tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-62607874624251264522024-03-12T19:51:14.862-07:00The Twitter Gazette"Twiddles, Tweets and Droppings from Blogs and the Twittering-Verse."Tnavreshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12271629503751861507noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6260787462425126452.post-46755929153704406742010-04-18T11:51:00.000-07:002010-04-23T23:19:39.370-07:00Twitter Suspends Account for Tnavres64<div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Today I learned Twitter is serious about using aggressive following methods, even if they are done manually. Though they will not give you exact numbers or boundaries to stay within (understandable - as then software could automate it all), the flip side of the coin, is you have no way of knowing when you cross the demarcation line that will get your account suspended. </span></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">What is the cutoff number? 50? 200? 1000? I read a post where the person claimed, <i>"I use this software to follow a 1,000 limit a day and to unfollow anyone who doesn't follow me."</i> I proved today that you cannot follow 1,000 people in a single day.. My follow amounts were split over two days and may have been 700+ new follows at best. Attempting to maintain a tight ratio by unfollowing those who didn't return the favor, also hurt.</span></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">I was anxious to break the 1,000 follow mark apparently, as I was sitting at 979. I'll chalk it up to a lesson learned. My fingers are crossed to get the account reactivated.</span></div>Tnavreshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12271629503751861507noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6260787462425126452.post-22415258108341764852010-04-17T10:15:00.000-07:002010-04-25T11:07:51.154-07:00How I Caught Twitter-Mania<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><div style="color: black; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">I knew about Twitter of course. Everyone and anyone who spends even wee bits of time on the internet cannot help being deluged with all the social media. My family pestered me for two to three years, <i>"Get on FaceBook."</i> And up until April 3rd, 2010 I was able to tune out the constant pressure of joining: MySpace, FaceBook, and even Twitter. After all, that is what email is for, right? </span></div><div style="color: black; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="color: black; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">This all changed when lightning struck me. Not physically; just inside my pea-size noggin. This seemingly random encounter with Michael Dunlop, a young-gun entrepreneur, who posted an article about Twitter on his website, got me to change my outdated thinking. Which at the time was, <i>"I don't want my cell phone being spammed with crap text."</i> It was what I didn't know about what I didn't know...Then white-lightning struck.</span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=6260787462425126452&postID=2241525810834176485" name="more"></a></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">What Michael wrote about made sense to me. I understood enough to create my account and tinker with it. And like you, figured I'd learn the ropes of basic twittering 101 by:</span></div><ul style="color: black; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><li><span style="font-size: large;">Following a bunch of people</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">See what all the hoopla was about</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">Delete twitter or continue</span></li>
</ul><div style="color: black; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">After two weeks of twitter tinkering, I learned:</span></div><ul style="color: black; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><li><span style="font-size: large;">A small minority use Twitter to make a fast buck. Need I say, <i>"Junk Ad Spam?" </i>Most of it is a twitter-white-noise. Harmless. Kind of like karaoke without the beer.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">A good majority tweet for fun, with no thought of fame, fortune or gaining a mass audience. You get some great musings at times from: youtube, poetry, clippings...The list is endless.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">Another group uses Twitter as a form of mini-blogging. It is noticeable right off, as their tweets are well constructed and concise. <i>"Boy, oh boy. Nothing gets the creative juices flowing, than following those kind of tweet-masters."</i> Give me more please...</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">And then there is my reason for becoming a tweetster (perhaps one day a tweetstar). No really, the actual truth is, I just want to connect with like-minded people who share similar interests. When I take off my conical shaped dunce cap, like I did as I read the Twitter article, even a mental midget like me can learn something new.</span></li>
</ul><div style="color: black; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Now two weeks later, while there are still aspects of Twitter, I am discovering, I did manage to latch onto using the "search tool feature." I can find out in seconds what the Twitter-Verse is thinking on any person, place, thing, or idea. As an avid reader, I can find out what people think about <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Elantris-Brandon-Sanderson/dp/0765350378?ie=UTF8&tag=scrpapmon-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" target="_blank">Brandon Sanderson</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=scrpapmon-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=0765350378" style="border: medium none ! important; margin: 0px ! important; padding: 0px ! important;" width="1" /> in general or his latest paperback release, <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Warbreaker-Brandon-Sanderson/dp/0765360039?ie=UTF8&tag=scrpapmon-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" target="_blank">"Warbreaker."</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=scrpapmon-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=0765360039" style="border: medium none ! important; margin: 0px ! important; padding: 0px ! important;" width="1" /></i> Which I read online as Brandon wrote it. Of course I bought the book!</span></div><div style="color: black; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="color: black; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">They say tweeting can be habit forming? I admit, I had my first dream about Twitter last night. What a restful night of tweep...err sleep I had.</span></div><br />
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