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  1. Kev b

    Kev b Well-Known Member

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    Re: From my experience

    Ok I kind get it so what's with @ and # ?
     
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    Re: From my experience

    Was motivated this morning. Soon evaporated.
     
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    Re: From my experience

    I used to read Lance Armstrong's tweets but got bored after two days - it didn't really give me the incentive to join.

    I think some people really can't be trusted to engage on a social website that is not exactly anonymous.
     
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    Re: From my experience

    'Just injected'.

    'I don't know how Gerrard and Parker run around for 90 minutes every 4 days #trueathletes #livestrong'
     
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    Re: From my experience

    In old CB parlance everyone's handle starts with @. So you will be @Kev_B or whatever you've called yourself. It's kind of your address. Stephen Fry, the famous Twitter user, is @stephenfry. Gally, who runs this BBS, is @G4lly.

    The # (hashtag) is something you can stick on the end of a Tweet to refer to what subject you're talking about.

    examples

    Paul Merton is so funny #HIGNFY

    Someone who makes the above Tweet is referring to the fact that they are watching Have I Got News For You.

    Xavi is excellent tonight #Euros

    and so on....
     
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    Re: From my experience

    The #NoPantiesDay trending hashtag was quite amusing the other day. :p
     
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    Follow @chelsfergo & @blondieblow and lock thi sen in a room with a hanky for ten mins.
     
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    Easy to switch between accounts on iphone anorl.
     
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    Want to marry Chelsea.
     
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    Can someone start #barnsleyvrotherham tickets, please??
     
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    Re: Exactly

    Think I follow thee, dunt follow mi back though #wounded #teamfollowback
     
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    #allthemorereason

    #somefolkneedtogetoutmore
     
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    'Dear Orange, I need to trade my Balckberry for an i-phone, yours, Morris Day'
     
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    I'm not following Gary Madine in, the scruffy lovely person.
     
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    Personally, like Facebook, I think it's crap. I have cancelled both.
     
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    @BrookeSecrets , never shows her face. Must be shy bless her.
     
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    It appears to me that people did notlisten to the usual advice when leaving school. i.e Now remember, whatever you do, don't be a sheep (another word for follower) Be you own man/woman!!!!
     
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    Face like a bulldog licking piss offa nettle.
     
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    Personally I think it is poo. So is Facebook.
     
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    I think I can match you in the lack of tweets stakes

    In fact I really don't like it when people follow me. It's creepy.

    But in response to this thread, for me, following people on Twitter is a bit of a perversion of what it's really about. What it does give is the ability to selectively listen, via the search function, to millions of people all over the world. If you want to know about an event that's currently happening, Twitter will give you info at a speed that journalists and reporters cannot hope to match. Whether that info is accurate is another matter but at least there's an indication of credibility if enough people are writing the same thing. Wondering whether to make a trip to some event? Twitter might tell you whether it's been cancelled, how busy it is, what the traffic's like and what people think of it in general.
     

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