Although I have a twitter account, I am not a great tweeter and I don’t really “get” twitter.
I opened my twitter account when there were one or two hiccups on Blotanical when it was burgeoning at the seams. Twitter seemed to be the best way to follow Stuart and find out what was going on. Then, well I thought I might as well follow James As because he was quite amusing, and I added my children as a way of keeping up with them. Then one or two other folk.
I suppose twitter works best if you have either a) a mobile phone, or b) sit in front of a computer all day. As I do neither of these, I have only managed to put 7 tweets up there.
Also, I don’t think I know what to put – my life is not that interesting, I don’t get out enough to see anything attention-grabbing, and I don’t explore the web adequately to find curiosities. I have enough to do just keeping up with the 100’s of blogs I read, and that’s just the gardening ones – lets not even start on the art related ones.
I imagine my tweets would be along the lines of “It’s raining in Wales” or “It’s raining a lot in Wales”
I then forgot my password for my twitter account and didn’t bother much with it at all.
Somehow, however I seem to have 37 followers! Now while I realize that this is small fry compared to the 338 that follow Dawn Isaac, or the 1,235,147 followers that Stephen Fry has, or rather had. (Yikes, 1,235,147 – I don’t even know how to say that number) I still have to wonder why, how, I have 37 followers. The biggest surprise was yesterday Anne Wareham – Thinkingardens started following me.
Not for one moment do I think that Anne is following my tweets (All 7 over a period of 9 months) I imagine I am on some list somewhere as a garden blogger and that my followers live in hope that one day I might say something that is interesting or amusing
I suppose I find Twitter confusing, it feels like I am at a big party and don’t know anyone – there seem to be lots of conversations going on that are completely above my head – fragments of things that I know absolutely nothing about or don’t understand the context
My web savvy children however tell me that I should twitter whenever I put up a blog post and put a retweet button here in case someone wants to retweet something I have written. So I now have a shiny new “Tweets” button to the right of my blog posts – if someone could press it I would be very grateful – then I will find out how it works.
Social networking is so massive now – that I could spend all my days on the web, poking people on facebook, admiring and commenting on fantastic images at flickr, then there is blotanical and a couple of ning sites that I belong too – Oh and then the Yahoo groups;- lets not even go there!! Not forgetting that I actually have three blogs.
So my question is
Do you twitter, and if so WHY?
(You can fill me on the who you choose to follow etc as well if you want)
For anyone who doesn’t understand a word of this post – don’t worry, you are probably much better off and will certainly spend less time than I hunched over a keyboard!
And if you are my osteopath … I am not hunched, honest
Hi Karen. yes, I do twitter. I started off as part of finding out more about using social media for marketing. I decided that I would take the same approach as I do to my blog – that is just write about things I thought were interesting and let the marketing bit look after itself. I do find it quite fun now I have got into it. I reckon you need to tweet half a dozen times a day to feel part of it, or at least a couple. The main benefit is that it has introduced me to some interesting people I didn’t really know about before (dawn as you say, Mark Diacomo from Otter farm and Anne Wareham herself to name just a few). I would quite miss it now if I didn’t do it. It is easy to fit into a passing moment and a lot less time consuming that blogging, and also probably ultimately less satisfying than blogging too.
Worth a whirl though. I follow you, just in case you ever say anything!
Hi Elizabeth – I follow you too – and I quite enjoy the little tweets you put up there! OK, maybe I will try a bit harder
K
elizabethm´s last blog ..Resolutions
I do twitter…but Ive separated my twitter accounts to keep me sane. I have one for each of my two blogs(which are totally different in content so it makes sense to keep them separate) Wordpress will post short code URLs of your posts automatically to Twitter without you having to do a thing. And I maintain another private one for keeping up with friends and and family who tweet.
I quite like it-I don’t understand all of its intricacies ,and rely on my teenager and teenager soon to be to tell me where I’m going wrong,but I do enjoy it( though I dont tweet as much as I should !)and get tiny a glow of recognition when Im re tweeted.
Hi Joolsfw, and thanks for letting us know hoe you twitter – not sure if I could have two separate twitter accounts, I think that the “garden bloggers” will just have to ignore my tweets if I comment about textile related stuff!
K
Joolsfw´s last blog ..The Thaw is Here…..
I started on Twitter (in an alter ego form) back in the summer when a favourite musician joined the Twit Scene, and a group of his fans, some of whom I know from forums on his website, also went along. Then about a month or so ago I decided to join using my bloomingwriter/real name, using a separate account. I don’t post to the music one anymore, but kept it for when the musician releases new music or plays concerts, etc.
Twitter can be like a conversation in a coffee shop, just chatting back and forth by times; sometimes if you have something longer to say, you just go to twitlonger. Other times, it’s like a monologue. I follow a lot of people who provide links to awesome information about gardening, but also follow some whose blogs I just really like and so I follow them to see what else they’re saying. Don’t feel like it’s a chore or a to-do. It ought to be fun, or else don’t sweat it. I’ll follow you anyway!
Thanks Jodi, no, I will stop if it becomes a chore
K
jodi (bloomingwriter)´s last blog ..Four years of bloomingwriter’s bloomin’ rantings
I’m following you! Oh dear, that sounds a bit creepy. I love Twitter, but am aware that my tweets are a hopeless jumble of work stuff and home stuff, so I’m not sure that they make a huge amount of sense to those that follow me…
(lol) Hi Amanda, I do think it is funny that you follow me and I say nothing … perhaps that will change this winter and I can talk more about the rain
K
Amanda´s last blog ..Spooky sunset
ooops – allready my shiny new “tweets” button is showing an error – I will have to see about that.
Amanda, Jodi, Joolsfw and Elizabeth, thanks so much for your input – I can see that in a couple of days I will be following a lot more than the 19 I currently follow
I use twitter because I enjoy the party, and, as at a party, I think you have to engage with people to enjoy it. That means being interested in what they say and do and think. About all sorts – not just gardens. All the many things that interest – history, archaeology, science, politics, events, cooking….
I use twitter because I don’t often read blogs, not even ones advertised on twitter. and I don’t write a blog. Don’t have time for either but a tweet is quick.
I do also use it to try to bring people to thinkingardens (and sometimes the Veddw) both as writers and readers because that’s what I’m about – good gardens and garden writing, hopefully impinging in the end on gardens and all garden writing.
I use it to ask questions, to ask for help, and to tell people about bad products and services.
I follow people sometimes just because they said something bright, engaging, interesting, useful. No matter if I then don’t hear from them for ages.
But hope I will hear from you more! XXXX
Anne, thanks for taking time to leave such a full and frank comment, and for following me – this was the kick I needed to take another look at twitter.
K
I was very anti-tweeting for ages believing it to be lots of people telling each other what they had for lunch. Then I had an interesting conversation with a couple of good friends who are digital media types and convinced me it’s more a form of social networking and a way of keeping abreast of news.
Now I’m a convert. I follow gardening and parent bloggers as it’s a great way to find out when people are posting, or to discover new bloggers and to get to know them all better. I also follow the odd columnist (such as Caitlin Moran) whose pieces I enjoy and for whom Twitter seems to be the perfect medium for their wit. Plus, I follow friends as it’s a great way to keep abreast of what they’re doing.
Best of all, when my husband comes in after a day in London and tells me some piece of news or gossip, imagaining it wil liven up my dull life of domesticity, I usually give a nonchalent shrug and say – yeah, I already know, it’s been on Twitter.
Dawn/LittleGreenFingers´s last blog ..Ice mobiles, umbrellas and Sod’s law
Hi Karen
I only started twittering last year & I love it. I don’t do a blog but a lot of the people I follow do & I love reading them. I also learn a lot from them as well. My interests are gardening, food & wine. I don’t tweet that much or I have’nt up till now but with more time on my hands I will be doing more & who knows where it will lead. I am following you now! Hope you don’t mind.
Having said all that – I don’t have a lovely retweet button yet like yours. Must get me one of them!
……Yes you need to get one of those shiny retweet buttons, then I can push it
K
Dawn/LittleGreenFingers´s last blog ..Ice mobiles, umbrellas and Sod’s law
Now that is a very good question. I was originally under the impression that it was a phone thing then I realised it could be done from my computer where I spend a lot of the day. I vowed I wouldn’t get involved as I don’t like being too ubiquitous (less is definitely more with Socks) then I lurked, then I twittered, now it is just another thing to get addicted to so I am trying to pull back and just tweet when I have posted something but this isn’t being altogether successful as yet. It doesn’t suit someone with a slightly paranoid personality. Two of my followers disappeared and I felt bereft even though I had know idea who had stopped following me.
Had I bored them away? Were they expecting something better than a bit of wittering drivel? I checked my followers several times to make sure my favourites were there but what if one of them had gone? I would have been totally bereft and spiralled into despair and self-hatred!
Must go and see if there are any more interesting tweetse come up…
Arabella – Crikey … something else for me to worry about, driving followers away through boredom
K
I have an account, but seldom tweet.
Hi Nancy, and thanks for chiming in – it is interesting to me who does what with their twitter accounts.
K
Nancy Bond´s last blog ..“Sun” Seekers
Yes I twitter but like you for the longest time I didn’t understand what it was all about. Still don’t from time to time. Your *It’s raining in Wales* cracked me up as that is exactly the sort of thing that people twitter about. You don’t have to live the life of Riley of be Mr Fry to twitter. I twitter on about going on walkies with my Ickle Pup and believe it or not but quite a few people are fascinated by stuff like that.
Hi Yolanda Elizabet – really, you talk about your walks with the puppy! must see if I can find you on twitter (lol)
Thanks for adding to the discussion
K
Yolanda Elizabet´s last blog ..Indulging in a Spot of Indoor Gardening
Hi Karen,
No I don’t tweet, I don’t have a clue about it, I don’t ‘get it’ either. Seems pointless to me and yet another variation on facebook and all the other stalker inducing websites out there!
I only joined facebook at threat of death from my brother… Ok, so he wasn’t quite threatening, but complaining often enough ‘why aren’t you on?’ blah blah blah.
Hi Liz – I only joined face book to keep up with my children and I rather wish I hadn’t, as all kinds of folk find me there now.
(Note to self, cancel facebook)
K
liz´s last blog ..Song Thrush and a Jay
Hi Karen – Wow, you do so much! How do you keep up with all of that? I already waste waaaay to much time on Blotanical and blogs and blogging and Facebook, so I guess I have decided not to participate in the Twitter flock. Plus, I don’t have a handheld, just a boring old phone that I don’t even text on. As you say, I think it favors a different lifestyle and set of gadget ownership. But, if I did join, I would follow you for sure! I’m sure your 7 tweets are funnier or more exciting than you say, and certainly more so than most folks’.
Trust me Karen,my tweets were totally dull – I also feel a bit self conscious doing it, bizarre really when I splatter my gardening and creative life all over the internet.
K
Karen´s last blog ..Raised Bed Cover and a Couple of Crows
Being an old fashioned kind of girl, I like to use the phone and talk to people. Don’t actually understand Twitter, so you can show it to me at the weekend. Don’t understand facebook either. Oh dear, I think I need pulling into the 21st centuary!
No honestly Dobby, you are fine just where you are ….. unless the company you work for Twitters? ….. (lol)
K
Karen:
I started Twitter last year, someone mentioned the whole social network thing, and really I hadn’t thought about it. Now I visit once a day and leave a link to a recent post. I have seen an increase in readership as a result….. but in truth, I think I make for a boring Twit. no puns intended. Mine is not an exciting existence… at least not yet! What surprises me as well are the number of followers that seem to appear overnight. I like that you have settings so that you can regulate who reads your posts as well…. one never knows what evil lurks
OK Teza, now I have to find out more about the settings, thanks for sharing your experience of Twitter
K
teza´s last blog ..Woe Be The Flatterers and Sycophants Ramble (Part the Eleventh)
I didn’t get twitter, but now I really like it. The variety is great and its not full of asking people to be friends with you. You just follow who you wish famous or not. I find it funny and informative and dip in and out of it depending on what is going on with me
Hi Rhiannon, you were one of the first people I followed on Twitter!
Thanks for taking the time to leave a comment here
K
rhiannon´s last blog ..Nothing can be done
I’ve had a twitter account for a while Karen but kept forgetting my password and could not get my head round how it works. Same with Facebook. However wanting to keep up modern technology this year might be the year although I can’t think of what I would say. Now I’m off to investigate what a ning site is before I lose the plot completely
Anna – this is what ning is used for
“Ning is an online service that allows users to create their own social networks and join and participate in other networks. No technical skill is required to set up a social network, and there are no limits to the number of networks a user can join. Users of Ning social networks have access to functionality similar to that of more well-known social networks, such as Facebook and MySpace. Various features allow users to read news or learn about related events, join groups, read and comment on blog entries, view photos and videos, and other activities as set up by the network creator. RSS feeds let users subscribe to updates from specific parts of the social network.”
I am currently doing an online course which has been set up on ning
Anna´s last blog ..Fancy A Spot Of Gentle Digging?
It’s interesting that you have written this post at this moment because, either today or yesterday, I saw you had said something in a twitter column on somebody’s blog. (Elizabeth, Dawn?) and had a reaction something like ‘Oh, I didn’t know she did such things,’! And – ‘How does this twittering fit with this particular blog?’ . . . I tried to read down the column and couldn’t make head or tail of it. It was as if I had come across a group of very respectable people doing something improper and I felt a bit put out!
By chance, I came across Twitter when it was in its very infant stage (one night when I was sleepless) and thereafter thought it hilarious and completely without sense and went round telling everyone about it because someone had said they’d just made coffee . . . and I thought this was so brilliantly interesting in its boringness I just couldn’t stop exclaiming about it. At that point, no-one I told seemed to have heard of Twitter either and I was completely flaberghasted when it ‘took off’.
So I thought I would look into it more and it seemed anyone could put things on your twitter column (I expect there’s a technical name for it but I don’t yet know what it is) and I decided I didn’t like that. It’s hard enough monitoring comments on blogs. And I assumed the conversations only make sense if you follow them remark by remark . . . and – back to blogs, I find I can never keep up with replying to comments there, despite my best efforts – I just run out of time – so how would I keep up with Twitter? (Anyway, I don’t want to know when people have had their coffee!)
I’m wondering if you (or someone) might write a post one step back from here . . . take those of us bewildered non-twitterers straight back to the beginning and explain how it works . . . and how you cope with all the different people . . . and the people you don’t know who just appear . . .
Lucy
P.S. I feel I should be able to sign ‘Bewildered in Wrexham’ (in homage to Tunbridge Wellsers).
So funny Lucy, trust you to be ahead of the game regarding twitter – perhaps I will ask no1 son if he will do a guest post for me about it … I will let you know if he says yes.
So … the next big thing is google wave
Lucy Corrander´s last blog ..SAND FROZEN SOLID
Twitter is useful for finding out news quickly, like when an online garden supply or plant company has a sale or free shipping. It was also interesting to read about the weather in Austin, TX – during the heat of summer and the freeze of winter. I don’t tweet much, just occasional garden-related things that don’t merit a whole post, or something non-garden related that I wouldn’t blog about. I also put a link to my posts, when I remember. That said, I’m not really crazy about it, as it is hard to follow the threads & I don’t have much time to spend on it.
Hi Mr McGD and thanks for adding to the comments here – I also find the whole thread thing quite hard too, but I am coming around to the idea that it may have its uses, (well in the winter when I am at my computer more)
K
Mr. McGregor’s Daughter´s last blog ..The Zen of Snow Shoveling
Finally….
Hi No1 son ….I know, I know sometimes I am a bit slow about these things
Mum
Karen, I signed up….and can’t recall my password, either! It’s probably easily retrievable, but it’s one more thing to keep up! I love blogging, I email and phone my pals! gail
Hi Gail, I am getting quite bad at e-mails now – I seem to get so many, I must go through all the company/shop ones and get my name off lists – I cannot see my friends for junk. Thanks for visiting
K
Gail´s last blog ..Not Fit For Human or Beast
Hi Karen, I don’t twitter, tweet, chirp, or flutter. Well… maybe I flutter around a bit when I’m not paying attention to what I should be doing! ha. No, I’m not interested in this. I’m busy enough with blogging, e-mail, etc. too. Don’t know that this helped you at all, but there you go.
Hi Shady, I am interested in what other people do/dont do so thanks for commenting
K
Shady Gardener´s last blog ..Once Upon a Morning Dreary
Nope, no tweeting here. I just began to actually use a cell phone last November, and that only under duress (our home phone line quit functioning and the phone co. couldn’t seem to be bothered about fixing it), and then only for speaking to another human being live. I don’t “get it,” either. I assume it’s like a foreshortened version of Facebook, which was cool until all the folks I went to high school with discovered it and began to overwhelm me with the details of their lives and that ridiculous farmville came along.
Blogs and blotanical are plenty fascinating and time-consuming enough for me, anyhow. Kudos to you for trying to keep up, though!
I dont use a cell phone any more as we don’t get a signal here, mind you I don’t pick up the house phone to people as often as I should either … sometimes I would quite like to write a real letter with pen and paper, but I am not sure that my writing is legible any more ;0 Thanks for taking time to leave a comment.
K
Meredith´s last blog ..trying something new
I’ve been trying to twitter for 3 or 4 months and don’t quite get it either. How does this button thing work/ the abbreviated language / someone you are following is having some kind of conversation with another – so you are only getting one side and can’t figure out what they are talking about. Since I only have a couple of followers (one is my very computer savvy niece who taught my how to blog) so far my tweets have been on the mundane side. I do like that some organizations twitter – my library for example, so I know what programs are coming up. In fact the library is having a program on social networking…I should check it out.
What would we do without computer savvy youngsters to keep us up to date? I think I will see if I can find you on twitter – but then how will I know what name you have there? Oh its all quite confusing
K
Jill-O´s last blog ..Wordless Wednesday 1/13/10
Ah, man….I have a Twitter account and also do not “tweet.” Don’t we have enough on our plates without adding one more thing that keeps us indoors at the computer? Oh, that said, I also don’t have a PDA or phone that allows me to “tweet” on the run. However, reading all these comments I’m thinking I should rethink it. Keeping up with new software, new social marketing stuff, new digital photography stuff, blogging, e-mail, website and all the peripheral ETCETERA takes time away from tromping in the woods and taking pictures…which is what I’d rather be doing! Maybe like Jill-O, I should take a class. Sounds like a plan. Anyway, GOOD LUCK and I’ll check out your shiny Tweet/Twitter/Whatever buttons and see what’s what….! Have Fun!
Hi Debi, and thanks for you fun comment – I think I am playing with twitter as the snow and ice and vertigo is keeping me indoors, I am sure when the warmer days come the only tweering going on here will be the birds in the garden
K
Debi´s last blog ..Ice Udders
I perpetually run through a conversation with myself on whether or not to Twitter, but I’m getting so bad at answering blog comments and emails (even though I love receiving them) that I always pull back from adding another form of ‘conversation’ to the mix.
Also when I was doing a distance learning course I always found it really hard to keep track of conversations with the 3 or 4 people whenever I went into the course chat room and I envisage that this aspect would be even worse with Twitter. I imagine that if you’re following say 25 people in there, who all Tweet something a couple of times a day and maybe reply to a couple of things that have been said too, it would be impossible to keep up with who said what in relation to what etc etc. As an outsider I’m also worried about the potential for spam and hacked DMs too – perhaps there are ways of dealing with that?
Of course I could be completely wrong about all of that.
Perhaps if I only blogged a couple of times a week, then there would be time to let Twitter into my life!
I’ve just been out in all this morning’s fresh new snow to our local farm shop where I’ve been nattering to a local garden designer about all things gardeny for 4 hours! I’ve come back refreshed and enthusiastic about gardening – I’m not sure I’d feel the same if I’d been sitting at my computer tweeting all morning…
VP´s last blog ..ABC Wednesday 5: Z is for…
Me again – back with a question this time!
I’ve just been looking through my site stats and see I’ve been tweeted, so I went into Twitter and searched on veg plotting. As usual when this happens, a site which seems to specialise in tweeting lots of links to blog posts from different blogs was the culprit.
What’s all that about then? Is it the tweetworld equivalent of a splog? How does it work and what purpose does it have?
VP´s last blog ..ABC Wednesday 5: Z is for…
VP – I have no idea, I think I am probably the wrong person to ask, as I still dont really understand the whole Twitter experience.
I will ask my son PLUS I am sure that someone somewhere will pop up and answer the question – if they do I will contact you
So someone, anyone, PLEASE answer VP’s question
Thank you
Thanks Karen – I thought it might be one for your son or your Twitter savvy readers
VP´s last blog ..ABC Wednesday 5: Z is for…
I Tweet partly because it amuses me, partly to find out interesting stuff but mainly because it gives me an excuse not to do something else.
Probably something more tedious but better paid!
James – of course I follow your tweets – I enjoy their diversity
K
I tweet intermittenty, more so since I’ve reduced my working hours (Twitter is banned at work, along with blogs
).
It’s a fun way of finding out about other peoples’ blogs (I’ve learnt lots about Victorian London since I started following a history blogger). Most importantly, it makes me laugh – lots of funny replies to peoples comments. It is certainly confusing to start off, though.
My better half wrote an ‘Introduction to Twitter’ post on his blog when he got newly addicted to it (please feel free ot delete the link if you don’t like links in comments): http://somebeans.blogspot.com/2009/10/confessions-of-twitter-addict.html It has some useful bits and pieces in it.
HappyMouffetard´s last blog ..Going back to my (snow) roots
Happy M. Thanks so much for the link to the post that SomeBeans wrote – the more I learn about Twitter, the happier I will be.
Having “followed” you to-day, the only thing I can say is where on earth to you find the things you twitter – your “total eclipse of the heart” link had me in stitches.
K
Ah, the Total Eclipse link came from another total waste of time using the internet – Stumbling. It’s amazing I get anything done at all
HappyMouffetard´s last blog ..Going back to my (snow) roots
Nope, don’t twitter, or do facebook, although my daughter is trying to convince me I should. Like you, I am not on my computer all day. There would be no time to garden, quilt, sew, do photography, read, or walk. Then what could I write about?
Hi Sandy – you are right, so much to do so little time, here we are half way through January and I am not in my studio, thanks for adding to this post
K
LOL> I just found this Karen. I do have a Twitter account and I don’t do it often either. Maybe a dozen times since I joined last year or maybe the previous year. I too forgot my password. I just wanted to know what all the fusss was about really.
Mags, lovely to see you over here
I wonder sometimes how many times we sign up for things and then never get any further because we loose our passwords 
K
Mags´s last blog ..Yesterday’s photos
I twitter and have had some trouble figuring out where it fits in the social media scheme of things. My blog posts there automatically–you can set this up with tweedeck, I think. Over time, I’ve started using it more, though I find that it is much like my life–some days I feel chatty; some days not so much.
Hi Susan – Yes, I have just discovered “tweetdeck”, so now my computer chimes at me frequently during the day! Thanks for letting us know hoe you twitter.
K
Susan Tomlinson´s last blog ..Specimen preparation: Lesser Prairie Chicken
Karen,
I must admit that I don’t really “get” Twitter, either. I have an account, which I have used a few times, and like you, I found myself wondering how I managed to acquire 35 followers. I have tweeted probably a total of 12 times in the past two years. Honestly, I don’t really feel like I have anything pressing to tweet about. After reading your post, I logged into my account for the first time in about 2 months, and found I have 16 new follower requests. I think I must be missing something when it comes to the appeal of Twitter.
(lol) Hi Liisa – I know where do some of the followers come from? Why do they follow us folk who don’t twitter? Although I have put more tweets up there yesterday and to-day than I had in the previous 9 months. Thanks for commenting
K
Liisa´s last blog ..Thoughts on Zonal Denial
I agree, it takes mountains of time to be a tech gal, Karen. Have a Twitter account but barely Tweet (once/twice a week), also on FB (mostly family/friend thing) and must feed my blog once in awhile! I agree with Jodi, this should be fun … but I miss having time to read my stack of books piling up!
Hi Jodi, The internet is surely the most time consuming place imaginable!
Not so bad during the winter months, for me – but once I am back at work it will all go to pot again. Thanks for commenting
K
joey´s last blog ..JANUARY THAW (CRAVING COLOR … CRAVING COMFORT!) ~ ARBORIO RICE PUDDING
I think I will pass for a little longer on Twitter I find keeping my two blogs going is quite enough for now. I do hope your back does a quick recovery nice warm weather would be a good start.
K
Karen, your blog is wonderful. I’m just begining with a blog about Italian regional cuisine, when there is something to read I’ll send you a link. When the cuisine blog is up and running I really want to start a garden blog. My garden is now growing well and it would be interesting to compare seasons, climatic effects etc.
with my best wishes for 2010 (Wow! what a number that is!)
Christina
Christina, How truly WONDERFUL to see you here, glad you like the blog. Please do send me a llink to your when you are ready, especially if you start a gardening blog, comparisons would be such fun, although after last year I may come and live with you. Also give me link to your cooking blog.
Big hugs to you, so glad you left a comment.
K
I tweet as you know but then I spend most days in front of a PC and it is an amusing diverison from my work. I am pretty selective in who I follow or it just becomes too much. All the people I follow are garden related in some way and we often have amusing/childish or sometimes sensible conversation about gardening topics (often vaguely related) although quite often go off topic. I also put up links to my blog posts and the ones I do for yell.com. I have made some interesting contacts through twitter including Anne Wareham who has offered me cake when I visit her garden this year.
Oh Yes Helen – I DO know you tweet!
Thanks so much for commenting here on how you choose people to follow – will Anne Wareham give me cake if I visit her garden?
K
Helen´s last blog ..Lots of packets of anticipation
If you do decide to look for me on Twitter, do a search under my handle – Jellyfishbay. It’s kind of whimsical sounding and I’m very fond of it. If I ever get my life together, I will use JellyfishBay as my company name, shop name or theatre company name. Somehow it will be used professionally. Now I am really off the subject. Hope your day today is a good one.
Jill-O´s last blog ..Wordless Wednesday 1/13/10
I’m being really thick. I’ve tried looking at Twitter on Wikipedia. I’ve looked at the information about Twitter on the Wordpress site – and I still don’t know what that little button you’ve got is for. I did think about seeing what would happen if I tried to press it – but what if it exlodes?
Lucy
Lucy Corrander´s last blog ..CLOUD BEHIND BARS
Jill-o …. got you
K
Lucy …
I think that little button works if you have a twitter account, then press it, it automatically tweets it (basically it says the name of the post with a link, retweeted) this means that who ever read it either a) liked the post enough to think it worth mentioning to all their followers, or b) just re tweets stuff or c) they don’t have a twitter account, they press the button and the whole world explodes!
K