Over the past few days I have been trying to integrate my new blog with twitter. I also plan on shifting my blogging activities from ChrisFryer.com to Log My Blog.
The main problem with me twitterising my blog is that I don’t really understand twitter.
I had a number of questions about twitter that I couldn’t answer no matter how hard I tried searching for one on Google or Wikipedia. Nevertheless, I have managed to answer them.
Q: What is the point of twitter?
A: I guess it is another method of communication designed to make money for somebody without the users being aware of it. Some people have called a social networking site, kind of like Facebook without the book.
Q: Can you reply to your own tweet?
A: Seemingly not, but why not? It seems kind of strange that you cannot reply to your own tweet, after all in e-mail and text messages you can. It is probably a method of cutting down on spam.
Q: What is a retweet and how do you do it?
A: Contrary to popular opinion, a retweet is not a hotel for birds. It is when you re-post another person’s tweet on your own account, usually with the prefix RT, this is usually followed by a @ followed by the username of the person you are retweeting. This ends up looking like: twitter_user_1 RT @twitter_user_2 twitter sucks balls!
Q: How does a blog post know when someone is tweeting about it?
A: Usually (on a WordPress blog anyway) an easily installed plug-in takes care of finding the tweets for a particular blog post. Unless I was to interview a plug-in programmer or reverse engineer the plug-in myself I can’t answer this question. I would really love someone to answer this question for me in the comments.
Does anybody have twitter frustrations? I am looking forward to your questions and answers in the comments.