Things 4, 5 and 6

So when I saw that week two was about Twitter, I was apprehensive. I understand how it can be useful, and I even read the storm watch site's tweets about local cancellations, and others that are embedded in sites that I use. But I don't find I have much to say to the world at large, or at least not in 140 characters.

That said, I found that the page layout for twitter was easier to follow than the one for blogger, as far as changing settings is concerned. I prefer to change the privacy settings to the most private available when I create a new account on any site, though I refrained in this case so that my tweets would be readable by others in the course of this exercise. Perhaps I'll find it worthwhile once I get used to it; I will try checking twitter once in a while and see if what crops up is interesting.

A few negative aspects I found about twitter are first when you create the account, they prompt you to add 5 people to follow, then 5 more, then more, and I did not realise there was a 'skip' button at the bottom to go to the next step, since this button is pale grey and very small, very difficult to notice. I would have liked that button to be at the top, so that I could choose not to follow 'well-known people' or 'people you know' and just make my own choices. The unfollow function is very easy to use to mitigate that little irritation. The other negative aspect is that it seems that people or organisations tweet either too much or too little. When I saw what tweets were on my page I was dismayed that there were sometimes 20 or more tweets by one individual in a row, and very few by any others. I find this would make it difficult to find a variety of information from different sources, though maybe I'll discover a setting that changes that.

As for tweeting, I did post one, but I had difficulty finding something to post, and finally settled on one of my favourite quotes as a starter. Perhaps I'll get a liking to it later, but for the moment the jury is still debating.