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To: Nachum

I need to get more familiar with Twitter.

It seems to me that in order to gain any traction with an idea or concept, you need to have a base of followers that can push those ideas to a level that will then gain a much wider audience.

Can you point me to the source or group that is advancing this form of ridicule ?


13 posted on 04/29/2013 2:30:49 PM PDT by Zeneta (No eternal reward will forgive us now for wasting the dawn.)
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To: Zeneta

Just go to the Twitter main site and type #ObamaSongTitles in the search field. The page will come up.

I’ve grown fond of Twitter. Before I used to hate it. The best folks on Twitter are #tcot (True Conservatives on Twitter). :-)


14 posted on 04/29/2013 2:40:26 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (Great vid by ShorelineMike! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOZjJk6nbD4&feature=plcp)
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To: Zeneta

To me, twitter is mostly a source of information. I rarely use the actual twitter web pages, and I don’t send out tweets much anymore. One can only search for one single topic at a time there. I have use tweetdeck for windows for close to three years now. Just google it. I highly recommend it. Twitter actually owns it now. With this tool one can have multiple search columns such as News, #tcot -#p2, Freerepublic, #emptyChair, just to name a few of about 30 searches or groups I have. Most trending political topics such as this #ObamaSongTitles will show up in the #tcot feed. Just click on a #hastag in one of the posts and a new search column will open up with that filter set. #tcot is “Top Conservatives on Twitter”. I have noticed that hot news typically appears on twitter within minutes. It can be a good way to keep on top of events, as well as find interesting topics and articles. In the #tcot search I show above, ‘#tcot -#p2’ will show posts with #tcot tag but not those that also have #p2 tag, which is the major liberal channel tag, so it cuts down on the Lib noise a bit.

One can create groups of users in twitter. So grouping all of the major news org twitter accounts into one group, you get one single column of headlines scrolling by. Over time I had identified many of the good conservative information sources and put them into a single group I call ‘Conservative Union Of Souls”. If here any are interested, I can publish that list so you could subscribe into it. Just message @ri4dc.

You don’t need to have a large following on twitter to tap in to its usefulness. You just need to know how to search for the feeds that interest you. Tweetdeck helps to organize these searches with ease over the single threaded web page searches. What you end up with is a console of scrolling news and information, and some funny and interesting stuff flows from it. Just one more available tool.


15 posted on 04/29/2013 4:00:13 PM PDT by ri4dc (Cut your cable. You'll need the extra dough later on. 'This war is lost!' The worst is yet to come.)
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