Twitter... so I joined up and created and account

[nadinbrzezinski]

still working on how it works but here is the link

http://twitter.com/#replies

This will be for our politics, and all you need is to join up. Will try to set a specific twitt stream. Once I got it, well folks, I will even get the damn client for the Iphone

I have said for years that this is an important technology, well time to get MORE serious about it

And here is MY twitt page

[Mari333]

1. woohoo Im on board nt

[nadinbrzezinski]

2. Join up and follow me

use the same adress. I am trying to get the damn thing to accept other people's posts

If not, create your own account and I will follow you.

Aka we can create some pressure I think.

It works. Next item... the twitt client for the I-Phone. Mind you I will use it also for some mundane stuff such as getting my books known but hey.

[Arctic Dave]

3. LOL. My wife got me set up last night.

I'm signed up as my user name here but instead of a space, use an underscore(?).
Arctic_Dave
I'll will set up to follow you. :) (Meant in the most non-stalkerish way) :D

My account
http://twitter.com/Arctic_Dave

[nadinbrzezinski]

5. I will have to find out how to add you to my list

in the most NON stalkish way of course.

[Duer 157099]

12. Should we use "protected" status?

I went to your profile and it's protected. I wonder if I should do that too?

[nadinbrzezinski]

17. Ok how did you find the profile? Search is not working

[Duer 157099]

20. Deconstruct the URL

http://twitter.com/(insert user name here)

http://twitter.com/Duer157099

or yours would be:

http://twitter.com/nadinbrzezinski

[Arctic Dave]

21. I do, just so I don't get all the "spam". That way

you get to choose who follows you.

[nadinbrzezinski]

24. Well I found it, thaks to Duer... but cannot follow

:-)

And I get the spam, I expect it

[northofdenali]

52. Dave, just sent request to "follow"

Same name as the one here, and I'm in Fairbanks!

[Arctic Dave]

67. Will get you on board as soon as I'm at my coputer. :)

[Mari333]

4. heres my account

http://twitter.com/maritb333

[flamingdem]

10. So I sent you a twitter but don't see it on your twitter page

I'm not sure how this works.. can someone explain how we can see all of our Twitter posts in one place?

[nadinbrzezinski]

13. I don't think we can, we will have to set pages

and follow each other... I am still figuring the system myself

Oh and got the client for the I-Phone, err IPOD my phone died so I wish it was an I-Phone

[Duer 157099]

14. Thank god I'm finally in the company of people as clueless as myself!

A few days ago I posted a Twitter thread and a whole bunch of people who knew what they were doing showed up, lol

I feel better in this thread

[flamingdem]

15. great to hear that since I am perplexed

and I'm not a youngster with a malleable twitterized brain !

[wildeyed]

55. 'k, I am following you now. n/t

[ejpoeta]

6. i joined up awhile ago to send messages to rick sanchez. i don't quite understand it

and i never go there. i do like how, who was it?? was talking about how iran is using twitter to mobilize, and we use twitter for stupid stuff.

[nadinbrzezinski]

11. Why I will use it to both promote myself

and do stupid stuff like post contact info for congress

[aquart]

7. Once upon a time, some 10-yr-olds showed me how to turn on a pc.

They were delighted at their superior knowledge. I decided that was the last time a ten-year-old would ever know more than I did.

Welcome to Twitter. I've spent five days worrying about one boy who was twittering on his Tehran dorm roof with his laptop. Since then one of his friends has been killed, another wounded and arrested in hospital, and he is an internationally-known outlaw just for writing one-sentence messages of what he saw.

[ejpoeta]

16. yeah, that's why the republican's struggle is exactly the same as the people of iran.

like they are friggin risking their lives to spout their bs. the worst that could possibly happen is they lose their cushy job. and go get another cushy job for one of their sponsors..

[Duer 157099]

8. I'm in!

http://twitter.com/Duer157099

but still really trying to figure out the best way to use it, besides just watching what everyone else is posting

[nadinbrzezinski]

19. Well I will start posting contact info, and things like that

use it for political goals

Who knows? Perhaps if enough do it we will reach some kind of critical mass.

We know them freeps are spamming the WH.

[Duer 157099]

9. btw, that link is wrong

I think that's the generic link for you to post to

but to create like a DU group or something, it should be like #DU ... right?

[flamingdem]

18. Can that exist as a page on Twitter?

We need a central page for this to work..

[Duer 157099]

27. it's not a page per se

it's a "search"

So, every message sent must contain the "key" search term that we agree upon, I posted below a little more explanation (which I hope is correct, or mostly so)

[nadinbrzezinski]

25. I think so, but we should be able to post and I don't think we can

that is the problem.

[krispos42]

22. I did, too...

...before some idiot decided to steal it. All Ineed is some freeper stealing it and making up some fantasy life for me! :-)

[Duer 157099]

23. OK, here's my understanding based on 2-3 days experience

First, we need to establish a "phrase" that we use in every message so that it gets "picked up" (for example, #iranelections is the one where there's a lot of iran traffic -- if you look at the messages in that... ? stream? you see each one includes "#iranelections" in the messages, as well as perhaps others (eg, #Tehran).

So, we need something short, unique and memorable, and not being used.

I think.

Anyone?

[nadinbrzezinski]

26. #single payer

Easy

[Duer 157099]

28. ok, let's try it out....

but as one word... I'll go try, see what happens...

[nadinbrzezinski]

30. It works... now we just need to add that moniker to every tweet.

also that will distinguish them from my self promotion or yours

[flamingdem]

32. How about Demand Single Payer

or Healthcarereform

[Duer 157099]

34. Sure, whatever

here's the thing, most common phrases are already in use, but that's fine, it will just go there

If we wanted any DU specific type "chat" thing, we could preface the phrase with DU?

it just depends on the intent, whether wide exposure vs. du specific - which is what we have du for, lol

but, maybe until we get our "twitter legs" ?

[nadinbrzezinski]

36. Will this is as wide as I can make it

that is what we should look for

[flamingdem]

40. Anything with DU would be good

as an identifier and to let people know about DU.

[Duer 157099]

29. already exists n/t

[Duer 157099]

31. #demund - this one is clean and works

So, in the text of your message, just be sure to include #demund and all messages will go to that "place"

Use the search box to the right of the screen, put in #demund and it will take you there

[flamingdem]

33. Someone just told me it should contain relevant key words

Because "search" on Twitter has exploded and people are using it like Google to connect.

Check out how it functions for key words here:
http://search.twitter.com/

[nadinbrzezinski]

35. Now I will have to remember it tomorrow

thanks....

Now if more and more folks do this, and we can reach some kind of mass.

[Duer 157099]

37. On your "home" page, you will see all the posts of people you are following

so you will see what "key words" they are using, then use those in the small search box to the right to see all the posts that use that phrase

Method will depend on purpose

[nadinbrzezinski]

38. search singlepayer. The tweet is quite extensive already

other folks were thinking the same thing

[glowing]

39. Yes, but to keep DU relevant and single payer relevant if it applies do both

#demund (this means DU); and do #singlepayer.

so I wrote an entry that looks like this:

single payer is what we need!!!! insurance co's and pharma GO TO HELL!!#demund #single payer #baucusfail

See, singlepayer.. demund.. and Baucusfail (lol).

[nadinbrzezinski]

42. Yeah I found them, Found some interesting things

the system is sleek. Now if we can get millions to ahem do this.. plus much more, we MIGHT get what we want

[Double T]

41. All signed up but will need to learn to navigate the twitter site

[glowing]

44. type #demund into your search box.

it will take you to entries already posted. Then click over a person's avatar and when the box opens up you can add the person to your follow section. Otherwise, post everything pertaining to du activity to #demund. If you want people to see it who post to #singlepayer, then do both.. #demund#singlepayer.

If you want to give info on a date of an activity in a region.. do #demund #singlepayer #(name of city/ town location). This would keep things organized in actions.

[Duer 157099]

46. And then click on "Save this search" so it shows up in your list on the right

This #demund is useful temporarily just while we all (du novice twitterers) get used to the system. Cuz it will only go to us, or anyone who decides to search for that term.

So yeah, add other search terms as you describe

[Arctic Dave]

43. K&R

[sellitman]

45. Been there a while.

If you haven't barfed enough with my DU posts then you deserve my Twitter account name

http://twitter.com/sellitman

[glowing]

47. you know what's kind of neat:

if you #demund #singlepayer.. it almost looks like demand single payer.. even though demund is abrev. for democratic underground... anyway... I think we need to get this rec to front page so all can see it. let's get this done.. and any of our congress critters that tweet.. we need to get them to see what we are up to.

[flamingdem]

48. Oh.. I understand demund

I'm slooow tonight. I like that one. I thought it was a persons name, doy.

[glowing]

49. took me a second at first... but it makes sense. we know who we are, but

can add stuff to other searches by adding #singlepayer.. if we don't like something baucus does.. we need to twitter bomb... that way it comes up on top searches.. we'd have to do something like #demund #singlepayer #baucusfail if he does something again like have people arrested or say something really stupid. the reason #iranelection comes up so much is because that's the main tweet call that people are using in iran to stay connected.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

50. Welcome! I joined a couple of days ago. My Twitter

http://twitter.com/OmmmSweetOmmm :hi:

[AsahinaKimi]

51. I don't even have..

Myspace, Facebook, or Friendster as yet, and now there is Twitter..
I can't keep up! *cries*

[nadinbrzezinski]

54. I gave up on trying to keep up

though I do have a facebook account that is mostly dead. Found the tone there rather... childish.

SHOULD...KEEP... IT... UP for marketing, but hell can't stand the place

[northofdenali]

53. When you figure it out (I haven't, yet)

Try locating me under my DU name! I'd love to "follow"!

[madeline_con]

57. I found you, pushed the follow button, but it says "pending"

:shrug:

[northofdenali]

58. Yeah, they email you and you get to "accept" or "deny"

Will check email in a bit!

OK, done - but I'll tell ya, my stuff isn't the good shit like the Hoekstra stuff! Mostly day-to-day hopes and wishes (my daughter, who is far away, checks it out too).

[nadinbrzezinski]

66. Just sent you a request

[madeline_con]

56. I'm on board.

http://twitter.com/Ybtisam

[Dappleganger]

59. Feel fee to follow me too...

http://twitter.com/Basye

That's my old digger/reddit name. Take a look at some of my followers, there's some heavy-hitters in there who RT to thousands.
I just don't have time to mess with it as before, but maybe in another 6 months I'll pick it back up.

Remember with twitt, you need to give some RT love in order to receive. :)

[madeline_con]

62. I follow StopAhmadi ans RiggedIranElect

[rainbow4321]

63. Have a question...I've tried to post stuff in iranelection

but I don't know if I am doing it right cuz I never actually see my post. I know the screens/entries move QUICK but even going back to the previous page I don't see my entry (I'm writing it in that update box) Am I misunderstanding how to post a message...you put a hashmark and, in this case, iranelection (together) in the message, also.

I'm sooo confused.

[madeline_con]

60. Follow IranRiggedElect

http://twitter.com/IranRiggedElect

[Canuckistanian]

61. I signed up, too

Still don't know how to use the damn thing.

https://twitter.com/Canuckistani_

[DemReadingDU]

64. I signed up, but using a different name

I decided to follow CNNBRK, until I get the hang of this

[DemReadingDU]

65. How do I get rid of people following me?

Truly, I have nothing of interest that anyone would need to know about me that quickly (except for my family)

edit: I think I figured it out, just block them


:P

[GreenEyedLefty]

72. Half of Twitter is people following you. It's not that big of a deal.

I have hundreds of followers and follow most of them back (and then some). The ones I really don't like, I remove.

http://www.twitter.com/CLKcreative

[BlooInBloo]

68. Um, you should learn how twitter works, before spreading misinformation about it.

[holiday]

69. I am holiday07

you can follow me

[tabbycat31]

70. I just joined

and still trying to figure this thing out. www.twitter.com/tabbycat331 if anyone wants to follow me.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

71. Kick!

[ellie]

73. There was a thread

on Wonkette about setting your location on Twitter to Tehran and your time to +3.30 GMT to thwart the search for Twitter users inside the country. The feeling was the system would be too overwhelmed to track everyone down.