No, we aren't calling you a twit. It's a little play on one of the biggest buzz words right now:
Twitter.
Everyone's doing it.
They are.
He is.
She is.
Of course they are.
And they are too.
Don't forget these folks.
A favorite of ours.
A lovely one.
Another goodie.
The funniest tweets ever.
This idea was sparked at Rotary as, in my role as GIT (greeter in training) I got the whispered aside: When they begin the pledge of allegiance you can stop, otherwise you'll be here forever. And honestly, I would have.
We thought, in the interest of practicing what we preach, we'd offer up the odd post (they're all a bit odd aren't they?) that gives a tip. So special thanks to Susan for today's tip, and now for a couple for you.
When "tweeting" — publishing 140 character or less posts on your Twitter account, put the @ symbol before a person's account name to alert them that you are referring to or directly addressing them.
People can then click a pre-set search from the right hand side of their Twitter homepage to call up all Tweets with @myname in them.
If you want to get on a current event band wagon, place a "hashtag" or "pound sign" ----> # in front of the word without spaces, e.g. #IranElection or #GoodGriefBillyJoelIsDivorcingAgain
This way people can search on http://hashtags.org to see all tweets about the particular term or can also search in the Twitter search, again on the right hand side of their Twitter homepage.
Tips are free. Twitter is free. And now you are free to dip your toe in the twater.
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I admit, I don't know how to Twitter at all, don't know anything about De.l.i.ci.ou.s (wtf?), Digg,... but my question is this: do people who use Twitter, when they Twit, after they've Twitted, does that mean, technically, that they've Twatted? I'd like to see THAT word in the dictionary.
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