Monday's Coming...
By pgn
@pgntwo (22405)
Derry, Northern Ireland
March 19, 2017 8:13am CST
I remember saving this picture when I saw it some months ago on one of the local travel service accounts that I follow on Twitter.
Using Twitter as a source of news seems to me to be the best use of that particular social network - local traffic conditions, weather warnings, school closures, breaking news, travel delays... I can get a reasonable idea of what's going on out there in my bit of the globe without having to wade through news, e-mail, TV or radio programs to glean that one nugget that could change my day.
That leaves me free to focus on what I have to, or need to, do during the day, be it Monday or any other day of the week.
If you use Twitter, are you a consumer or a provider?
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@pgntwo (22405)
• Derry, Northern Ireland
19 Mar 17
@LadyDuck That was the clincher for me. I rarely access Twitter from the laptop, although there is an extensin for Chrome that I had n my previous laptop, I must seek it out again and put it on the new laptop, just to keep things aligned.
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@rebelann (117234)
• El Paso, Texas
19 Mar 17
As for revealing @pgntwo it depends on how much you share on any of them and also what your settings are. I tend to keep mine private because I have my real life friends on there and I like to keep it safe enough for us to have conversations.
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@PatZAnthony (14749)
• Charlotte, North Carolina
23 Mar 17
Twitter: We fall in the middle! It is a good way to keep up with the local happenings if we stay away from all the other stuff.
Mondays are okay with us.
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@PatZAnthony (14749)
• Charlotte, North Carolina
24 Mar 17
@pgntwo Yeah, we could get pulled in and be all day reading JUNK we did not want to read.
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@pgntwo (22405)
• Derry, Northern Ireland
24 Mar 17
@PatZAnthony And there is some fearsome amount of it about, junk.
@DaddyEvil (174478)
• United States
16 Apr 17
DaddyEvil has a twitter account, but if you follow him, you will soon realize something is wrong with DE! In this particular case, DE very rarely says anything unless someone is bothering PrettyEvil on twitter. When someone says something there that upsets PE, suddenly DE becomes verbose and slightly harassing... at least, until the person bothering PE leaves her alone. LMAO!
PrettyEvil told me she was "borrowing" DE for a little while several years ago. Now, if I want an account on twitter she says I will have to be someone else!
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@pgntwo (22405)
• Derry, Northern Ireland
16 Apr 17
@DaddyEvil If you wish to follow up on Twitter, with your non-DE alter ego, @JedRecord is the originator (not that I know him, he is followed by someone I follow, you know how it is.).
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@MarshaMusselman (38865)
• Midland, Michigan
23 Mar 17
I've not been to or used twitter in so long that I'm not sure that I realized you could glean all of that from it. Do you need to search it out or is it on your regular feed? I have need to check out a few news stations to get myself up to speed on certain events that I'm clueless on, maybe that's where I should start? Not sure, though, whether I want to read a load of small blurbs.
I do have an account and have used it in the past, but not for a very long time.
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@pgntwo (22405)
• Derry, Northern Ireland
23 Mar 17
I start by searching... When I have found a reliable source of info, I will then follow them.
I change who I follow depending on my needs, for example: if someone in the family is flying out for a week somewhere, I will usually add the origin and destination airport Twitter accounts, the airline, and possibly a weather and news feed covering the place they will be staying. Once they are back home, that lot of follows all get un-followed... And so on.
Searching for key words works best to get a feel for who to follow. I have found Instagram works similarly, if I am looking for photos of where the person will be staying, too.
Good luck!
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@garymarsh6 (24026)
• United Kingdom
22 Mar 17
I do have twitter but rarely use it.
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