Sunday, November 28, 2010
Practicum-4
I participated in my first 'tweeting conversation' on Twitter recently. I wasn't exactly sure how or when to use the @replies on Twitter but I had seen them used by many of the people I am following. But then, one of my friends who is following me replied to one of my Tweets almost immediately and we had a conversation back and forth. I really enjoyed having a conversation using the @replies and it made me feel more connected to Twitter and more like a contributing member of the community. Thus far I haven't really felt much of the community aspect of Twitter but when my friend and I were tweeting back and forth I knew she was online accessing Twitter at the same time and we were using the site to communicate. Using the @replies on Twitter really helps to make users feel as though they are participating in a community. I'm excited to keep experiencing with this aspect of the site!
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I think that the @replies are a large part of what makes people tweet. I know many people use twitter only to follow other people and do not personally tweet but I think that when people start, and they get responses from people it encourages them to continue putting their thoughts out there. I know that anytime someone tweets @ me or RT's what I've said I instantly feel a connection with them and I feel like what I said was worthy of being tweeted in the first place.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Cara. I have a Twitter account myself, and use it primarily to follow news sources, celebrities, and other media outlets. I do also follow a number of my friends, and it's fun to receive @replies and also to send them. I've found that a lot of people I know use Twitter as a place to communicate with their friends in an alternative way, varying slightly from a phone call, a text message, or a Facebook wall-post because of their limited space and high visibility.
ReplyDeleteI have to agree with Cara and Julia, the @replies are huge in the Twitter experience.
ReplyDeleteA lot of people out there, myself included, tweet things with the simple goal of sharing my thoughts with others. But a lot of the time, it feels like you're tweeting into a void - there's no kickback.
That's the beauty of an @reply, it just shows that people actually read what you said, and sometimes that's gratifying.
That's cool that there is that sense of community when doing the @replies. I don't have Twitter, but when tweets come up on my Facebook newsfeed I sometimes read them and I feel like sometimes it's hard to discern what people are saying with all the short hand lingo in order to fit on one tweet. I thought that was what the @replies were for...
ReplyDeleteI'm on a blog and I know the feeling of being disconnected from others. You can see that people are looking at your page but when there's no comments it kind of feels like you're just posting some random thing out in cyberspace.