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It’s the twitter time

Posted by Jen in random thoughts, trends on June 21st, 2009

twitterOne thing I have to admit is that I am not an active trend follower, which might not be good for a web designer. So when twitter has become a trend, I didn’t pay much attention to it, until one day I found it’s already everywhere that I can’t even avoid it any more… Yes, it IS everywhere, all TV news, celebrities, everyday enormously growing amount of random people, and even US governments, are all using twitter. It’s not just another social networking website, it is a phenomenon of the generation. It’s quick, short and full of information that you are interested in…. this is exactly what we are for.

Still I am one of millions of the twitter beginners, in the process of finding the value of it while already got addicted to it. Just found some small tricks of usage, and happy to share in here

1. Twitter is associated with many bookmarking website. When you submit a web page to their site, they let you post this site link to twitter meanwhile with just a button clicking.

2. hash (#) is an amazing feature of tagging the keywords. This tag will then be tracked by twitter (after you opt in and follow twitter.com/hashtags) and whenever you post with a tag word (word after #), it will show up as a real time post at http://www.hashtags.org

3. twitter has its simple HTML/JavaScript code that allows you to insert into your own website or other social network site to show your twitter’s updates on those sites.

Want to find out how amazing twitter is? Go experiencing yourself! :)

2 Responses to “It’s the twitter time”

  1. Jen says:

    Thanks, Mary!

  2. Mary says:

    Pretty nice post. I just stumbled upon your blog and wanted to say
    that I have really liked reading your posts. Anyway
    I’ll be subscribing to your feed and I hope you post again soon!

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