Is Twitter incredibly hard to use, or is it just me? HELP!
SapphicGrrl
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I've tried a couple of times to use Twitter, and it just doesn't seem to work for me (and I kind of don't even know what's going on?!). My OH has tried to help me, but he just gets bored with my uselessness.
These are my biggest problems:-
- my OH and I follow each other - yet when I tweet him, it doesn't appear on his page
- when I tweet someone I'm following, it doesn't appear on their page either.
I'm sure I'm doing it right (I looked in Twitter Help to make sure), and I've googled my problem - but all I get are webpages so technical that you need a PhD to understand them (even the ones that say they're for idiots!). Nobody ever tweets me back (apart from my OH), and I assume this is because they can't see my tweets.
Can anyone help me? Or do I just give up again and go back to Facebook? (I mean - how hard can it BE?!) Twitter just seems too difficult and frustrating - I'm clearly not clever enough to use it.........
PS. The height of irony - I tweeted my problem to Twitter Support, but because it's not on their page and they can't see it, they haven't replied.......
These are my biggest problems:-
- my OH and I follow each other - yet when I tweet him, it doesn't appear on his page
- when I tweet someone I'm following, it doesn't appear on their page either.
I'm sure I'm doing it right (I looked in Twitter Help to make sure), and I've googled my problem - but all I get are webpages so technical that you need a PhD to understand them (even the ones that say they're for idiots!). Nobody ever tweets me back (apart from my OH), and I assume this is because they can't see my tweets.
Can anyone help me? Or do I just give up again and go back to Facebook? (I mean - how hard can it BE?!) Twitter just seems too difficult and frustrating - I'm clearly not clever enough to use it.........
PS. The height of irony - I tweeted my problem to Twitter Support, but because it's not on their page and they can't see it, they haven't replied.......
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I've sent a couple of tweets but can't seem to get the hang of reading a series of linked ones........I'm always expecting to see a thread
And I don't like the way it gone like Facebook with 'advert tweets' .........and Re-Tweets.......I just want to see tweets from the person I'm following not a hundred other people who just happened to have tweeted them as well
I only follow Eurosport now and only read it to check on schedule changes to the TV listings.......
(Very funny, Sky_Guy! ;-))
If you sent a tweet to them, they got it. You can see tweets you sent to others on your 'page'. If they send you a tweet back you can see it in 'notifications'.
Twitter isn't Facebook though, it's more of a broadcast platform, not something that was designed for 'messaging' in the strictest sense.
Why would you think that though?
But anyway, you can see tweets you sent on YOUR page, because YOU sent them
The person you tweeted will see your tweet to them in their notifications
You are able to see the actions they take on their twitter page. If they favourite something, retweet or reply it will show up.
If you tweet something to someone and get their name right they will see it. You can search @theirusername but type it and press enter instead of clicking on their name and as long as their privacy settings aren't too tight it will show stuff tweeted directly to them.
What I still don't get is why my OH doesn't seem to get my tweets - could this be because he gets 100s a day, and they just get lost? (Unlike FB, it seems that you don't go back and read all your day's posts - Twitter seems to be about what you're looking at at the time, rather than the last 24 hours.)
Schmiznurf - thanks for that searching tip, I'll try it. Thanks to both of you for your tips, but what this seems to be showing me is that my tweets are so appallingly tedious, that nobody wants to reply to them!
As long as you are getting his twitter name correct it would notify him about it.
The only tweets that could get lost in the shuffle are general ones that get lost in the many other tweets from people your followers follow.
It took me a very long time to get the hang of Twitter. I tried around 6 years ago, gave up because it seemed too confusing and started up again 2 years ago. It's only within the last year that I've 'mastered' it - and now I'd be lost without it.
I can understand the confusion, by the way the conversation is laid out - I get similarly frustrated on YouTube and their weird lay-out of replies.
If you send a tweet, you should get a message showing saying that it's been sent, if not go to look at your own tweets sent, it should be there.
Experiment with all the options you have, Actions, Trends etc,
And don't give up that you might not be getting many tweets, you need to follow people when you see a tweet you like, or comment on it, start a little conversation going. They often follow back. I had about 20 people on my list for years, now it's getting on for 250, which is enough for me, because they are all people I like knowing.
Stick with it!
I've decided I must be rather old-fashioned (although I'm an IT person!). I know regular tweeters who are complete morons, so I should be able to do it?
You can! I quite like the challenge of having to condense my opinion into 140 characters.
Ah, sorry! That's what they're called on my iPad, which I've got used to using until my new PC is set up - where they are probably called something else - Notifications, more likely. Whatever they are called on gour device, just have a good look at them, play around and see what they do.
Yes, you just add people! It's what makes Twitter work, so unless you get a real weirdo, no-one will complain. If they don't follow you, you can still enjoy their tweets - less than half of the people I follow, follow me back.
Go home Billy, you're drunk.
This should be in the 'it doesn't make sense in any forum' forum.
It can't be beaten for news, in my opinion.
It's also great for getting services to do their job, because companies don't like people to see that they're being incompetent. I recently had problems lasting over 2 weeks with my BT Broadband connection, sorted out within hours, via contact with them on Twitter.
would one get fulfilled from one being on the twitter, would it be justifiable for one