{"id":59,"date":"2012-11-19T14:15:51","date_gmt":"2012-11-19T14:15:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/viewsource\/?p=59"},"modified":"2012-11-20T11:44:26","modified_gmt":"2012-11-20T11:44:26","slug":"the-twitter-learning-curve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/viewsource\/2012\/11\/19\/the-twitter-learning-curve\/","title":{"rendered":"The Twitter learning curve"},"content":{"rendered":"
We had our first IRISS Asks<\/em><\/a> session on Twitter on Friday November 9th. IRISS Asks is where we \u2018ask\u2019 a social services\/social care related question on Twitter in order to generate a discussion around the topic (hashtag:<\/strong> #irissasks<\/em>). Generally it went well, but it kicked off an interesting internal discussion about the gradient of Twitter\u2019s learning curve for new users.<\/p>\n It\u2019s well known that Twitter can be a confusing place for the uninitiated, as this spoof Jack Nicholson account<\/a> nicely demonstrates (reads from bottom up):<\/p>\n