Panel! Come along!

[Jo Zebedee]

I think it just takes getting used to it. Once you do, it makes perfect sens. But it's like walking into a huge party in a different country first time.

 

[TheDustyZebra]

Ralph, when I joined Twitter for the last panel, last month, I was advised to watch the discussion with two windows at the same time, which turned out to be very useful. One window for your home Twitter page, and one to watch the hashtag itself (search the hashtag in the search box of that window).

The one for the hashtag will show everything posted in chronological order, so you can see each new comment as it happens, and also you will see comments made by people you aren't following (and thus you will know other people to follow).

The one for your own account will sort the comments into "conversations", so if someone comments in reply to something that was said two minutes ago, it will line it up under the previous comment so that you can follow questions and answers together.

This method (which took me 40 minutes of the last hour-long panel to figure out) seems to mitigate the confusion that would occur with either of the windows taken by itself.

 

[ralphkern]

I'll give that a go next time, dusty. Cheers.

 

[millymollymo]

Thanks to everyone involved and for taking the time out to answer questions, it was good.

Twitter takes some time to get your head around to get the full potential, ralphkern, don't worry.

 

[Boneman]

Well, I got there in the end - thanks Springs! It seemed pretty frantic, and an hour went really quickly. Good job, all!

 

[Stephen Palmer]

Ralph, when I joined Twitter for the last panel, last month, I was advised to watch the discussion with two windows at the same time, which turned out to be very useful. One window for your home Twitter page, and one to watch the hashtag itself (search the hashtag in the search box of that window).

The one for the hashtag will show everything posted in chronological order, so you can see each new comment as it happens, and also you will see comments made by people you aren't following (and thus you will know other people to follow).

The one for your own account will sort the comments into "conversations", so if someone comments in reply to something that was said two minutes ago, it will line it up under the previous comment so that you can follow questions and answers together.

This method (which took me 40 minutes of the last hour-long panel to figure out) seems to mitigate the confusion that would occur with either of the windows taken by itself.

This advice is well worth following.

 

[Nick B]

I missed this due to work, I am now on twitter though! @nickbailey317 for anyone who is interested. I have followed a bunch of chrons, will add as I go.

 

[Kerrybuchanan]

Just followed you. I am cunningly disguised behind the twitter handle @Cavetraveller.