Friday, 24 January 2014
Tweet Said the Bird
Tweet said the bird. Retweet said the second and third birds. Soon there was a song of tweets and retweets and the birds were happy. So many ways to communicate - if only social media was simpler (in the sense that there are so many things to learn) and as easy as singing like a bird. Well, maybe that isn't as easy as it sounds either. I can neither whistle or sing that well. This week's assignment was both easy and a bit challenging. I already have a library twitter account and a personal one. So I went and applied some of the things I was asked to do which I knew about but have never done. I tweeted about our upcoming Family Literacy Day event with a hashtag. I would have done the @ but I didn't know who to send it to. I ran out of characters and went back to the YouTube to see what to do. It talks about the URL shorteners but I don't understand what to do to make my message shorter. So I shortened it myself. Now I would like to try Hootsuite. Will do that soon. Interesting lesson!
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I find it hard to stay within the 140 character limit, too. It is hard when you care about things like grammar. the site tinyurl.com is great for shortening links, but when you are trying to shorten your actual tweets there isn't much to be done besides just saying less. Sometimes you can break your thoughts up into multiple tweets if it makes sense to do so.
ReplyDeleteYeah, that makes sense. Afterall it was an URL shortener, not a Tweet shortener. I'll have to try that URL shortener sometime.
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