Jason English
A Big Day for Us on Twitter
by Jason English - August 7, 2009 - 12:22 PM

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It’s a weird world we’re living in. Can’t believe I’m typing the following sentence: Thanks to Alyssa Milano & John Green for talking us up on Twitter!

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Comments (9)

  1. that’s awesome! me thinks we need a post to explain the amazing concept of FOLLOWFRIDAY to the uninformed.

    posted by David K. Israel on 8-7-2009 at 12:45 pm

  2. Our strategy of World Domination Via Twitter is well underway. Exxxxxcellent.

    posted by Chris Higgins on 8-7-2009 at 1:09 pm

  3. I agree with David. Some of the concepts are quite new to me, and the Twitter Help pages aren’t what i would call user friendly.

    posted by Steven on 8-7-2009 at 1:28 pm

  4. Awesome! I do be lovin’ me some A. Milano!

    posted by moochie6us on 8-7-2009 at 1:53 pm

  5. Congratulations. Mental Floss certainly has a great following.

    posted by Monica on 8-7-2009 at 2:24 pm

  6. Wonderful! Now who the heck is John Green? And who can give me a 1-minute Twitter lesson?

    posted by MrsPurrbottom on 8-8-2009 at 2:10 pm

  7. I can give you a 30 second one, MrsPurrbottom:

    Go to http://www.twitter.com, create an account, add a mobile phone number. They’ll send you a text message to verify your phone information that you need to reply to.

    Once you do that, you can start receiving tweets via text message by searching for people or organizations to follow. Or you can view them on your homepage at any time like a newsfeed.

    If you want to reply to someone @, or if you want to tweet about a trend, use the # sign before the name.

    Tweets are limited to 120 characters in length, including spaces.

    Hope that answered your basic questions!

    posted by Martin on 8-8-2009 at 9:47 pm

  8. John Green is an author and one half of the Vlogbrothers, who became quite popular on YouTube during 2007 and beyond. He and his brother Hank, along with their fans, are now collectively known as Nerdfighters, and the Nerdfigher community can be found at http://nerdfighters.ning.com

    posted by Ally on 8-9-2009 at 1:46 am

  9. Thank you Ally and Martin! Yes, the Tweeter lesson is great and I understand who JG is now. I really don’t live in a cave! But, need the simple things in life explained sometimes.
    Thanks again!
    Mrs. Purrbottom

    posted by MrsPurrbottom on 8-9-2009 at 10:49 pm

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