Monday 25 October 2010

How You Can Use And Abuse Twitter

Last week we looked at various aspects of social media. One of the “cons” was the need for CONversation. This is none more true than on Twitter, where you can tweet to the whole world, or send a tweet to one individual person.

It was @davegorman the comedian, if I remember rightly, who retweeted a few weeks ago that you should only ever [...read more...]

Friday 15 October 2010

Twitter Tips for Newbies, Noobs and the More Experienced

I’m often asked how to use Twitter. Carol Vorderman recently tweeted a question about who can see the messages ("tweets") she sends to specific people. So here are a few tips on this and other subjects.

These tips apply whether you are tweeting in a business or personal capacity, and are for the more experienced as well as for newbies: [...read more...]

Wednesday 13 October 2010

Tweet Location Issues

Twitter lets you publish the location from which you are sending your tweets with each tweet. However the system is unreliable, for both Old Twitter and New Twitter. The automatic system making mistakes, and then over-rides what is set manually.

Tweets that are being sent from "Windsor and Maidenhead" are sometimes coming out there, and sometimes (and repeatedly) in Wiltshire!

Anyone know how the system works, and what's going wrong?

Tuesday 5 October 2010

New Twitter - How to "Find People"

If you want to find people, and wondering where the OldTwitter "Find People" function is in NewTwitter:
  • Use the main search box at the top of the screen and
  • Then click the "People" tab
Alternatively, if the username is similar to the real name, then you can probably spot the relevant username in the initial search.

A standard search on tweets is the only way of finding a new user (in OldTwitter or NewTwitter), provided they've made at least one tweet. This is because it can take some considerable time for a new account  to appear in the tweep database behind the "Find People" search.

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