Twitter

[Bloch]

It's pretty embarrassing but how do you use Twitter?


For example, when the forum was down I went on twitter.  I do follow @eevblog and were unable to see some who had written to Dave!


When I later in the day I tried to search the @eevblog on twitter and could see that we were many who had sent a message to Dave   What I mean is that if I had not sent a message if I had seen that Dave had been told about the problem already.


What is it that I'm doing wrong on twitter? For example, is google+ much more intuitive for me.

edit @eevforum to @eevblog
Thank you Stonent

[Stonent]

EEVblog

[Bloch]

EEVblog

I edit @eevforum to @eevblog
Thank you Stonent

[Bloch]

There are all the messages now Then i did the search yesterday there was more than 10 with more or less the same messag >> forum down


Now i cant find a single one !!!! Other than the one Dave did write himself 

[SeanB]

Twitter tends to expire older tweets and has no real search that is long term. Good and bad points, but it works well as a short breaking message service and as a very good distribution channel and you can control who you send to along with who can send to you.

[Bloch]

Twitter tends to expire older tweets and has no real search that is long term.

So if Dave did not check his twitter example say 24 hours he did not see the mesage from me ?.


LOL sorry but i have a hard time to see how others find it so useful.... there mustbe something i do wrong ?

[codeboy2k]

I don't think twitter expires 1 day old tweets though

I've been able to see postings in my twitter feed from over a week ago...
I can do a search and find stuff that is weeks old...

I wasn't one who posted about it being down, but searching @eevblog I also cannot find any single tweet about the site down

[rant]
Lots of tweets '@eevblog user xxxxxx liked a video on youtube' and '@eevblog user xxx favorited a video on youtube' - where does that come from?  Although I understand as a content producer that helps bring viewers and thus revenue, but it's also one reason why I hate social networking.. I don't need to post to the world whenever I favorite a cat video, or like something that might not be aligned with another person's viewing tastes... yet we are often tricked and/or misled into posting these things.. i.e. just signing into a third party website using the convenient "log in with Facebook" or "log in with twitter" often ends up giving implicit permission for the website to impersonate you and post to Twitter or write on your Facebook wall about everything you do on their site.  And often you don't know you are doing this until its too late... and you have to hunt hard to find out how to opt out of this tactic.

I don't use Facebook.  I do use twitter, as a convenient way to keep on top of stuff I am interested in, but I post very little.
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[SeanB]

Twitter tends to the immediate rather than store and forward. It is not an email substitute. Major advantage is the response is immediate and you can communicate in short clear sentences.

[Stonent]

EEVblog

I edit @eevforum to @eevblog
Thank you Stonent

Ok I was thinking the reason you couldn't find it was because you searched the wrong name.