Fall sure is here in Seattle. On the first day of fall it was gray and rainy! September saw lots of tweets, plugin work, best practices advice, and more. It also saw my birthday, on which I ate a very large burger.
One common criticism of Twitter is that it’s a stream of unfiltered information that can whiz by faster than you can keep up. ((Though that certainly has its advantages, see: “Why Facebook is for ice buckets, Twitter is for Ferguson”.)). So I’m going to stick with grouping tweets by theme in this a future Fake Follows so you can hopefully get more out it.
If you still get your MTs confused with your RTs, check out the first fake follow post for the Twitter jargon. All the tweets are ones I sent or “retweeted” to the masses.
The “MRW” meme seems to be popping up more often:
The "MRW" meme is very confusing for @MRWweb. http://t.co/mbeX8CrVcp #mrw
— Mark Root-Wiley (@MRWweb) September 10, 2014
Tech and fundraising advice for all nonprofits:
"And I-I-I will always thank you" #80sFundraising pic.twitter.com/KTtKVQKe7w
— Rory Green (@RoryJMGreen) September 1, 2014
Overheard at #14LCS Tech can sometimes feel a kid's soccer game. EVERYONE runs to where the ball is, but may not be the best strategy.
— Jason Shim (@JasonShim) September 5, 2014
I spent a lot of time on support forums and so I have seen how and how not to get good support. Some advice on using forums from someone else and also me.
Every time you ask a question that you haven't Googled, a unicorn dies.
— Jeff Goins (@JeffGoins) September 15, 2014
Q&A Forums Lesson #1: Questions are like projects. A well-scoped one leads to the best results.
— Mark Root-Wiley (@MRWweb) September 22, 2014
Q&A Forums Lesson #2: The research required to ask a good _question_ often leads you to the right answer without asking the question.
— Mark Root-Wiley (@MRWweb) September 22, 2014
Q&A Forums Lesson #3: Remain calm. A question written in panic is muddled and may appear as demanding. Ask as you would want to be asked.
— Mark Root-Wiley (@MRWweb) September 22, 2014
Q&A Forums Lesson #4: Pay it forward. Active answerers are often rewarded with answers to their own questions.
— Mark Root-Wiley (@MRWweb) September 22, 2014
Twitter is always good for some snark and sarcasm directed at tech:
It's no surprise that the tech sector and its leaders struggle to solve problems that are not technological in nature. #hammerandnail
— Scott Berkun (@berkun) September 3, 2014
What a time to be alive http://t.co/vLAGAAzk5T pic.twitter.com/S0MMH2Vbuu
— Meredith Frost (@MeredithFrost) September 23, 2014
Twitter is also good for the tech funnies:
A SQL query goes into a bar, walks up to two tables and asks, "Can I join you?"
— Andy Sum 🙉 (@JigxorAndy) September 12, 2014
OH: QA Engineer walks into a bar. Orders a beer. Orders 0 beers. Orders 999999999 beers. Orders a lizard. Orders -1 beers. Orders a sfdeljkn
— Edial Dekker (@edial) September 23, 2014
Truth! RT @ValaAfshar: Updated Maslow’s hierarchy of needs: #EDU14 pic.twitter.com/1OzIUTs5DE
— Scott Sanchez (@scottsanchez) September 30, 2014
But Twitter isn’t all fun and games either:
Calvin and Hobbes street art in SE Portland… pic.twitter.com/11F5GzXI3r
— Mike Vogel (@mikev) September 8, 2014
Great post on feminism & wikis from Geek Feminism: "Verifiability, truth, and hearsay: feminist point of view" http://t.co/0EtjqB0EiJ
— Mark Root-Wiley (@MRWweb) September 16, 2014
This comes up frequently with clients and I found a great example to illustrate the issue. FAQs are great as long as they’re FAQs:
Remember! FAQs only make sense when the F & A are true. Ex: "Q: How does the new crest…transcend the soccer world?" http://t.co/KbRJSFMRTP
— Mark Root-Wiley (@MRWweb) September 18, 2014
This one goes out to my Dad, the professor:
oxford comma or no I think we can all agree there should be some commas, somewhere RT @madamezooble: pic.twitter.com/RttQBgbbNt
— Hannah Groch-Begley (@grouchybagels) September 18, 2014
And if you’re on Twitter tomorrow, you’ll see my official announcement of the plugin that followed this:
If I have time this week, I'm going to release a stupid pointless plugin. It will be awesome.
— Mark Root-Wiley (@MRWweb) September 15, 2014