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I cannot get passed the "what are you doing?" phrase. LOL

I've signed up for Twitter, but have forgotten where and what my vital stats are!
Chez.

I'm on Twitter and I check in daily just to see what's new.

I find it's much less personal than a site like this, or Facebook, and on Twitter you can have thousands of people following you ..... which I am not so sure I am fond of ! And I have come across my fair share of "questionables' but I simply block them immediately !

I have yet to understand exactly what purpose Twitter serves (unless you are famous or a journlist) but am waiting to see what will happen with the service next.

Facebook has been majorally overhauled several times since I've been on it ..... one guarantee is that nothing stays the same and Twitter won't either !

I never heard of Twitter and I still don't understand what it's all about. I guess it's time for me to get off the computer. LOL

LOL...LOL that's what Barbara Walters said about it at first. She lost interst after a while. It didn't work for her at all.

Hi Daf... hope this isn't too much info... lol...because I'm trying to learn more I did this research. Go to blog dot twitter dot com view link ... scroll down to "Twitter for your business" and find the text quoted below, included here for those not so interested, ok. At boldface, below, at Twitter website you'll find LINKS to Sign in OR Sign up (JOIN). Best advice is to FOLLOW others at sites you enjoy reading. ALSO when you answer the question about = "What are you doing?" in 140 characters... be sure to type-in an URL / website where you want viewers to visit and/or FOLLOW you. CLICK those "followers" and they will follow you. You'll get more TIPS at the LINKS where the following is posted. See = view link I followed a link to Barack Obama and just take your pick! Oprah, The New York Times, etc. Sharlet

" Getting Started

The steps to get active on Twitter are simple and can be done without much effort. Simply register on Twitter and you can start to follow other users. If you don’t want to start with your companies brand name you can simply use your own name to see how your use of Twitter evolves. If that works out well, you can switch to an account that represent your organization. Nevertheless registering your company name already now is a good idea anyway to ensure that nobody else can use it.

Finding users to follow can be done through the integrated user search or by doing a Twitter search with your brand name and following the users that are talking about your brand. Additionally you can setup auto-follow functionality based on certain keywords through services like view link

In order to work with Twitter efficiently you can install a desktop client like TweetDeck which offers a lot of functionality (i.e. user search, keyword search, URL shortening) that makes using Twitter really easy to use.

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P.S. I recently joined when a Twitter LINK was offered at my WordPress blog. If interested, just GOOGLE me at Sharliebel's blog. Have several people following me and I'm following some of them. It takes a while to learn all the tricks of the trade. I understand that, as someone said earlier, Twitter is not for everyone and most people don't stay long. I'll try it for a while and see what happens.

~Sharlet

It sounds confusing to me and like it's a lot of work.

I joined some months ago but did nothing. I will check out what Sharle has recommended and report back. Thanks Sharle for taking the time to write all the explanations. So they have a Tweetdeck LOL

Sharle - can I take your mini- lecture on how to Twitter across to a meeting?