Recipes Atwitter. Amazing!!!!

I just get all the one sided conversations. If you sign up and "follow" do you

see both sides of the conversations, or do you have to click on the other posters to go to their Twitter page and back and forth etc etc. seems like too much work for a few sentences. Or maybe I just really don't get it.

 
You see both sides

If you follow someone, you'll get to see any updates they make.

If someone makes an update using your twitter name, you'll see it, even if you're not following them.

So you can see ALL the updates from all the people you follow, and your own, on the one page. Other people can only see the updates from all the people *they* follow, and their own.

Does that make more sense?

 
Ok, Traca, please explain Twitter to me.

How is it different from just sending out an IM? Is Twitter an already-established network? So if I signed up for Twitter and sent something out, would it go anywhere? Or do people have to sign up to read your Twitters? Do these Twitters come into my email box?

I hate being left out of things, so I may have to sign up to see what it's all about. But I already waste enough time on Facebook...sigh.

 
As my old pal Sam Clemens used to say: "It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think

you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt."

 
I'm not Traca, but here goes

Twitter is a micro-blogging platform. It is a *very* well established network. Many people use it to just put thoughts that go through their mind. Or point to interesting website they've seen. It can be used in many ways.

One person I know uses it to notify her teenage kids of when dinner will be served!

Tweets don't go to your email. But you can set up Twitter so they come to your cell phone, or so you can send from your cell phone.

People have to "follow" you to receive your tweets in their stream, but anyone can see your tweets if they go to your page (unless you protect it, a simple setting change).

I have found Twitter to be great to expand my network of people I know, finding interesting people, and communicating. It is amazing how much one can tell in 140 characters when one puts their mind to it.

Hope This Helps

 
Yes, very true, and I was amused actually...

...for all those times when people said things to me and then suddenly looked horrified when they realized what they'd said ("Hey, Mimi! Take a seat!" followed immediately by a look on their face that says that they want nothing more than to crawl under the table). I always laugh (more at their expression than at their innocent comment!), which doesn't seem to put them at ease, but this lady didn't laugh!

Next time someone says something to me like that at least I will have this story to tell them to put them at ease. LOL

 
Oh, I just wondered.

On Facebook, some of my friends have pictures of their kids as their profile picture. In fact, I don't think anyone here has a picture of him- or herself in the profile box.

That's a nifty chef's hat you have on.

 
Yes, thank you.

I'm a freelance editor and writer; I know some freelancers have found it useful for business, so that makes me think I should get involved. Plus, as I said, I hate to be left out. Can't let the cool kids have all the fun. smileys/smile.gif

 
Apprentice hat, more like

I like these kind of hats. Cloth, sticks to the head and doesn't get in the way, banging in fans and everywhere else.

Used to be that the higher in the kitchen hierarchy, the taller the hat, hence only apprentices would wear those "skull caps".

 
I don't "get" Twittering (just for twits?). I'm afraid my answer to being twitted

would be "who the H--- cares?". But then I don't even like to answer the phone!!

 
Nic is right, people use Twitter for a number of different reasons. Unlike Facebook,

on Twitter you can choose to follow people you don't know. When I first started with Twitter, for some reason I started following Lance Armstrong. It was fascinating to read his updates about training schedules, multiple drug tests and even random notes about picking the kids up from school. It provided an insight into him that was intriguing to me and while I wasn't a fan before, I am now.

The same thing goes for a number of other people I follow. Heather is on there and she totally makes me laugh. Random thoughts and quick notes have endeared her to me in a way I can't quite explain.

For me, my life rolls at such a rapid pace sometimes, I love the "micro blogging" aspect of Twitter. While I often don't have time to write a full-fledged post of even some of the coolest things I do, Twitter provides a place for me to post those updates. (On an average week, I do about 7 things that would be considered "blog-worthy") Before Twitter, it was sad to see all the cool things that slipped through the cracks. I wanted to talk about them, but just couldn't. So now I finally have a platform for dumping ideas and the randomness of my life.

I also have met several intriguing people through Twitter. I was blown away when one of my favorite writers contacted me via Direct Message (same 140 character limit but you can only Direct Message aka DM someone you mutually follow). We moved the conversation off Twitter into an e-mail but it was great to touch base with someone I've admired for so long. And HE reached out to ME. Blew my mind....

So for me, Twitter has been great. Not only is it a place for short comments about what I'm up to or what I'm reading, but I've also managed to meet new people or strengthen the bond with others.

 
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