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!