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Christy’s Twitter Crash Course
Autumn
Monday
10:32 pm
Since our darling friend and GeekSix co-blogger has decided to join the ranks of twitter (maybe I dis-invited her from future birthday parties, the details were fuzzy), I wanted to give her a few pointers that I’ve learned in my tenure there.
hashtags or # are used when you want to say more, but are trying to conserve space, so #mashallthewordsuptogether
if @thinkgeek, @wilw or @feliciaday RT (which means retweet, yeah, it’s a word now) something you say, or reply with witty banter, you may brag to all your friends for the next 2 years.
#FB means you’re post will also go to your facebook page. It does not mean something else that I totally thought it meant but totally doesn’t.
When the fail whale happens (twitter gets bogged down with too many posts, because apparently it is powered with guinea pigs in wheels) it is important to hit reload constantly until it comes back.
The one thing more annoying than the fail whale, Justin Bieber and sparkly vampires is twittering about how much you hate the fail whale, Justin Bieber and sparkly vampires.
No one twitters about the lunch they had.
Twitter is better than facebook because you’re constantly entertained by people you probably don’t know in real life, instead of learning awkward things about your coworkers last vacation.
High Five Friday is much cooler than Follow Friday, as you get to figure out a fun high five picture to send to friends but not have to figure out a concise reason why people should follow them. Sadly this occurs on a Friday, after I’ve been working all week, and so it’s best to make inanimate objects around me high five then take a picture of myself after two hours of traffic.
Oh, and Drew says follow @geekinsight for all your board game needs.
Ok kids, what’d I miss?
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Reader Comments
Please, for the sanity of us all, do not link your twitter account to other applications. The twitterverse need not know every youtube video you like, or every foursquare update.
Agreed, Geekinsight. If you like a video, have the decency to tell us in “person” with a manual tweet.
Also, rule No. 1: Tweet! You’ve been on for 24 hours now, Christy — say something!
*sigh*
Christy….
I have to disagree about no one tweeting about the lunch they had–unless Josh was discussing his breakfast when he mentioned his yogurt exploding upon his opening it….
And Jason tweets about the dinners he makes now and then. >;)
Oh, and I think Josh also mentioned once that he was pining for a cheeseburger while eating carrots because his wife had the family on a diet. The details are sketchy, but I recall something along these lines….
Popped the twitter cherry….ewww…did I just type that?
What about some practical advice like, use of punctuation is optional? Terseness is key? Don’t get too obsessed with people unfollowing you? ^_^
Amber, those don’t sound like tweeting about lunch, they sound like tweeting about a yogurt explosion, cooking food and pining. Then I remembered the time last week where I said I was happy about my stew lunch because I was watching some high fantasy, which always gets me in the mood.
Raciel, I think it’s important to not only get upset about someone unfollowing you, but to voice your displeasure via passive agressive tweets about that person to the people who still DO follow you! ;D