Comments on: Help Me Get My Twitter Magic Back! http://suewaters.com/2007/12/20/help-me-get-my-twitter-magic-back/ Thu, 18 Mar 2010 17:25:18 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 hourly 1 By: vincent http://suewaters.com/2007/12/20/help-me-get-my-twitter-magic-back/comment-page-1/#comment-3172 vincent Sat, 19 Sep 2009 08:13:27 +0000 http://aquaculturepda.edublogs.org/2007/12/20/help-me-get-my-twitter-magic-back/#comment-3172 Account Suspended, Help Me Get My Twitter account Back! Account Suspended, Help Me Get My Twitter account Back!

]]> By: Kathy Jacobs http://suewaters.com/2007/12/20/help-me-get-my-twitter-magic-back/comment-page-1/#comment-1104 Kathy Jacobs Sat, 29 Dec 2007 03:23:42 +0000 http://aquaculturepda.edublogs.org/2007/12/20/help-me-get-my-twitter-magic-back/#comment-1104 One solution I use for keeping up with a steadily growing network is MultiTweet. It was designed to let you get multiple twitter accounts through one interface. But in addition to that, it lets you see the last 500 twits in your stream in a scrolling window. So you can move around in the stream easier. FYI: I found your blog because of twitter. One of my friends suggested I put my blog on http://www.geekgirlblogs.com/ and I saw your post there while browsing it. I guess you might say I am addicted to twitter :) One solution I use for keeping up with a steadily growing network is MultiTweet. It was designed to let you get multiple twitter accounts through one interface. But in addition to that, it lets you see the last 500 twits in your stream in a scrolling window. So you can move around in the stream easier.

FYI: I found your blog because of twitter. One of my friends suggested I put my blog on http://www.geekgirlblogs.com/ and I saw your post there while browsing it. I guess you might say I am addicted to twitter :)

]]> By: Harriet Wakelam http://suewaters.com/2007/12/20/help-me-get-my-twitter-magic-back/comment-page-1/#comment-1099 Harriet Wakelam Fri, 28 Dec 2007 18:43:52 +0000 http://aquaculturepda.edublogs.org/2007/12/20/help-me-get-my-twitter-magic-back/#comment-1099 You made me muse - and yes you do enjoy winding me up :) Better late than never and after much musing about this post - http://tinyurl.com/ysa5zv I think that when it gets too large it stops being personal - Then the conversations lose that personal edge which is what drew us in in the first place.... Perhaps there are dual levels of the relationship - the more personal - Charlie Schick's me and mine - AND the global - it is sure complex - and very much like a real life relationship..... Thanks for starting this You made me muse – and yes you do enjoy winding me up :)

Better late than never and after much musing about this post –

http://tinyurl.com/ysa5zv

I think that when it gets too large it stops being personal – Then the conversations lose that personal edge which is what drew us in in the first place….

Perhaps there are dual levels of the relationship – the more personal – Charlie Schick’s me and mine – AND the global – it is sure complex – and very much like a real life relationship…..

Thanks for starting this

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]]> By: Sue Waters http://suewaters.com/2007/12/20/help-me-get-my-twitter-magic-back/comment-page-1/#comment-1087 Sue Waters Fri, 21 Dec 2007 12:40:53 +0000 http://aquaculturepda.edublogs.org/2007/12/20/help-me-get-my-twitter-magic-back/#comment-1087 Hi John - thanks for your tip re-Firefox and Safari with using Bookmarks. I had never thought of doing that but it is such a great idea. However you can go back further than 10 pages if you manually type in the number (a trick Darren taught me). But for me 10 pages should be enough. Hi Warlach - Snitter is really helping me. Definitely feeling the love again - although my followers may be feeling spammed by now. Agree re the out of control but I am a bit of a control freak (according to the hubby). Even with my RSS very reluctant to press Mark All As Read. Definitely need to work on this. Hi Martin - you have put the whole twitter issue in total perspective. Definitely helps to break apart the process vs technical issue. I agree I have to accept that loss of some of the conversation which I have learnt with blog posts. I have just set up my systems in RSS to become very efficient at reading posts so it is just a matter of been better with my systems at twitter. I had not heard of hashtags until you mentioned them here and as you say it will not work if people don't use them. However the tracking feature they have now added is definitely worth looking into. Actually Brian you are wrong you have definitely added more information and food for thought. I had heard of the magic number but never Gladwell’s The Tipping Point. Looks like I have another book that I will need to read. Thanks for adding your comment. Hi John – thanks for your tip re-Firefox and Safari with using Bookmarks. I had never thought of doing that but it is such a great idea. However you can go back further than 10 pages if you manually type in the number (a trick Darren taught me). But for me 10 pages should be enough.

Hi Warlach – Snitter is really helping me. Definitely feeling the love again – although my followers may be feeling spammed by now. Agree re the out of control but I am a bit of a control freak (according to the hubby). Even with my RSS very reluctant to press Mark All As Read. Definitely need to work on this.

Hi Martin – you have put the whole twitter issue in total perspective. Definitely helps to break apart the process vs technical issue. I agree I have to accept that loss of some of the conversation which I have learnt with blog posts. I have just set up my systems in RSS to become very efficient at reading posts so it is just a matter of been better with my systems at twitter. I had not heard of hashtags until you mentioned them here and as you say it will not work if people don’t use them. However the tracking feature they have now added is definitely worth looking into.

Actually Brian you are wrong you have definitely added more information and food for thought. I had heard of the magic number but never Gladwell’s The Tipping Point. Looks like I have another book that I will need to read. Thanks for adding your comment.

]]> By: Brian C. Smith http://suewaters.com/2007/12/20/help-me-get-my-twitter-magic-back/comment-page-1/#comment-1086 Brian C. Smith Fri, 21 Dec 2007 11:52:22 +0000 http://aquaculturepda.edublogs.org/2007/12/20/help-me-get-my-twitter-magic-back/#comment-1086 I can't add anything truly original to the conversation here but I want to reiterate some points that were made: - don't fret what you've missed, I believe if it is truly important it will surface again either in the blogosphere or someone will tweet it again. - I try to limit who I follow to around 150 people (this comes from Gladwell's The Tipping Point) and the fact that I find it simply too hard to filter from too many folks. While I don't like to unfollow other Twits I will do it to keep the value in my network (addition by subtraction). I can’t add anything truly original to the conversation here but I want to reiterate some points that were made:
- don’t fret what you’ve missed, I believe if it is truly important it will surface again either in the blogosphere or someone will tweet it again.
- I try to limit who I follow to around 150 people (this comes from Gladwell’s The Tipping Point) and the fact that I find it simply too hard to filter from too many folks. While I don’t like to unfollow other Twits I will do it to keep the value in my network (addition by subtraction).

]]> By: Martin http://suewaters.com/2007/12/20/help-me-get-my-twitter-magic-back/comment-page-1/#comment-1084 Martin Fri, 21 Dec 2007 08:35:49 +0000 http://aquaculturepda.edublogs.org/2007/12/20/help-me-get-my-twitter-magic-back/#comment-1084 Thanks for these links by the way Sue. There are two types of solution to your problem as I see it: the technical one which people have suggested here, or a process one. Howard suggests some good process ones. Another is to just make the shift to accepting that you will miss some conversations, like blog posts - you know you can't read them all, but accept that you'll get enough of the overall conversation. Or does that make the conversations in Twitter too fragmented? Are hashtags any use here? I haven't really got my head around them. But could you follow selected hashtags from certain people. e.g. 'Most of what that mweller posts is rubbish, but if he tags something 'VLE' then I'll read it.' Of course this would rely on people using hashtags regularly. Thanks for these links by the way Sue. There are two types of solution to your problem as I see it: the technical one which people have suggested here, or a process one. Howard suggests some good process ones. Another is to just make the shift to accepting that you will miss some conversations, like blog posts – you know you can’t read them all, but accept that you’ll get enough of the overall conversation. Or does that make the conversations in Twitter too fragmented?
Are hashtags any use here? I haven’t really got my head around them. But could you follow selected hashtags from certain people. e.g. ‘Most of what that mweller posts is rubbish, but if he tags something ‘VLE’ then I’ll read it.’ Of course this would rely on people using hashtags regularly.

]]> By: Warlach http://suewaters.com/2007/12/20/help-me-get-my-twitter-magic-back/comment-page-1/#comment-1083 Warlach Fri, 21 Dec 2007 00:31:32 +0000 http://aquaculturepda.edublogs.org/2007/12/20/help-me-get-my-twitter-magic-back/#comment-1083 The last point I forgot to make was to not worry about missing stuff. As Alan said, it's a stream. Same with RSS - if it gets out of control, just cull all the unread and start again. If it's important it will make its way back to you, most of Twitter isn't afterall, but it is fun. :) The last point I forgot to make was to not worry about missing stuff. As Alan said, it’s a stream. Same with RSS – if it gets out of control, just cull all the unread and start again.

If it’s important it will make its way back to you, most of Twitter isn’t afterall, but it is fun. :)

]]> By: John Pederson http://suewaters.com/2007/12/20/help-me-get-my-twitter-magic-back/comment-page-1/#comment-1082 John Pederson Thu, 20 Dec 2007 14:37:56 +0000 http://aquaculturepda.edublogs.org/2007/12/20/help-me-get-my-twitter-magic-back/#comment-1082 Hint. In both Firefox and Safari I set up the "Bookmark Toolbar". I have a folder on that toolbar called "Twitter". Inside that folder I have Twitter bookmarked. Then I go one page "older" in Twitter and bookmark that, calling it "Twitter 2". Continue doing that until you get to "Twitter 10". (Twitter only lets you go that far back.) When I need to "catch up", I click on the folder and say "open folder in tabs". It opens 10 pages worth of Twitter. Hint.

In both Firefox and Safari I set up the “Bookmark Toolbar”. I have a folder on that toolbar called “Twitter”. Inside that folder I have Twitter bookmarked. Then I go one page “older” in Twitter and bookmark that, calling it “Twitter 2″. Continue doing that until you get to “Twitter 10″. (Twitter only lets you go that far back.)

When I need to “catch up”, I click on the folder and say “open folder in tabs”. It opens 10 pages worth of Twitter.

]]> By: Sue Waters http://suewaters.com/2007/12/20/help-me-get-my-twitter-magic-back/comment-page-1/#comment-1081 Sue Waters Thu, 20 Dec 2007 11:40:58 +0000 http://aquaculturepda.edublogs.org/2007/12/20/help-me-get-my-twitter-magic-back/#comment-1081 Hi Susan - thanks for telling me about your blog post on the same topic. I enjoyed reading your post and learning how you are handling it. Have to admit I am one of the worst offenders for chatter - but in my defense most of it is directed at individuals and my network that follows the same individuals are all like this. It is just part of our community interaction. I think you are right though about selective listening - I just have to be more effective with it. Hi Susan – thanks for telling me about your blog post on the same topic. I enjoyed reading your post and learning how you are handling it.

Have to admit I am one of the worst offenders for chatter – but in my defense most of it is directed at individuals and my network that follows the same individuals are all like this. It is just part of our community interaction.

I think you are right though about selective listening – I just have to be more effective with it.

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