Do you tweet?
May 27th 2015, 12:55 am
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May 27th 2015, 2:54 am
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May 27th 2015, 5:53 am
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Re: Do you tweet?
May 27th 2015, 11:35 am
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Re: Do you tweet?
May 28th 2015, 1:48 pm
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Re: Do you tweet?
I'm a big twitter user. It's one of the first apps I fire up on my phone or tablet of a morning. I find it useful to follow news organisation, individual journo's, commentators & the odd celeb to keep abreast of breaking news and popular culture.
Yes, There is a limit to how much info can be conveyed in 140 characters but it's useful to click through to a news story. It's also very interesting how quickly a breaking news story can be covered through tweets compared with an update on a news organisations website. Of course like all things on the 'net it's a case of filtering out the good content from the bad but that's the same everywhere these days.
For me the uniqueness of twitter is how you shape your information flow through those you follow. So my feed of a morning gives me local news, traffic and weather, international news, comment from people I'm interested in and the occasional piece of humour. Yes, your tailoring the information to your own biases but you can select information feed more widely if you choose. So follow Al Jazeera news as well as Fox.
OK, I don't follow Fox, but you get the point.
The other increasingly useful thing with twitter is engaging with corporations customer service departments. Getting a response from Air Canada for example, can be quicker via twitter than on the phone.
I use twitter more for receiving than sending as I don't tweet that much. Content over quantity!
AX
Yes, There is a limit to how much info can be conveyed in 140 characters but it's useful to click through to a news story. It's also very interesting how quickly a breaking news story can be covered through tweets compared with an update on a news organisations website. Of course like all things on the 'net it's a case of filtering out the good content from the bad but that's the same everywhere these days.
For me the uniqueness of twitter is how you shape your information flow through those you follow. So my feed of a morning gives me local news, traffic and weather, international news, comment from people I'm interested in and the occasional piece of humour. Yes, your tailoring the information to your own biases but you can select information feed more widely if you choose. So follow Al Jazeera news as well as Fox.
OK, I don't follow Fox, but you get the point.The other increasingly useful thing with twitter is engaging with corporations customer service departments. Getting a response from Air Canada for example, can be quicker via twitter than on the phone.
I use twitter more for receiving than sending as I don't tweet that much. Content over quantity!
AX
May 28th 2015, 2:34 pm
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Jun 2nd 2015, 11:25 am
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