possible shit-storm for finley...

[denverYooper]

1st follower!

2nd. What's a bappy?

[mission]

Followed.

Patler -- I would just suggest signing up and following all the beat writers and that sort of thing... search for some interests of yours. Don't necessarily worry about posting and see that it's much more about being an instant aggregate news source for you. Pick all the things you like -- whether that's cooking or pro tennis -- and start building a nice follow list. Hopefully you have a smart phone, so your trips to the toilet will be much more informational. Feel free to follow me @tonymission

Nice thing about it is that all the conversation between people never turns up on your timeline. If I make a tweet that is constructed like '@patler wow did you see the game yesterday?' that goes into your mentions. If I tweet 'Wow that game last night @patler'... because it doesnt start with an @ it shows up on all the timelines of your followers. For that reason, when you follow people, you typically are not subscribing to their banter, just what they deem worthy to push to your timeline (in a way). Obviously if you post a lot of trash then you lose followers... this tends to keep the quality up for those that understand the site because they are trying to accumulate followers. If you post something insightful or funny, people will "retweet" you and essentially push your tweet to all their followers .... and then one of those people might decide you're funny/smart and follow you themselves.

That said, people like my wife are on there and don't tweet anything at all... she just reads all sorts of church stuff on there and follows event calenders. Pretty boring.

Facebook is a joke. They're nothing alike. Facebook is for all my relatives to ask if I'm coming home for Christmas or some old classmate from high school that I never talked to then posting a bunch of game requests and pictures of fireworks.

EDIT -- if that didnt make any sense it's because ive been on cough medicine (no not purple) for two days ... it's not really inebriating but my brain is BLAH-er than normal

[Brandon494]

4th follower!

[Patler]

Followed.

Patler -- I would just suggest signing up and following all the beat writers and that sort of thing... search for some interests of yours. Don't necessarily worry about posting and see that it's much more about being an instant aggregate news source for you. Pick all the things you like -- whether that's cooking or pro tennis -- and start building a nice follow list. Hopefully you have a smart phone, so your trips to the toilet will be much more informational. Feel free to follow me @tonymission

Nice thing about it is that all the conversation between people never turns up on your timeline. If I make a tweet that is constructed like '@patler wow did you see the game yesterday?' that goes into your mentions. If I tweet 'Wow that game last night @patler'... because it doesnt start with an @ it shows up on all the timelines of your followers. For that reason, when you follow people, you typically are not subscribing to their banter, just what they deem worthy to push to your timeline (in a way). Obviously if you post a lot of trash then you lose followers... this tends to keep the quality up for those that understand the site because they are trying to accumulate followers. If you post something insightful or funny, people will "retweet" you and essentially push your tweet to all their followers .... and then one of those people might decide you're funny/smart and follow you themselves.

That said, people like my wife are on there and don't tweet anything at all... she just reads all sorts of church stuff on there and follows event calenders. Pretty boring.

Facebook is a joke. They're nothing alike. Facebook is for all my relatives to ask if I'm coming home for Christmas or some old classmate from high school that I never talked to then posting a bunch of game requests and pictures of fireworks.

EDIT -- if that didnt make any sense it's because ive been on cough medicine (no not purple) for two days ... it's not really inebriating but my brain is BLAH-er than normal

Thanks, but how do I "follow" someone, and what is my "timeline" or my "mentions"?
Is "@" what they call "hashtag"?
So, I could send a remark only to you, or to all of your followers just by construction of the message?
Assuming I had some, how would I send something to my follower?

[Kiwon]

Commencing damage control:

Blake Baratz @blakebaratz
(cont) 4) & lastly, I hope u tune into the Blog because 140 characters is just not enough. Life's too short ppl, gotta relax a bit. #FAMILY

3h Blake Baratz @blakebaratz
(cont) 3) I will always own up 2 my own opinions, I have no reason 2 hide from them, but please always understand, they're mine & mine only

3h Blake Baratz @blakebaratz
(cont) 2) I understand the power of social media and how it can be taken in & out of context. Again, I will apologize for that

3h Blake Baratz @blakebaratz
(pt 1) Last comment on Twitter Frenzy: 1) I apologize 2 @jermichaelf88 because he had nothing 2 do w MY comments or opinions.

Ha,ha,ha...

I love it when these guys step in it. The guy's a sports agent and he's ragging like he's John Q. Fan.

Give me a break, it's your livelihood, it's your job. You make your clients look good. You don't bring unwanted attention to them because you want to assert your right to share your "opinion."

Yeah, okay, share your opinion and then lose business for yourself. I wish I could have seen his face when he realized his tweet was going national. You know that his players contacted him and told to quit talking in some very colorful terms.

If you doubt the power of Twitter, think again. Lady Gaga has 29.5 million followers. Yes, some accounts are fakes, but nonetheless, 20+ million people want to read her 140 character messages on their phones or computers. I'm not one of them but that's impressive. It's a very effective and powerful PR tool.

[RashanGary]

5th follower

[Kiwon]

#6 - 나도 따르겠습니다

[mission]

Thanks, but how do I "follow" someone, and what is my "timeline" or my "mentions"?
Is "@" what they call "hashtag"?
So, I could send a remark only to you, or to all of your followers just by construction of the message?
Assuming I had some, how would I send something to my follower?

- Create a twitter account on twitter.com.
- Search for any name in the search box above -- click follow
- Anything they post will show up on your main twitter page (that's your timeline)
- If they reply to someone by "tweeting" '@tonymission you're the man' -- it will not show up on your timeline
- To tweet to your followers you just type something. Cannot start with an @
- A hastag is #Packers a tweet example using one would be: 'Wow, did you see the #Packers game last night?? #unbelievable' ... now you can click on #Packers and see every other tweet with #Packers in it. The second hashtag example is a little less practical and more just to accentuate ?? Not sure how to put it. 'I'm watching #TheVoice with my wife right now and Christina is really hanging out. #boobs #strangeshape ' I'm personally not that big on hash tags but they can be good to see about a particular topic.
- I like to also do things like search a movie name around a premier just to see what real life people going to the movies are saying about something. You can see trends pretty quickly and it helps me get out of shitty movies my wife wants to watch.
- Twitter is very powerful as you learn it!

Putz around for a little bit, you'll get the hang of it. It's the #1 reason my post count is down on all Packer forums, I hate to say it. It's so much easier for me. I'm more of a mobile guy and Twitter really excels on mobile devices. It's so convenient when you're at a red light or waiting at the doctor or, my favorite, the aforementioned morning bathroom time.

[pbmax]

Do we want to do this here or in Romper Room?

[Patler]

RR is fine with me, and if someone wants to delete/move my posts that are off topic, I'm in favor of that, too.

[sharpe1027]

BTW I just deleted my face book account a few days ago, got tired of people posting thousand pictures of their babies clogging up my news feed. That and the fact I spent way too much time on it at work.

Haha, that seems a bit extreme. You could have just hid them from your feed (or unfriended them).

[Lurker64]

If Patler goes on Twitter, he needs to post his username so we can all follow him.

[gbgary]

2nd. What's a bappy?

lol...that's what the grand kids call me (learning to talk version of grampy).