I've had an interesting time on Twitter. I was invited to the first Twitter book launch (held in a specially organized Twitter chat room) for "Mrs Fry's Diary" - what a fabulous night that was! As I recall, I consumed plenty of wine during the event so Heaven knows what my tweets were like come early morning!

I also tweeted out reports of Cyclone Yasi as it bore down on us in Feb 2011. When Yasi cut off our power, I sent further reports via SMS to a friend in Sydney who relayed them to the Twitterverse. It was an extraordinary experience and being able to share it with others countered the scariness of it all.

I also wrote a blog on how Twitter's character limit helped me to refine my own writing. Okay, I may have slipped a bit in this department, given my longish comments of late!

I use Twitter only occasionally these days because, as you observed, it swallows up time in great gulps and is rarely worthy of the hours devoted to it.

As for hashtags - make up your own. Your followers will quickly figure it out and spread it about. Be unique!

I don't know about Supernatural ... I know I hate Twitter, though. :)

Which?? #6 or #3??

You would love SUPERNATURAL.. It's an awesome show that's been on for almost a decade..

One of the most memorable lines:

"Joe The Plumber's a douche"
-Dean Winchester

:D

Michale

:D

Michale

"The problem with born-again Christians is that they are a bigger pain in the ass the second time around"
-Unknown

#p2 actually stands for Progressives 2.0

Its a pretty good catchall for your stuff.

If you're covering an event, hashtags are a good way to post things about that even. For example #nn2014 for Netroots Nation 2014.

Or if you're talking about a specific person or topic sometimes I'll include a hashtag. Example: #JohnKasich. Though you can also tweet to John Kasich: @JohnKasich.

If there is a really trendy topic which you are writing about you may also want to do a quick search to see if there's a common hashtag being used. Example: #bridgeghazi or #bridgegate

I'm a bit new to this whole tweeting thing myself so interested in what others have to say. So far, this is the sum total of my knowledge.

-David

An episode of SUPERNATURAL had Sam and Dean Winchester being transported to an alternate reality where their lives was a TV show called SUPERNATURAL.

"I mean, seriously. Why would anyone watch a show about our lives"
"Well, according to that reporter, not many people do."

Anyways, Misha Collins (the actor who plays the angel, Castiel) is a known twitter junkie who calls his followers "Mishamigos"...

During the episode, Collins twittered people regarding the goings on on the set.

What's funny is, at the exact moment the episode aired and Collins was twitting people on the show, his twits were actually sent out in real life..

I thought that was kind of kewl.. :D

Michale

Perish the thought!

The third article I wrote (trolling for followers, link is above) I wrote all in 140-character paragraphs. Pretty awkward!

-CW

You didn't try to post this piece on Twitter, did you?

Heh. Sorry, I couldn't resist. Hehehehehehehe ...

Seriously, and just for the record, I'm all for Twitter feeds and tweets and hashtags and such ... just please don't ever ask us to open a twitter account to retain commenting privileges here, okay!?

:-)