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d like to add a few quirky members to your twitter family then believe me when i tell you you can pretty much find anyone on twitter following the fantastical i can t quite remember where or when i first found jesus i think i spotted him in a retweet by someone else which had made me laugh and so as is the tradition i became a follower then in return well let me just say there can be few more defining moments in an online life that the moment you receive an email notification informing you that jesus christ carpenter healer god is now following you on twitter i mean that s not something you read every day is it note however i ve just looked at jesus s profile page it now says he isn t following anyone so where did that email come from i guess i ll never know anyways what i m hoping to point out here is that for every genuine account held by a real person there s at least the equivalent of impersonators and funny ones at that lately i ve been enjoying the tweets of the 140 year old laura ingalls wilder as she struggles through another long cold winter on the prairie if half pint s not your girl then you can just as easily follow the queen charles dickens samuel johnson barbie because tweeting s what the great and good are doing these days having said that it s not just the good so be careful out there an email telling you voldemort s following you now that s got to make the heart quicken it d probably be as startling as the time i was tweeted at by the stalking velociraptor one day last spring kirstyneale and i were innocently discussing how the danger of taking up the latest trend for wearing capes was the tendency for them to restrict your arm movements giving you the appearance of what i termed little velociraptor arms several hours later the stalking velociraptor who must have heard us taking his name in vain tweeted me to alert me to the fact he was peeking out of the bushes and had heard us crazy moments like this like a velociraptor who likes spying on people who use his name almost as much as he likes coffee all add to the rich tapestry that is twitter and one can only imagine these people are hosting these accounts for no other reason than it s fun now there s a thought that would be some advanced homework for me to set you wouldn t it who would your twitter alter ego be who could you convincingly tweet as mmmm that could be revealing find your own funny apart from these odd characters who pop up to boggle the mind and brighten your timeline don t forget to search twitter for the people programmes publications and blogs etc which you already find funny i follow several comedians and comic writers i admire luckily their tweets often reflect their comedic talents although the temptation for them must be to keep all their material for future projects finally i foster my love of all things overheard by following a few accounts which like i often do tweet the results of their eavesdropping such as the overheard newsroom i think we should now add jokes and overheard snippets into the category of forms of writing which work particularly well in a tweet as discussed in lesson 8 ok then as with every task i ve set you throughout this series this has to be all about tailoring twitter to you have a search around for some light relief check out the people you find funny leave a comment here sharing the quirky characters you already follow so we can all have look other people recommendations and retweets are the best way to naturally uncover the weird tweeters who are consistently worth following if you re feeling creative let us all know who your twitter alter ego could be or if you re feeling brave you could strike up a conversation with an infamous tweeting villain there s bound to be more than voldemort and a velociraptor out there so just take care well then that s almost it for tips for the twitter curious i ll be back on friday with my final post which will be a general round up of loose ends plus i ll be giving more details on the collage giveaway entry is for those who ve blogged about the class i already have a few things planned but i d also like to know what would you like to see in the final post are there any questions you still have about twitter i can t promise to answer them but between all those on the twitter curious list and with twitter at our disposal we could begin to find a solution i m sure have you found an account who you think we should all follow is there a category of people to follow that i ve overlooked etc etc etc whatever you d like to bring up right i ll leave you to go and get your twitter funny on and i ll see you back here on friday julie posted by julie kirk at 09 55 3 comments labels twitter curious twitter training tips how to tweet prompts free class email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest tuesday 8 february 2011 art journal challenge weeks 3 4 hi hi hi if past history is anything to go by i will actually succeed in responding to each of the 52 weekly prompts in the ukstampers art journal challenge i just might not do them all in the designated week i managed the photograph myself each week of 2009 for my year in outfits challenge i set myself i just didn t quite finish each page in the same week and when during the same year i followed along with emily falconbridge s 52q a year of mini art journaling i used to save up several prompts and work on more than one at a time so either i am either truly able to comfortably dedicate myself to 52 full weeks on the same thing or else 2009 was a fluke the year of the year long project i guess we ll find out in 46 weeks time when the ukstampers challenge is completed for now though i have responded to 4 of the 6 prompts so far go me week 3 s prompt was to write about school use lined paper and splash on some ink lined paper hello favourite product splash ink around i m in write about school not so much while reading through other people s delighted responses to the prompt i just had a complete block seeing how much the others had enjoyed the chance to reminisce about schooldays suddenly feltquite alien to me don t get me wrong school wasn t the worst time in my life even though it kind of led up to it and if you d asked me a week before the prompt was released if i could tell you ten lighthearted things to say about it i d have been convinced that i could and i could i just didn t want to just like when i was at school i almost went ahead and played along because i didn t want people to think i was trying hard to be different but even at school i managed to fight those feelings and stay true to myself so sticking to my own ideas in a page in a painty book was really nothing in comparison i m happy with it and in it s own subdued smudgy nothing quite clear way it s kind of a fitting response to the where did you come from and why now feeling i had about making it week 4 was much easier to write about childhood sweets but call me awkward i ignored the bit about childhood in fact i did the exact opposite i m still getting used to how the fibrous paper in the journal reacts to paint and ink even after sealing it with gesso but i do rather like some of the texture which shows through i haven t yet quite conquered stamping onto it below you might just be able to work out the phrase trick or treat running down the left side of the page the colour inks i used just blended in and i was too afraid of spoiling the whole page to go over it in black trick or treat is a fitting phrase for the bars of chocolate with salt i like the chocolate is dark and velvety and the hints of salt take the edge off the creaminess at just the right level most of the time until every now and again a few minutes after i ve eaten some a grain of rocksalt just re appears from nowhere and that s not quite the same rich experience there are 2 new prompts ready for me to tackle when i get the chance neither of which at the moment appear to be having a detrimental effect on my mental health so that s a bonus i ll bring my pages to show you when they re done and you can judge for yourself until then i ll see you tomorrow for what will be the penultimate tips for the twitter curious lesson julie posted by julie kirk at 09 45 10 comments labels art journal journaling ukstampers efemera ink challenge acrylic paint zebra email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest monday 7 february 2011 tips for the twitter curious 7 the skill and poetry of twitter hi again welcome to the final week of tips for the twitter curious my last ditch attempt to convince you all to give tweeting a go ok maybe not all of you if i d found a sure fire way to brainwash everyone who reads my blog into my way of thinking i d probably have used it for far more evil gains than tempting you onto the twitter side plus if i haven t convinced you after the 6 posts i ve written so far i doubt it s ever going to happen so this week i m taking a more laid back approach rather than a full on attempt to plead the case again wednesday s post will have a bit of a fun end of term theme but i m starting today by going into out and out subjective word nerd mode by looking at how twitter also satisifies my love of alll things language y so if social media analysis crossed with literary criticism isn t your thing you re just going to have to indulge me it s a textbook case of form influencing content no seriously bear with me it is l haven t yet researched into the development of twitter and why they decided to set the 140 characters per message rule therefore i m not sure how far the developers were aware of the impact that this structure was going to have on the atmosphere on the site but it is that space limit which to my mind has most certainly had the biggest influence over what gets written and how it is received so the form as we know the form consists of short 140 character messages the approximate length of an average sentence influences the content so what are you going to be able to write in that space it s not going to be a major thesis is it by the nature of their form your tweets cannot be an in depth formal look at anything have no room for the usual niceties of polite conversation who has room to waste five of the 140 characters to spell out dear_ probably won t be too personal as unless you protect your tweets you are aware of the potential for anyone to see what you ve written therefore an informal conversational rather than true confessional style has developed to suit the form we are restricted to writing in so what remember back to my initial tweet or not to tweet post where i practically marched you up to twitter s house by the scruff of your neck knocked on it s door for you and demanded you join up so you could keep in contact with people you miss well it was this lovely easy informal style which people seem to naturally fall into while on there that made me want to spread the word so emphatically as i mentioned before i don t suggest that once on twitter you ll never email or meet up with a friend ever again but it s speed and style make it such an accessible way for you to offer people a quick in to your personality and you to theirs it s very much like being in the same room as someone you re comfortable with and then thinking out loud to them do you know what i mean it s how you act with loved ones and friends isn t it you say those random things which while mainly being entirely pointless add to the particular you ness that other people come to know love about you it most often happens when they re in your actual physical company and they get to see all sides of you but if you can t be together some of these moments of you can go missing as they re often the kind of thing you d never dream of writing down in an email and sending out to your entire address book case in point here s something entirely random i d had on my mind which i ended up tweeting out loud i don t know maybe that is slightly too much information about me for some of my followers but for others well maybe they felt like they got a bit more julie ness from it and be rest assured joel mchale s nose s place in my affections is not often the kind of thing i send news of to my email contacts ok then now we ve all got that clear let s move away from the informal qualities twitter nurtures so well and go on to look at other kinds of writing which suit the same form a bit more highbrow than my nose tweet the short form is also a great medium through which to read and share quotations there are hundred of accounts dedicated to all kinds of quotes so there s bound to be something which appeals to you amongst them whether you go on make art journal scrapbook etc based on a quote you find there or whether you simply read and absorb them for their own worth it s a great way as i keep stating to have inspirational things come and seek you out similarly a tweet s the perfect length for interesting definitions such as these from wordspy according to its twitter bio wordspy is devoted to lexpionage the sleuthing of new words and phrases which naturally gets me rather excited too however while love that definition of the velcro dog i prefer mine non stick and 100 metres away finally pithy philosophical words are also an ideal size for tweeting and you can find pretty much any philosopher you like on there including the long deceased i don t think they run their own accounts though one of my consistently favourite philosophical figures i enjoy seeing in my twitter timeline is the late tommy howells his bio explains that he was a teacher thinker and friend at whitman college from 1938 through 1987 here you ll find quotes recorded by his students during class and i believethe twitter account is run by his son who wanted to pass his father swords on i honestly can t remember how or where i discovered this account probably on one of my follower hopping escapades but it just shows how there s hidden gems out there just waiting to be followed and have their words and thoughts reach a wider audience so if you re still with me we ve looked at a few ways in how the form of twitter has effected the use and how it suits other pre existing writing forms ie definitions and quotations now let s look at a unique way in which tweeters have begun giving old punctuation marks a new meaning in a particular method which i remember baffling me when i first began the world of twitter s a stage the super short writing form has spawned the everday use of something equivalent to written stage directions you d usually only see in the manuscript of a play let s start with our old friend the hashtag we first met back in lesson 4 besides being used to tag tweets of a similar topic they are also used like an aside an extra on top of their dialogue in the play additional words spoken directly into the audience such as this there was just no room in this tweets for me to explain that when i saw the 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