Two more twitter tips

It's been a super-busy few weeks for me. I have a few more new followers on Twitter and I've had lots to explore to try and answer questions from people who are still getting used to new things, like me. I'm trying to be helpful but I'm just having a go myself and then I tell people what I found. I hope that's okay!

Twitter is great, and is teaching me heaps, but I've been getting a bit dizzy with all the information on there! Last week I found really useful things like URL shorteners (I like http://www.bit.ly/ and http://www.is.gd/). These are handy because you only have 140 letters in a tweet, and often a website address can be really long! I made a quick video to show what I do here.

One thing I've also noticed is that after you follow more than 100 people, it feels like quite a lot of information if you want to quickly look at your Twitter stream, or newsfeed, or whatever you call it. One tip I saw was that you can make 'lists' to categorise people you follow. If you follow some teachers, for example, you could make a list called 'teachers' and add them to it. Then you can just choose to look at that list if you want to quickly see what they're talking about. Or you can just do what I do and try to read everything, then get confused and hide behind your computer until it goes away.

I've seen heaps of really good videos recently, so I'm going to explore some video-sharing websites in the next week or two and see what I can learn. Wish me luck! 

New friends and new finds on Twitter

It's Friday already! The week goes so fast when you're exploring all the time *cough*. I get so dizzy sometimes from all the new things I'm looking at and next thing I know it's the weekend and everyone is going home again *sigh*...

This week I've been really trying to get my tail into Twitter and sharing what I'm doing. I had a go at following new people and practised how to do a reply and retweet. I think I did okay.

Then I had a go at exploring #ELTchat and discovered that there are heaps of transcripts and summaries of past conversations on their website. I made another video of that and found some really nice music in Soundcloud that was okay for me to use because it's licensed under a Creative Commons thing. I need to explore that more later, because it's a bit complicated for me right now.
I have some new followers on Twitter too! A big fluffly hello to @morgan2morgan, @kimmy_tee, @zeusmeister10, @cherrymp, @louisekane2, @kzaneh, @conniefessler, @gracehyh, @barbsaka and everyone else! I had one or two funny tweeps follow me who were tweeting about naughty things but I just blocked them and they can't follow me any more! Easy! *sparkle*
Excited about what I might explore next week, but for now I'm super-tired. Think I'll have a snooze behind my old computer

Gremlins?

Ooh, golly, I’m in trouble now! After I got a bit wet in the rain the other week, I started to feel a bit funny. Next thing I knew, there were 2 of me! And then 4 of me! I fluffled off and hid behind the computer in my dust where I feel safe. I waited as long as I could for the sounds of multiplying fluff and tweeting tails to stop, and when I looked out again, I was everywhere! I was so frightened by the multiple me that I closed my eyes very tight and went grey so they wouldn’t see me.

After a while I ventured out from behind my old computer and had a look. They were gone! All of them! I thought I saw a little white tail fluffling off to the teachers’ room but I didn’t dare follow.

Now I’ve noticed there are people in Parramatta and Cabramatta who have started following me on Twitter and making friends with me, even though I’ve never met them before. I wonder if the other Navitars have gone travelling…?