Twitter C/D

having so few followers is quite unpleasant

Welcome to this universe and how it works. In the universe two streets over from this one several hundred thousand people breathlessly await my every next word on the subject of floor wax and how to optimize your relationship to it.

Here, though, no such luck. Here I'm just lucky that my mother loves me. Have you called yours lately?

Here I'm just lucky that my mother loves me. Have you called yours lately?

Alas, both of my parents are deceased. This prevents me from calling my mother. (Not kidding, and not lying in order to garner sympathy.)

Welcome to this universe and how it works.

Yeah, I know that's how things usually are in life. But that doesn't mean I have to like it.

And I do hope that you, Aimless, were on to something about Twitter becoming socially irrelevant not too long from now. I can't help but wonder how future generations will look back on this thing called Twitter. If you really think about Twitter, it really seems stupid, like a really stupid invention. At least, it does to me. But this is where people are at these days. If you wish to try communicate with people today, Twitter is becoming more and more of a necessity to do so. Many people don't even bother with email anymore. If you wish to contact them, they usually say: Contact me on Twitter.

i never ever get that, seriously

what ARE you saying about the animals?

give us sample tweets

do u hashtag

I do sort of wish Twitter would die sometimes. If I didn't have to use it for work I'd possibly delete my account. I'd miss using it to find new bars/restaurants - I think that's about it.

I use it for purely social reasons. Met a lot of new IRL friends.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/29/fashion/technology-and-the-college-generation.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

^^ story about college kids today finding email a hassle, preferring to communicate with their professors Twitter, FB, and texts.

http://i.imgur.com/JCRE6LR.png

uh

“E-mail has never really been a fun thing to use,” said Ms. Judge, 19. “It’s always like, ‘This is something you have to do.’ School is a boring thing. E-mail is a boring thing. It goes together.”

Sorry to be a dick about this but I'm not going to feel bad when this particular student doesn't manage to find out I'm giving a quiz.

@filmclubbristol is an ilxor

I just tried to find @amcuriosnj and I got nuffin. I am now following jody_beth and filmclub, however, just for... no good reason.

I just tried to find @amcuriosnj and I got nuffin

This should take you there: https://twitter.com/AmCuriousNJ
(No offense, but, you left out the 'u' in 'curious'. That might be why you didn't get any search results.)

i never ever get that, seriously

If you're referring to my statement

If you wish to try communicate with people today, Twitter is becoming more and more of a necessity to do so. Many people don't even bother with email anymore. If you wish to contact them, they usually say: Contact me on Twitter.

I say you're fortunate if you never get that response. And

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/29/fashion/technology-and-the-college-generation.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

^^ story about college kids today finding email a hassle, preferring to communicate with their professors Twitter, FB, and texts.

― disgruntled punter (Je55e), Tuesday, October 1, 2013 1:50 PM

Yeah, this is what I'm talking about. Though, it's not only today's college kids that I've heard this from.

@filmclubbristol is an ilxor

what ARE you saying about the animals?

give us sample tweets

do u hashtag

Yes, I do hashtag.

Here are some sample tweets RE animal welfare that I have posted:

am.curious.sometimes ‏@AmCuriousNJ 28 Sep
#AnimalWelfare For FREE: You Can Help Animals- and -Pet Shelters- with a free click! http://theanimalrescuesite.greatergood.com/clickToGive/ars/home …

am.curious.sometimes ‏@AmCuriousNJ 29 Sep
Modern chickens grow so big, so fast, they can barely stand! Chickens deserve better. Join the fight: http://bit.ly/1e4CF8P #CluckNo

The first sample tweet is one I post almost every day because it is referring to an on-going charity program where, each day, you can help animals for free worldwide.

The second sample tweet is how the ASPCA suggested members should word the tweet. (Personally, I probably wouldn't have use a hashtag like #CluckNo because it sounds too odd to me.)

Also, I have several semi-technical questions RE Twitter. If anyone provides some answers, thanks in advance.

1.(Brief Re-cap: I've had my Twitter account since Thurs., Sept. 19, 2013. I tweet about animal welfare primarily, but sometimes also tweet about music, arts/culture (vague, I know), and investigative journalism news stories that I think are interesting/important.) Earlier today, someone that I followed decided to block me. My question is: Is this unusual? I thought blocking was done to spam accounts and/or accounts with offensive material, neither of which I engage in with Twitter or otherwise.

2.If I wish to use a #hashtag that doesn't already exist, how do I create it? Is it just a matter of keying it in on my notebook computer? I know that there's a #hashtag for almost everything but, just in case.

3.When using the DM (Direct Message) feature, is the character limit also 140? Obviously, I haven't used DM yet. I just want to get an idea what to expect when I do.

Thanks.

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Also, I have several semi-technical questions RE Twitter. If anyone provides some answers, thanks in advance.

1.(Brief Re-cap: I've had my Twitter account since Thurs., Sept. 19, 2013. I tweet about animal welfare primarily, but sometimes also tweet about music, arts/culture (vague, I know), and investigative journalism news stories that I think are interesting/important.) Earlier today, someone that I followed decided to block me. My question is: Is this unusual? I thought blocking was done to spam accounts and/or accounts with offensive material, neither of which I engage in with Twitter or otherwise.

2.If I wish to use a #hashtag that doesn't already exist, how do I create it? Is it just a matter of keying it in on my notebook computer? I know that there's a #hashtag for almost everything but, just in case.

3.When using the DM (Direct Message) feature, is the character limit also 140? Obviously, I haven't used DM yet. I just want to get an idea what to expect when I do.

Thanks.

sock

Hmmm...Not quite the helpful answers I had hoped for...

Hello. It sounds like you are having a technical issue with your Twitter account that may be a little hard for us to diagnose from the information given alone.

Tweet this ticket number I am issuing you so we can locate your account: "9140-2953822-EE306". Please format it exactly as shown, excluding the quotation marks. Once you do this we will be able to verify the error you are experiencing and correct it.

Thank you for tweeting with Twitter!

"seventeen dollars a month is a small price to pay for peace of mind"

Thanks to Treeship, @filmclubbristol, and Zora for following me. I've followed all three of you back.

One other question about #hashtags: Does anyone know if you can use symbols (aside from #) in hastags? Symbols like: $, >, %. Might seem like an odd question but I'm just tryin' to learn this 'Twitter thing'.

I do sort of wish Twitter would die sometimes. If I didn't have to use it for work I'd possibly delete my account...― Evil Juice Box Man (LocalGarda), Tuesday, October 1, 2013 9:00 AM

Fortunately, I don't have to use Twitter for work. Not yet, at least. But, I do know the feeling of wishing Twitter would die. And I can definitely understand the desire to delete the Twitter account.

For what it's worth I don't think I'd be likely to engage with a stranger who keeps asking me to check my email.

For what it's worth I don't think I'd be likely to engage with a stranger who keeps asking me to check my email.

If that's meant for me: I'm not trying to engage with that person on Twitter. That actually refers to a different matter, having to do with a magazine I subscribe to. Their customer service absolutely sucks! And there's apparently something very, very wrong with their email. Approx. 75% (no exaggeration) of the emails to and from that magazine 'disappear' somewhere, (into spam folder? hacked?) both ways: to and from the magazine: the email *truly fails* to get to the intended recipient 75% of the time. You have a choice: Either have the emails go completely unacknowledged or advise the intended recipient to check his/her email. What would you do? Also, two more points: These people (at the magazine) *refuse* to acknowledge that there's any problem with their email (the problem isn't on my end: I've done several 'test-runs' with other email recipients, and there's no problem on my end), and these people solicit email communication. So, if they're soliciting this stuff, and they refuse to check what they're soliciting, what would do? Advising him to check his email isn't my attempt to get him to follow me on Twitter, it's advice to him that his company's email 'system/software' (or whatever the technical term is) is fucked-up and if he wants the email he solicits, he should check his email. Hope that explains that.

Oh, and he's a snippet from an email (one of the few emails that actually got to the intended recipient at that magazine) that the customer service rep/editorial assistant (Christopher) sent to me instructing me to tweet to the intended email recipient (Mark) in order to keep on top of the situation (maybe Christopher is beginning to realize there's something wrong with the company email), (from the email exchange, Christopher to me): "Tweeting is always an effective strategy. Unfortunately I'm no longer in HQ on a regular basis (back in NJ for a while for various family reasons) but I will tell mark to keep an eye out for your email." (Christopher is the one who neglected to capitalize Mark's name in that passage, not me.) So, you see, you're encouraged to tweet to these people in order to make sure he/she actually gets the email. That should explain the matter, I think.

This thread is now the antithesis of twitter.

Oh, and he's a snippet

That should be: here's a snippet

you're a funny one aren't ya

My Twitter account was set up partly for professional purposes, in that I and some of my co-workers were encouraged to be active on Twitter, I identify my occupation in my bio, I sometimes (but by no means exclusively) tweet about work stuff, etc. So we have a little committee at work that meets semi-regularly to discuss strategies for social media, and early on we realized that the best way to gain Twitter followers was just to follow a ton of people. While I did want to gain followers, I didn't care *so much* about it that I was willing to indiscriminately follow a bunch of random people. (I figured it would just clog up my feed.) But my coworkers who did so -- those who started following 1,000+ right away -- managed to pick up at least a few hundred followers fairly quickly.

if someone follows me who has thousands of followers and follows ~the same amount of people i just assume they some bullshit spammy business dude

otm

there are get followers now omg type services that can make you look heaps popular (e.g. our new prime minister's twitter account gained like 60,000 followers overnight)

fucking cannot believe i just said that

anyway

you can buy 10k followers for $60! http://ipmtech.com

holy shit

http://i.imgur.com/wq6lAZ5.jpg

"spies of sorts"

I am shocked - SHOCKED, I SAY - to learn that Twitter has never turned a profit. $1 billion IPO cash-in here we come wheeeee

more like social peedia

hey

They changed the TL again. I don't mind the auto-showing of pictures, but the darker 'reply retweet etc' buttons make it very messy to look at.

app or web?

stock symbol squatting? +1000% profit
https://www.google.com/finance?q=OTCMKTS:TWTRQ

nothing's changed for me. autoshowing of pictures would suck pretty hard

I meent web, Markers. On mobile I use tweetbot (which didn't implement those annoying blue lines tg)

And then there's this: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-10-04/twitter-may-be-forced-to-extend-character-limit/4999514

lol analysts

Documents filed with US Securities and Exchange Commission show Twitter had 218 million active users as of June 30, and lost nearly $US80 million on nearly $US317 million in revenue in 2012.

i don't understand money but doesn't this just mean they were 237 million in the black?

I think it means they had close to $400 million dollars in expenses