{"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

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The very fake @JNicholsonReal's first day on Twitter<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Although Twitter has an extensive Help Center<\/a>, with a range of thorough guides<\/a>, the sheer amount of information on there can itself be off-putting. Ideally, it\u2019d be great if Twitter could rethink its onboarding of new users and do a better job of educating them about things like hashtags<\/a><\/em> and replies<\/a><\/em> at the point they first sign on.<\/p>\n

Oh, and if you\u2019ve ever been caught out by Twitter\u2019s @reply<\/em>\u00a0system then don\u2019t worry, you\u2019re in good company. It seems Twitter\u2019s latest addition to its board of directors Peter Chernin<\/a> (the man who killed<\/del> oversaw MySpace for News Corp.) accidentally formatted the tweet announcing his appointment<\/a> as a reply to Twitter\u2019s own official profile, meaning that only those of his followers who also happen to follow the official Twitter account would get to see the announcement:<\/p>\n

@twitter<\/strong> I\u2019ve been a long-time user of twitter for news and information. Happy to be joining board of this very exciting company.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We had our first IRISS Asks 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: #irissasks). Generally it went well, but it kicked off an interesting internal discussion about the gradient of Twitter\u2019s … Continue reading The Twitter learning curve<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/viewsource\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/viewsource\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/viewsource\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/viewsource\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/viewsource\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/viewsource\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/viewsource\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/viewsource\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/viewsource\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}