Now that we’ve established why you want to Tweet and how to get started, let’s talk about how to actually use the service. As with my first Twitter How and Why post, I’m using examples and explanations that came up while explaining to a non-Twitter friend how to start tweeting.
There are four main ways of communicating with people and sharing information:
Tweets
Replies
Direct Messages (DMs)
Re-Tweets
Tweets
These are your messages to the world. In 140 characters or less, use this feature to share links to interesting information you’ve found …
Chatting has been around for what seems like forever. I remember chat rooms being the biggest thrill, even at 13 when I first got my first AOL screen name – Angel3297. Where else could you go and be amongst 30 strangers and strike up a random conversation from the privacy of your home? The ultimate goal was to use your charming wit and presence to sway someone to “private message” you. People as a species crave that one-on-one personal interaction with someone. Time passed, and AOL Instant Messenger wasn’t the …
A few months ago I watched “The Science of Sex Appeal” on the Discovery Channel. The entire program was great, but what I found most interesting was the portion on how we choose the people we date.
It has to do with the rating system – certain people are higher integers based on admirable characteristics. The experiment was fairly straightforward: everyone was randomly assigned an number and told to “mate” (hold hands, in this case) with the person who had the highest number. The catch was the participants had no idea …
If you’re new to RSS, this post will be life-changing for you.
Do you have a long list of sites you check every day? News sites, weather sites, blogs, sports, etc.? Man, wouldn’t it be nice if you could just go to one place and see the latest updates on all of them?
RSS feeds do just that. Anytime you see that lovely orange box on your favorite site you want to keep tabs on, just click it and go through the subscription process. RSS feeds update with every site update, so …
“But why should I tweet? What do I have to say?”
A friend of mine asked this question of a group of us late last week. That “group of us” included myself, my roommate, two friend’s and my friend’s mother. We’re all bloggers. We all met on Twitter before we met in person (my friend and her mother being the exception, obviously), and we have our hands in various social media tools, of which Twitter is one of the most often-used.
Those of us “power users” were faced …
