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Having fun retweeting
Vanya Damyanova February 17th, 2010
I found that mostly when I am just checking my Twitter and do not have anything special to say I have real fun reading other people’s thoughts and retweet them.
I don’t know if that is annoying to some of my followers, but I do it almost without thinking. Here I see an interesting link, there I see a funny comment and another tweet has a beautiful pic — retweet, retweet, retweet.
I’m using Twitter for nearly a year and a half now and have noticed that everyone is using it differently. Some people hang at the trending topic sections, others just chat with their friends, others talk business and others tweet about their life. There are no rules to using Twitter. No that there are any rules to using other social media networks but I’ve noticed that on Facebook or Youtube people end up doing the same things more often than people on Twitter.
I think that may be because Twitter allows more freedom in terms of exchanging content. At first glance the 140 character limit for the tweets may seem insufficient for a really effective information transfer, but the truth is that within those limits you can share everything — music, video, articles, blog post ect., you just have to provide a link.
Youtube is strictly video and friendships there are limited to comments and video responses. It is more a TV station than anything else.
Facebook added some flavour by introducing the games — “Everybody plays Mafia Wars and Farmville”, just no me
You can chat with friends if you want and post videos or links to your wall, but a real exchange of thoughts and content does not really happen. I think Facebook’s structure is made for just showing and not knowing.
I do think tweets can be much more informative than posts or comments on FB. Although I do admit that FB and especially YouTube can be much more entertaining at times ![]()
Well, I was just wondering if someone has wrote a guide on how to use Twitter. It would be interesting to read. I personally don’t have a clue. Sometimes I can tweet all day, I always tweet when I travel, I twitpic most of the interesting things I’ve caught on the camera of my phone, but sometimes I just retweet like crazy…
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On the contrary – we do love your retweets! As for twitter-guides, there are plenty of guides and if you have money problems, I suggest you write your own. Like you said – there are a lot of ways to use twitter and many people wonder, so they google “twitter for dummies” or something like that and buy
So go ahead – I know you can write an awesome guide. And you have your first buyer right here!