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Twitter

Posted: Sat Feb 25, 2012 10:04 am
by admin
Morning everyone

As part of the start of modernising the site I have started a twitter feed. Although not integrated with the site yet it will be, If you are twitter users and want to start following or twittering please feel free to do so.

You will find it at @notapushymum.

Please keep an eye on the general conversations thread as there will be more infomration about changes to the site over the next few months.

Admin

Re: Twitter

Posted: Sun Feb 26, 2012 6:33 pm
by busybusybusy
Great idea \:D/

Re: Twitter

Posted: Sun Feb 26, 2012 9:33 pm
by wissymo
Good idea
im still trying to get used to twitter,not quite there yet but im following NAPM xx

Re: Twitter

Posted: Sun Feb 26, 2012 11:33 pm
by debmag
Nice one...i'll start following :D

Re: Twitter

Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2012 12:34 am
by obsteve
now following... you can follow us too @ACT2CAM for free casting and training information

\:D/

Re: Twitter

Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2012 12:45 am
by Genevieve
oh ...i'd love to do this ... \:D/ ...
but haven't got my head around twittering yet ](*,) :-$ :-k #-o
this technology is going to combust surely at some point !!!

will have a go, seems to be the way to go now..
avoided it til now, but if this site is going for it... :shock:
guess will have to try and tweet, cos I love this site !
and will sort out how to 'follow' Act2Cam too :idea:

Re: Twitter

Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2012 7:56 am
by sapphire
Following \:D/

Re: Twitter

Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2012 10:56 am
by bruno2
Great to see us moving with the times ! =D> =D>

Re: Twitter

Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2012 6:07 pm
by francescasmum
I'm such a dinosaur, I've just watched two videos explaing tweeting and I still don't understand how to do it! :cry:

Re: Twitter

Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2012 8:24 pm
by In4aPenny
francescasmum wrote:I'm such a dinosaur, I've just watched two videos explaing tweeting and I still don't understand how to do it! :cry:
You and me both! Its probably super simple and we are assuming its over complicated.... :D

Re: Twitter

Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2012 8:32 pm
by Genevieve
:shock: crikey....me too !
I'm sure once we get hang of it.....they''ll be no stopping us :-$ .
til then.....happy puzzling

Re: Twitter

Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2012 8:51 pm
by Lakeviewp
I actually went on a short course to learn twitter! :lol:

I'm still getting to grips with it, but a few pointers I have learnt along the way:

Set up your account (@something) and add a picture (doesn't have to be a picture of you) as no one likes to talk to an egg (the default picture).

You can then 'follow' different people or accounts. My first mistake was to follow the BBC News who post a 'tweet' (a message) every two minutes which meant that I never saw anyone elses' tweets.

I would thoroughly recommed following @westendproducer and @auditionpianist as they are so funny!

You can also follow your favourite pop stars, west end stars and your accountant! ;)

Eventually people will start to 'follow' you and then they will read the messages you post.

If they follow a lot of tweeps (people who tweet!) they may not read all your posts as a timeline (the list of messages like on FB) usually only holds around 100 messages.

If you want to reply to a tweet then you hit the 'reply' button and your reply will be seen by people who follow you and the person you are replying to (but in public).

If you want to send a private message ( a DM) you can only do this if you are both following each other.

The messages themselves can only be 140 characters. There are applications which add a longer message as a file, but I don't know how these work yet (I'm still learning!)

As with most things in life, it's not the quantity (of followers) but the quality which counts. Better to have 50 lovely people following you than 1000 spam type people.

Twitter can be done on a pc, but I personally find it easier to use on my iPhone.

Perhaps another twitter user could explain about the use of hashtags (#) as I'm still getting to grips with this side of it!

It can be quite fun and addictive when you get going (a lot like this forum!).

Let us know how you all get on!

Kind regards

@lakeviewp

Re: Twitter

Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2012 9:06 pm
by Genevieve
Lakeviewp wrote:I actually went on a short course to learn twitter! :lol:
@lakeviewp
:lol: Woah !!! it needs a 'course' :shock:
'hashtag'...OMG !!!

Re: Twitter

Posted: Wed Feb 29, 2012 1:58 am
by In4aPenny
Lakeviewp wrote:I actually went on a short course to learn twitter! :lol:


You can then 'follow' different people or accounts. My first mistake was to follow the BBC News who post a 'tweet' (a message) every two minutes which meant that I never saw anyone elses' tweets.

Thanks for that! Quote from you (above) made me laugh! You might as well have watched News 24 on TV! :lol: :lol:

Re: Twitter

Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2012 8:44 am
by Georgeoliver
I can't even work out how to start following this site on twitter... Can anyone help? Others I am following were easy as I just started following them from someone else's tweets! Confused.com :-k