All A-Twitter
Twitter is micro blogging at its finest. I like to think of it as up to the minute live stream feed of chat and links. It is another good way to get into the network of fellow writers, bloggers, and readers.
It is easy to sign up for Twitter. Just follow the link for sign up and create a user name and a password. You can either use your own name like me, @michelezbrouder or a handle like Maureen Wood @BigGirlBlue. All names and handles are preceded by t
he “@” symbol.
Do not panic when you open your account and your page appears blank with no chat on it. This is because you have no followers as of yet. You can go to the search box at the top of the page and type in the person you want to follow and it will re direct you to their page and a box that is marked, “Follow” and you just click onto that box (and there are few in the topic links to get you started).
Once you start following people, other people will follow you as well. In the beginning, when I was a newbie and I was not sure who to follow and had only a handful of friends that I followed, I went to their pages and looked at who they were following and if I was interested, I followed them as well. Initially, I tended to follow writers, bloggers and readers but have since branched out to follow my other interests as well. Also, at the top of the page or along the right hand side are “Who To Follow” suggestions from Twitter — just click on that link and Twitter will make suggestions for you based on your profile.
You can tweet about anything as long as it is no more than 140 characters long. At the bottom right of your tweet, a number will appear to let you know how many characters you have left space wise. And you can tweet about anything: from what you ate for breakfast, the man sleeping next to you on the train (and drooling), to linking an article or posting an excerpt from your blog.
It is part of the social networking phenomenon and once you get the hang of it, it can be a lot of fun.
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Twitter – aiding procrastination since 2005!
If you’re a procrastinator at heart- anything will aid it- you’d even do housework to put off writing what needs to be written:)