..... my name is Tweetandcluck.

[gonetoearth]

I'm on twitter and along the way I meet lots of folk who are interested in the same kind of things as I am. I twitter with quite a few chicken people which is often useful, often amusing and sometimes sad. Just like the threads here really.

 

At it's simplest it's a bit like chatting to friends over coffee and cake and sometimes it's about sharing good tutorials or sources of information.

 

I suppose I've found/gained fellow 'twitterers' via some of the craft forums I visit, from having a link from my blog, from following designers I like. As you see parts of others peoples chats and running conversations you can follow the people they're talking to and they decide whether or not to follow you back.

 

A down side to tweeting are the spammers but you can just block those same as you would with email spammers or any other type of spammers.

 

There are quite a few good 'Help' documents on twitter itself to get you started and countless blogs suggesting how to get the best out of twitter but you need to know why you're tweeting... is it for fun... for work... for hobbies all all of those?

 

There's a thing which goes around the twittersphere called a 'follow friday' , which surprisingly happens on Fridays. You will see it as a #ff plus a load of user names.... that's always a good way of finding people you might be interested in. You can click on the user names and see a few more details about the person and judge whether you want to follow them.

 

I'm going off to follow you

 

I really get a lot out of twitter. It's gives me company through my working day.. it gives me a way of finding information I want ... and sharing information.

 

There's a thing called 'Direct messaging' which means you can message people without sharing it with the rest of the world... so I often speak to DH that way..

 

I'll go now....

[migsy]

I'm on Twitter but I don't use it much. I'm under Siobhan Watson so I'll add you.

[foreveryoung]

Im on there (not often mind you ) but im edines33 if you want to add me

[njoy]

I'm on twitter, as jamjarart

[Lewis]

Following you

 

Have been on there for ages.

I'm Lwescott ... surprisingly

 

You're meant to treat it like a mini blog - just a sentence of what you are up to etc.

Hash tags are just things people have in common or an event, eg "is putting away the chickens in the #eglu" or "is watching the last episode of #TheBill"

 

You can find any celebs and people you are interested in, and follow them to see what they're up to

[Egluntyne]

A polite reminder about internet safety and the advertising rules. It might be best if you ask people to pm you for your twitter name rather than posting it here. You never know who is reading!

 

Re the advertising rules, all references in posts to businesses have been removed, in line with the policy.

[Leicester_H]

You can also set

 

Protect my tweets

 

Your tweets are currently protected; only those you approve will receive your tweets. Your future tweets will not be available publicly. Tweets posted previously may still be publicly visible in some places.

 

So you have to approve people to follow your messages - like approving friends in Facebook.

 

H

[PurpleTree]

The only trouble with protecting your tweets is that people can't see what your tweeting about, so can't decide whether you're worth following or not. Personally I wouldn't bother to protect them, I wouldn't tweet anything that I wouldn't want anyone to see.

 

I use it like Lewis for mini blogging and just putting what's on my mind at that moment, a bit like a status on Facebook. I do also chat with other people hubby and I managed to wangle freebies from a company the other week as we chatted with someone and mentioned the company in every tweet.

 

I'm welshpurpletree on there if you want to follow.

[Leicester_H]

The only trouble with protecting your tweets is that people can't see what your tweeting about, so can't decide whether you're worth following or not.

 

I guess it depend how you want to use it - I only want people I know to follow me / see my messages.

We use it at work to ask questions - eg. how in Word do I .... ? Anyone know where to buy a xyz....

 

I'm afraid I don't go in for all this following 'famous' peoples blogs!!

And generally I don't care what people had for breakfast (a common tweet apparently!)

 

H

[PapaJuliet]

I do use it to chat with various groups of friends, although less so now I have a twitter app on my phone and I don't get them by text any more.

 

I mainly tweet at (ice) hockey matches or use it to keep up to date with play.

 

I will tweet maybe a couple of tweets a month, particularly during the summer, then in the season, I may send 40-50 tweets in a couple of hours... mainly time updates or wry random comments. (Other people do goals or penalties.)

 

And recently I've been retweeting motor sport related tweets.

 

But I feel no need to tell people what I've had for breakfast (usually porridge, BTW)

 

PJ

[karlotta]

I've been on twitter a little while... I tend to be quite random, but there is some chook stuff in there too!

 

I've followed everyone who's left their name here, but I'd rather not post my name on her as it's my real name (starts with a K if you look at your recent new followers!) - pm me if you'd like to follow me and I'm not already following you!

[Ness3103]

i'm following you x

[goodinparts]

I'm there - same user name as here...I mostly seem to have clergy types following me, but a few chicken people too Will go & see who I can find now ...