Wednesday 6 April 2011

Twitter

I’ve joined the Twitter community! God help me! Considering I can just about update my status on Face Book and write entries on here, I’m guessing the most i’m going to manage on Twitter is to write a basic tweet! I felt it was time I tried to get with it and find out what all of the fuss is about. Tell a lie, I clearly tried two years ago and failed, as my account was originally set up in April 2009! Like Face Book, the mobile site seems to be the most accessible for the visually impaired, but the main site doesn’t seem to be too complex. I’m completely baffled by all of these hash tags, at tags, mentions, replies, favourites and retweets, so when I get time I plan to read the help section! I wonder how many people admit to reading those pages!

If you have the urge to follow me, my user name is selinalitt, genius or what! For some reason I already have five followers from 2009, but I didn’t even post a tweet! Oh well!

7 comments:

Jen said...

yay! Love to see new people joining twitter. There's much learning, and its probably easier to navigate than facebook. I would say that though because I hate facebook!
Can't wait to see you getting adicted, like me :)

And just to warn you if you follow me, I talk a lot of crap!

Roshni said...

Hey Selina; I’m gonna go follow you right now! My user name for you or any one else who wants to follow me is Roshni_h
BTW, can I recommend; www.accessibletwitter.com you might not want to use it forever, but it’s a very simple, jaws friendly HTML site to get you started!
Oh and some quick tips: mentions are replies people send to messages you post.
DMs are direct messages people post to you and only you.
ReTweets are a bit like forwarded Emails, some one re-posts what you have posted because they love it!
HashTags are essentially user names, the Ids you need to message or follow some one else; so, your HashTag would be Selinalitt for now, though, you could change that and make it something short to give your respondents more space to reply! Hope this helps; can’t wait to see you get addicted either (and I talk crap too! Loads of crap in fact!)

Selina Litt said...

Ooooh there is an accessible site, good good, non techy people like me need that! So DMs doesn't stand for doc martins who'd have thought!

Selina Litt said...

Jen you've made following you far too complicated, I have no idea how to request to follow you, so bear with me lol.

Roshni I didn't know you had a blog! Doh!

Roshni said...

Yay; thanks for following my blog! I’m a bit anal about how many followers I have; you brought it up to 20; what could be better!
Thank you thank you thank you!! Much appreciation!

Jen said...

There's a link to send a request so it automatically emails me and then I accept you.
Have to make my page private so I can use it in work and not get caught haha.

qwitter is the best way of using twitter. Its so quick and easy when you learn the key strokes. Don't have it at the moment though and its a pain.

www.qwitter-client.net

Selina Litt said...

Lol Roshni, I have 7 followers on this blog, you're well ahead of me!

Thanks for the link Jen, someone mentioned qwitter to me today, but didn't tell me where to access it!