All About Working

Here’s an article that was published on examiner.com by Jennifer L. Taylor that discusses “10 Tips for Successful Tweeting” to help you become a more successful tweeter.  Some of the ideas include:

• Completing your profile
• Getting to know your audience
• Working with Twitter on smartphones

After my own experience yesterday with not being able to access Twitter, I realize how dependent I am becoming on this new tool.  So these tips are coming at the right time!

If you found yourself unable to access Twitter or Facebook yesterday, you were not alone. Twitter went down between 9:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. EST on Thursday morning, August 6. Service was spotty afterward with network timeouts. By evening, things seemed to have improved. Reason given for the problem, Denial of Service.

Denial of Service occurs when hackers overload a web site with server requests and prevent legitimate users from using the site.

Facebook appears to have encountered similar issues but not as severe as Twitter.

This writer was a bit surprised to learn how dependent she had become on these two sites for instant information, especially concerning an event taking place that day. It was quite a revelation to learn how quickly new technology had a part of my planning process!

This was just too good to let it pass without a mention. It seems as though Bryan Benilous, a historical newspaper specialist at the digital-archive company Proquest, said he and his colleagues came across a Boston Daily Globe article from August 24, 1902, titled, “Face Book The New Fad,” describing a party game where revelers sketch out cartoony caricatures for fun.

“I think it is interesting to note the similarities with this first iteration of Face Book as a shared social experience,” said Mr. Benilous. “It’s almost like having friends write on your wall in a much less tech-savvy way.”

According to Ellen Gruber Garvey, a professor at New Jersey City University:

Drawing games and versions of the Surrealist parlor game Exquisite Corpse were popular activities. . . . it was common for Americans in the 19th and 20th centuries to keep guestbooks in which visitors and friends could scribble thoughts or jokes -– not unlike a MySpace or Facebook profile page. One notable version was kept by Amy Matilda Cassey, an abolitionist from Philadelphia.

Mr. Benilous and his group also discovered what appears to be an emoticon in a transcript of a speech by Abraham Lincoln, they’ve uncovered a 1942 Washington Post article titled “Think Before You Twitter” about gossiping and a 1903 article referring to the first “pocket telephone.”

Goes to show, there is nothing new under the sun!