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At last a chance to sin!
Hi Elaine you clearly speak from the experience I need.
I've been "on" Twitter for well over a year now and, for the life of me can't see what 90% of it is all about. I just about get the "following" bit, ie I find someone involved in an area that interests me and follow him/her/it and I'll be inundated with Tweets on my screen from them and other like-minded things, hopefully on the same topic.
But on Accountingweb for example, many articles carry a Tweets icon showing the number of Tweets but when I click on it and am taken to the Tweets they give me a pic & name but little else, ie no added comment on the article and if I click on the person in the list of Tweets I just go to their "page".
An example is a recent article on solo practitioners going paperless:
All of the current 3 Tweets merely show the person's name followed by "says: Technology for solo practitioners 2", ie the name of the Article, what does that add to my understanding of the topic or even the views of people who have read it?
Please fill me in as I have potential to sin but am being denied.
Tweets icon
Paul, the tweets info that you see is telling you how many people have tweeted the article to their followers. This allows the article to be disseminated to interested people who may not know about or be signed up to AWeb.
Use something other than Twitter when browsing tweets - programs like Tweetdeck allow you to search for certain things so that you can see things of interest to you being tweeted by people that you are not following. That way, you can focus on the info that you want to see and can keep out anything you don't want to see.