I am on Twitter daily as part of my job. Twitter users refer to each other by using the @ prefix (i.e., if referring to me in your posting, or "tweet", you would use @roncasalotti) and use hashtags (#) as sort of a categorizing tool. The current hashtag for the Iran election is #iranelection (hashtags have no spaces). So, you can use the search box found on your Twitter page -- or go to search.twitter.com -- and enter #iranelection and you will then see the latest tweets for that. Like blog posts, tweets are ordered with the most recent on top, but you can drill down (actually back) to see older ones. Oh, and many Twitter users have tinged their avatar green in sympathy with the Iran opposition party, whose color is green.
On Twitter you'll find a lot of "noise", but also the frequent gem. Just now I looked at my Twiter stream and see a posting stating, "- A little adventure just now when my plane made an emergency landing. All's ok, though.", complete with picture. That was from Schwarzenegger, yes, the Governator himself. Please feel free (anyone out there) to contact me off list if you have any questions about Twitter or how to use it. Ron Casalotti Wayne, NJ On Jun 18, 3:14 pm, PGage <[email protected]> wrote: > I decided to join twitter to try and see some of the reports coming out of > Iran. With help from the young people I learned the basics of facebook, so I > thought I could get up on twitter on my own, but so far, not so much luck. > How do I find the Iran reports? All I could see when I joined was an offer > to "follow" some celebrities (I take it "follower" is the twitter equivalent > of being a facebook "friend". > > What does twitter offer that facebook does not to these Iran reporters? > Couldn't they do as much, or more on facebook? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ TV or Not TV .... Smart (TV) People on Ice! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
