Once you understand that there's nothing to understand about twitter...you're set! You can @mention your friends and celebrities, and they will read your message [or with celebrities, they can, if they want to, read your message]. And you can follow people from all walks of life, and if they have that little blue tick sign next to their name - it is really them.
I'm following loads of people, lots of friends, and lots of celebrities. Lots barely tweet at all, some tweet all the time - such as Justin Bieber, LeAnn Rimes and Jerry Bruckheimer.
And the other thing about twitter...if you can follow them as a user...people can follow you.
Again, lots of my friends have joined twitter and I follow them, and they have kindly followed me. But, some famous names follow me.
Jon Acuff - author of 'Stuff Christians Like' - approx 55,000 followers.
Jack Ingram - country singer - approx 29,000 followers.
Lady Antebellum - country group, their song 'Need You Now' performed by Glee. Approx 343,000 followers.
Justin Bieber - pop singing sensation. Approx 9,600,000 followers.
These all have those little verified blue ticks, which means it is them. Exciting times.
I have had a lot of @ mentions, but from friends when in conversation with them. However, from celebrities - it tends to be a bit of a rarer occasion.
I had @mentioned LeAnn Rimes, saying I was a big fan etc etc etc. And she @mentioned me back with the memorable...
'@StephParsonsUK Thx babe'
Oh my word! She replied to my tweet! Best day ever. Genuinely, I loved this tweet.
Now, moving onto the realm of retweets, also known colloquially as an RT. Now, I've written [as of this very second] 897 tweets. And never really paid attention to RTs...until very recently.
I got a RT in January about a tweet I had written from the Oscars...which I found surprising and nice.
Then I delved in the realm of celebrities, will celebrities RT you? They can do, yes. I tweeted the actor Gary Sinise [Lt Dan in Forrest Gump, Mac Taylor in CSI:NY] and told him my grandad was a Royal Marine Commando [Gary Sinise used to be in the Marines, and holds those who are Marines and those who have previously been Marines in very high respect], I also told him that my grandad trained US Marines. My grandad loves CSI:NY, and always wears his Royal Marine cap when Mac Taylor comes on...so I told him all this. And Gary Sinise retweeted it. This was a good day.
In April, I got a random RT from 'coffeybot'. Bit random, though maybe they found it funny. But this is when the RT thing started to kick in.
Last week, I was looking at the top trends, and some comments made in them. They were regarding Margaret Thatcher, and some were disgusting. So I tweeted, not at individuals, but as a general statement. And people did RT. Given, some people @mentioned abuse at me, but when you delve into the Thatcher debate, you know what's coming.
Then suddenly, this past week, a tweet [which was not aimed at anyone in particular, and had no mention of a top trend] was RTed. It regarded LA Galaxy's stadium - someone somehow found it, and retweeted it! This felt good! Then I saw on top trends something about Girls Aloud reuniting - I didn't know they'd even broken up, so tweeted. And what do you know? Someone RTed. THIS IS WAY TO DO IT! Tweet about a top trend! I've suddenly got an RT addiction, I love getting RTed.
Tonight, Eurovision was trending! So I tweeted about Graham Norton and Terry Wogan - instant RT from someone! Then I saw Borat top trending - wrote a tweet about him - BOOM! Instant RT from someone else! Addicted to Twitter ReTweets - though, this has all stemmed from the fact that I finished all my uni work and exams about two weeks ago, and have had nothing to do, so therefore I've been sat around doing not much. RTs have just shown that people appreciate my comments and opinions about things, and also have shown that I really need to get out more.
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