Twitter newbie

robert2012

I set up a twitter acount but how do I get all the tweets that are being tweeted in real time without following someone, or is that how it works?

NeilF3485

That is how it works, follow everyone whose tweets you wish to see, and they will appear on your timeline as they tweet.

Otherwise you would need to go to someone's profile and view their tweets to view them all on their own.

Darksun

You can also search for keywords, and the results will update in real time

T_T_2

Yes as has been said you can either identify what you want to see based on an individual or key terms or both, otherwise if you were to view each and every tweet from every member of twitter you would never get a chance to read one as it would spin past your eyes so quickly

libra10

Tweetdeck is great for Twitter. Can be downloaded here -

http://www.tweetdeck.com/

Good luck

free4440273

yep, as libra said TD is v good/ been bought in fact by Twitter //

paulofessex

robert2012 wrote: »

I set up a twitter acount but how do I get all the tweets that are being tweeted in real time without following someone, or is that how it works?

OP theres loads of guides around, however why not check out www.officialphillipschofield.com Twitter guide, he has a really usual one.

asbokid

Here's a free conspiracy theory for you...

The media, both state media and corporate media, has been relentlessly plugging www.twitter.com over recent months.

In recent days the media promotion of www.twitter.com has gone into overdrive as the paid Talking Heads pound away at the otherwise dull story of celebrity "super injunctions".

The underlying purpose of the propaganda has been to herald www.twitter.com as the new source for celebrity gossip, gossip that the courts would sooner you never learned. Forget the idiot box, forget News of the Screws, if you want the low-down on the who's-shagging-who of today, then www.twitter.com is where you head for the scoop..

The web statisticians at Experian HitWise [1] are reporting that UK traffic to the www.twitter.com website spiked by 22% in "the rush to find the identify of the injunction footballer" (Mr Ryan Giggs, Esq). And of those 22% of visitors who stampeded to www.twitter.com, an astonishing 12% were new visitors to the site. Most websites could only dream of getting new visitor statistics like that.

Now, for starters, this promotion shouldn't even be happening on the BBC. The BBC is the licence payer-funded state broadcaster of Great Britain. www.twitter.com is a privately-owned company with shares that are held by private investors. Twitter's stock is traded unofficially in private secondary markets. As such, the BBC's promotion of Twitter, a private sector business, is in breach of the Corporation's own charter. So what's the rub?

Who owns Twitter? Who gains from this mass media promotion? Cui Bono? Follow the money, or as they say in Russia, "следовать за деньгами"...

The following list gives the names of Twitter's major investors as of December 2010.[2] Most of Twitter's investors are private equity houses, others are venture capital companies and mutual funds, and the rest are private individuals..

Benchmark Capital
Bezos Expeditions
Charles River Ventures
DG Incubation
!!!!!! Costolo
Digital Garage
Floodgate (formerly Maples Investments)
Insight Venture Partners
Institutional Venture Partners
Kevin Rose
Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB)
Lowercase Capital
Marc Andreessen
Morgan Stanley Venture Partners
Naval Ravikant
Ron Conway
Spark Capital
Tim Ferriss
T. Rowe Price
Union Square Ventures.

So those are the moneybags behind twitter, and here is the theory of their gameplan (first draft)...

The injunctions themselves were the first major part of the corporate propaganda operation to promote www.twitter.com to the general public.

British judges were privately briefed by servants of HMG who had themselves been instructed by corporate agents working for Twitter. In those briefings, the judges were encouraged to issue wide-reaching gagging orders for high profile celebrities. At the same time, media lawyers were told that if they sought injunctions for their miscreant clients, those requests would be sympathetically considered by the courts. And indeed, over a period of a few months, dozens of these "super injunctions" were obtained, but all were kept under wraps until the propaganda operation was choreographed to unfold.

At the appropriate time, details of the injunctions were then drip-fed into the www.twitter.com network. Paradoxically, it was the newspapers and the idiot box which led the crusade and first alerted the public to the Twitter gossip. At the same time as causing a mass stampede to www.twitter.com, the media goons feigned indignation at the unfairness of it all. How it was oh so wrong that the identities of these celebrities were being reported on www.twitter.com, while the gutter-wallowing Murdoch rags were forbidden, by order of court, from revealing their names or even the briefest insight into the celebrity identities. Thereby attracting even more attention to www.twitter.com!

Insofar as the celebrities are concerned and for the purposes of the propaganda vector, they and their identities are irrelevant. However for the half-witted general public with its insatiable desire for vacuous gossip about high profile non-entities, the Twitter scandal was an irresistible carrot-on-the-stick.

This was a fantastic lure to get the plebs surfing, pronto, to www.twitter.com.

And in that respect, the propaganda operation was a great success. On Saturday 21 May, we are told that one in every 184 internet visits in the UK was to www.twitter.com. (As an aside, the ease with which Experian analysts conjured up that statistic illustrates how closely monitored our internet has become.)

Back in April 2011, the corporate value of www.twitter.com was put at $7 billion, already up from $4 billion in January.[3][4] The company must be worth much much more today after this sustained media promotion. And all thanks to a few old fools of the High Court, the usual suspects in Fleet Street, and not least the state broadcaster, dear old Auntie Beeb, who proved herself to be just another dirty whore of corporate finance!


[1] http://www.business2community.com/social-media/twitter-is-ascending-at-least-in-the-uk-029530
[2] http://www.chubbybrain.com/blog/twitter-investors-venture-capital-heavyweights/
[3] http://www.webpronews.com/twitters-suggested-value-hits-7-7-billion-in-share-auction-2011-03
[4] http://mashable.com/2011/01/25/twitter-now-worth-4-billion/

bingo_bango

Blimey Asbo..... If Carlsberg did conspiracy theories......... :whistle:

And only 15 links to Twitter to continue the lie...well done

robt_2

asbokid wrote: »

Here's a completely barmy non-sensical conspiracy theory for you...

Fixed it for you,

moonrakerz

Now that Ryan Giggs' name is publicly available do you need Twitter any more ? :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

(I'd never heard of any of the other so-called celebrities mentioned on there !)