{"id":14809,"date":"2013-01-19T19:01:13","date_gmt":"2013-01-19T19:01:13","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2025-10-13T20:43:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T20:43:13","slug":"are-you-a-tweet-person","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/?p=14809","title":{"rendered":"Are you a Tweet Person?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our audience at asiancemagazine.com<\/em><\/strong> is somewhat computer-savvy, but I wonder how many are participating in Twitter<\/strong>, the on-line interactive communication site where the individual messages are limited to 140 characters, including spaces.<\/p>\n

I am fairly new to Twitter, nearly addicted right now<\/strong>, though that should wear off. It\u2019s like eating potato chips, not terribly nutritious but hard to stop. <\/p>\n

You sign up by choosing a username and your password, standard stuff for the Internet. Put up a picture of yourself, or something else, along with a 160-character-or-less description, and this becomes the profile that others will see if they become interested in knowing about you.<\/p>\n

The twitter.com site has informative help items, but much is pretty intuitive. Starting off, you will want to \u201cfollow\u201d some news sites and perhaps some celebrities. You can search for people you know. [I am douglaswcooper.] Whomever you follow, you will then receive their short messages, \u201cTweets,\u201d whenever they produce them. Soon you will also see others commenting on these or extending them or\u2026. When you reply, they may choose to follow you and thereafter will see your tweets. You can Retweet these to others. You can also send private \u201cdirect messages\u201d to individuals who follow you and you are able to \u201cunfollow\u201d and even \u201cblock\u201d those you decide no longer to interact with. In a few sessions, you will have made some interesting acquaintances. <\/p>\n

What can you say within the 140-character limit?<\/strong> For example, I used two messages back-to-back to send:<\/p>\n

Poem by Lee Wilson Dodd:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Much that I sought I could not find.
\nMuch that I found I could not bind.
\nMuch that I bound I could not free.
\nMuch that I freed returned to me.<\/p>\n

Another time, I told a joke:<\/strong>
\nHe: \u201cHappy birthday, dear, what would you like?\u201d
\nShe: \u201cI want a divorce.\u201d
\nHe: \u201cOh, I wasn\u2019t thinking of spending THAT much!\u201d<\/p>\n

In response to the news from a Tweep [one who Tweets] that Viagara sometimes causes deafness, I responded, \u201cDid you say \u2018Niagara\u2019?\u201d<\/p>\n

Another use for Tweets is to give the link<\/strong> for a news item or a site to call it to the attention of others. For example, \u201cSee my article, \u2018Provide, Provide\u2019 in http:\/\/asiancemagazine.com<\/em><\/strong>.\u201d Asiancemagazine.com<\/em><\/strong> is on Twitter and sometimes the staff Tweets to call attention to articles, too.<\/p>\n

Under its \u201cDiscover\u201d section<\/strong>, you will receive short summaries of items thought likely to be of interest to you. You can also search for keywords and see the tweets that relate, and you can learn to follow threads like #asian or #marriage or other words with a leading #, making the words \u201chashtags,\u201d more easily found and replied to.<\/p>\n

There are lots of women on Twitter, though men probably predominate.<\/strong> It differs from Facebook in having much less emphasis on what is going on in one\u2019s personal life, though some use it that way, but most post news and articles and comments. <\/p>\n

When I finish this piece, I am going to go to Twitter and write:
\n\u201cEnjoyed GOLD MOUNTAIN, #romantic #novel about San Francisco 1906, #interracial #AsianAmerican.\u201d<\/strong> I have not counted the characters, but when I get to Twitter, it will do so for me, and I can edit it there to add or subtract to get below my 140-character limit. By the way, I recommend that novel highly, having gotten it through Amazon and read it on my Kindle.<\/p>\n

It is not a dating site, being nation-wide, but you can make friends, pen-pals of a sort, learn a lot and have some fun.<\/p>\n

Give it a try, or as they might say, \u201cgive it a twy.\u201d
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n

Douglas Winslow Cooper, Ph.D., is a retired scientist, now an author [douglas@tingandi.com<\/em><\/strong>] who now helps others the write their own books. He wrote Ting and I: A Memoir\u2026 <\/em><\/strong> and co-authored Ava Gardner\u2019s Daughter?<\/em><\/strong> and The Shield of Gold,<\/em><\/strong> all three published by Outskirts Press [outskirtspress.com<\/em><\/strong>] and available through Outskirts and amazon.com<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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