Thanks Ron, all of that was helpful. I have been reading about these hashtags, and was slowly starting to figure it out inductively, but you have cleared it up nicely (it seems like Twitter should actually hire you to write some orientation material for new users - I thought I was a little lost when I first joined facebook 9 months ago, but that was nothing compared to how adrift it felt to first log onto twitter).
The noise level in these twitter messages is so high that I can't possibly imagine using it for anything, except events like this, where the magnitude justifies the work of wading through it all. But, as previously mentioned, with the greater magnitude comes greater frustration in not being able to assign proper credibility to the various messages. On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 7:00 PM, Ron <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
