Hi Alex, I have a twitter account or had one, but gave up on it because I never could find my followers or the people I was following. . I found twitter very difficult.
----- Original Message ----- From: Alex Hall <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Date: Monday, Mar 8, 2010 22:05:06 Subject: Re: [GWN] The celebration continues: Retweet from GW Micro and win! > > > Twitter (http://www.twitter.com or http://www.accessibletwitter.com) > is what is known as a "micro-blogging service". Basically, people sign > up for it and then send short messages, no more than 140 characters, > to their followers. A follower is simply a person who receives the > tweets sent by the people they follow. Think of it as subscribing to a > magazine: the followers are the subscribers, so only they will get a > copy of each issue of a magazine, no one else. Any subscriber to the > magazine can start their own magazine, and then, though they still > receive magazines, they can start sending out new issues of a > different magazine to their own subscribers. > > A tweet is just one of these short messages. If you send a tweet you > are said to "tweet", and are therefore a "twit" (no, I am completely > serious). A retweet is just a tweet that you send with someone else's > Twitter username at the beginning, like forwarding an email. > > Basically, the GWM promotion here is that you sign into your Twitter > account and retweet the message Jeremy had in the email quoted below; > that is, you write your own tweet, putting GWMicro at the start, since > GWMicro is GWM's Twitter username. As long as you are following > GWMicro (remember, that means you see any tweets they post), they will > be notified that someone just retweeted them (again, a retweet is just > a tweet with a particular person's username in it). They can then see > exactly who retweeted the message and can compile a list of Twits' > usernames from which to draw a winner. > > I hope that the above at least made some sense! > > On 3/8/10, Terri Pannett <[email protected]> wrote: > > OK, I'm Miss Ignoramus USA! > > > > What is Twitter, Tweet, and Retweet? I thought only bird tweeted and > > twittered. > > > > Terri Amateur Radio call sign KF6CA. > > > > If you wish to unsubscribe from this list, visit: > > > > http://www.gwmicro.com/listserv > > > > > > > -- > Have a great day, > Alex (msg sent from GMail website) > [email protected]; http://www.facebook.com/mehgcap > > If you wish to unsubscribe from this list, visit: > > http://www.gwmicro.com/listserv Have a blessed day. Stacey and GEB Dog Chesley [email protected] If you wish to unsubscribe from this list, visit: http://www.gwmicro.com/listserv
