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Post by Tetrachloride on Sept 27, 2012 7:39:24 GMT -8
What are the shiny news sources on Twitter and more these days ?
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Post by artman1033 on Sept 27, 2012 8:07:17 GMT -8
I will start with the idea that a person has no concept of twitter. Start with stocktwits.com/symbol/AAPL " StockTwits® is a financial communications platform for the financial and investing community. The company was founded in 2008 by long-time investor Howard Lindzon. StockTwits created the $TICKER tag to enable and organize “streams” of information around stocks and markets across the web and social media. These streams provide new forms of insight, ideas and information that are used by investors, analysts, media and others as they research stocks and manage their investments. Today, more than 150,000 investors, market professionals and public companies share information and ideas about the market and individual stocks using StockTwits, producing streams that are viewed by an audience of over 40 million across the financial web and social media platforms." Twitter has recently decided to compete with Stocktwits. In the past if you tweeted the $AAPL "hashtag" with a tweet, the tweet would show up on Stocktwits and twitter. Now you would have to tweet in BOTH websites to link a tweet to everyone. More to follow. I will post about twitter to all as if you have never used it. Then it can be used as a primer for all. There might be ONE tidbit that I post that is useful to you. That could be enough for all the dribble that I post on the subject.
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Post by artman1033 on Sept 27, 2012 14:54:35 GMT -8
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Post by JDSoCal on Sept 27, 2012 15:35:06 GMT -8
What are the shiny news sources on Twitter and more these days ? I prefer just to watch the $AAPL Twitter Feed.
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Post by artman1033 on Sept 27, 2012 15:46:48 GMT -8
So you set up your twitter account. I use twitter as a news feed on my MacBook. I have the same account viewable on both Safari and Firefox. The same account is actually different on the two browsers. Twitter is faster than GOOGLE or anything else. I follow 299 different accounts. Most are NEWS sources. When I open twitter, I am flooded with current tweets from accounts I follow. If there is an important national sporting event happening, you can be sure @normmacdonald is tweeting about it. He will tweet 20-30 times an hour following Tiger or the current leader in a golf match. It is like Norm is sitting next to you, watching the game. Many news sources tweet their stories. I will click on the link to read that story on a new page. If there is nothing to interest me, I will glance on the trending topics in my area. I could click on any of those hashtags. OR, I could open SEARCH at the top of the page, type in a topic or name and see what pops up. This is the ideal way to find accounts to follow. Here is how I use twitter like a newspaper. I build lists. When the Twins are playing, I might have the Baseball list up. It is as if I am up in the press box watching the game with the sportswriters.
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Post by artman1033 on Oct 2, 2012 17:01:35 GMT -8
Thank you for your questions via PM. I will try to answer them as I find time. One question: How do you make lists? Let us make a list for Politics. We have a presidential debate on Wednesday, so this is timely. All of my twitter use is with a MacBook on Safari. Your twitter page may look different on a PC.
TYPE the word politics in the search bar. A drop down menu gives me the following choices: Fox News Politics @foxnewspolitics NYTimes Politics @nytimespolitics HuffPost Politics @huffpostpol NBC Politics @nbcpolitics Guardian politics @gdnpolitics YouTube Politics @youtubepolitics Most of the above are great for following tweets about politics. I could highlight one of the choices and my twitter page would open to that particular user's twitter page. For this exercise I will simply hit the return key after typing the word politics. A page of tweets about politics are now on my MacBook. At the top of the page are TOP PEOPLE for politics. The first one I see is Fox news Politics. I am given the choice to click the button to "follow" or I can click on the next box and a menu will drop down which will give me a choice to "add or remove from lists..." My own list of lists will appear. I can add Fox news politics to one or more of my current lists or create a new one called "politics". You can now continue to add users until you are happy with your list. It may take some time.... Some readers of this post are now screaming: I DON'T HAVE TIME FOR ALL OF THIS. ISN'T THERE AN EASIER WAY? YES! For events like a presidential debate, there will be #hash tags appearing on my MacBook trending list on the left hand side of my screen. One or two of them will be for the presidential debate. I don't know what it will be at this time. If I were to guess, it will probably be #presidentialdebate. If I simply click on that link, all of the tweets I now see will be about the presidential debate. On big events like #oscars, super bowls, Olympic opening ceremony, Olympic closing ceremony, the tweets can run about 120 or more different tweets per minute. That is more than I can read. But I get an idea about what is going on.
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Post by artman1033 on Oct 3, 2012 16:57:10 GMT -8
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Post by mbeauch on Oct 3, 2012 19:27:28 GMT -8
We gotta find you a hobby. ;D
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