Dana's+Twitter

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**February 23, 2010 - Increasing Traffic**
Over the past few weeks, I have continued to tweet regularly. I've found quite a few new celebrities and news aggregators to follow, and I'm finding myself more and more addicted to checking Twitter. I've added text alerts for a few of my friends, and I've found this helps me have more exchanges back and forth with them. I've also realized that there is a limit on how often it is appropriate to tweet, because if people happen to be getting these text alerts, it is rather annoying to receive 15-20 an hour, or in the middle of the night for that matter.

I've picked up about 20 followers since I started this project, only two of which I've actually met. My total follower count is now at 120. Most are from the UK, which isn't really surprising seeing as the content of a majority of my tweets is about British music and television. I also gathered a few from Ireland after I was retweeted by a tourist agency from Galway.



** February 8, 2010 - How I Utilize Twitter **
Examples of the types of tweets and possible uses of the site.

A Basic Tweet:

A Re-tweet: You can re-post things that others have tweeted and the post will appear on your feed. This particular retweet is a minor British celebrity (Ollie Barbieri that plays J.J. on the television show, //Skins//) tweeting the link to a blog he enjoyed. I re-tweeted it to share with my followers because I agreed that it was funny.

An @tweet: This is twitter's way of directing a tweet at a particular user. You can use it to respond to them, mention them within a tweet, or direct something at them. This particular example was directed at a friend. It proved particularly helpful, because she receives twitter updates from me on her phone, so I was able to effectively use it as a form of text message when my phone was unavailable.

A photo tweet: This tweet uses a third party photo service to post a link to a photo, as well as comment on the photo (my favorite British frontman, with a newly grown beard). The page that this links to is below:

February 7, 2010 - Introduction and Goals
I joined Twitter a little less than a year ago, and in that time I have picked up over 100 followers and tweeted just under 500 times. As a part of this project I plan to increase my activity on the site, as well as discover new possibilities of the technology.

I plan to do this by: 1. Following more people. Since few of my friends have Twitter accounts, and those that do I am already following, most of the people I am adding are either news aggregates or celebrities. 2. Create Twitter lists. Since I am following more people, there is more traffic on my twitter feed, to help organize this I will be creating lists for my real life friends, UK friends, celebrities/musicians, and news services. 3. Tweet more. I would like to increase the frequency, and subject matter of my tweets. 4. Look into third party programs that can make the Twitter experience richer.

I will outline my work towards reaching these goals here.