Thursday 14 January 2010

Tweets for my tweets

Twitter is the way forwards says the world and his brother.

Everyone tweets.

Everyone.

So I jump in - dive in - head first. I can't swim.

Creating an account seems simple enough - eh voila! I'm there, I have a twitter account. Oh this is too simple.

And kind of complicated. I am offered to follow Barack Obama, Lenny Kravitz, Vampires, Lady Gaga and a few other accounts.

I think all my friends and family were emailed too.

I search desperately for Nicola Morgan's account. She will help me, she knows the ways of twittering. She's nice.

In the meantime I am trying to upload my pic.

Then disaster. Twitter suddenly freezes. My pc freezes. Abort, abort, abort.

Kitty, we have a problem.

Ctl. Alt. Delete.

The screen goes blank. Oh. No.

I have left my word docs open - a few lines of my masterpieces of poetry and a short story. I haven't saved them...

A few hours later, I wipe the last crumbs of my banana cake off my body.

I re-boot my pc. And I am back into my cosy world of blogs.

My tweeting days are over for now.

7 comments:

Jean said...

I keep wondering if I'm missing something with not tweeting but, especially after reading your posting, I think I'll leave it, at least for now. I could just imagine all that happening to me! I need to spend less time on the internet anyway and more time writing.

Old Kitty said...

Hi Jean

Thanks for visiting.

It was a silly thing to happen to me so I'm taking it as a hint that maybe it's not time yet!

I'm finding it really hard not being addicted to the internet but I do so agree with you - less internet surfing, more writing!

Take care
x

fairyhedgehog said...

I use Twitter. It's quite nice when friends tweet and I find the New Scientist fun to follow. I could live without it, though.

Old Kitty said...

hi fairyhedgehog

Well now I know you're there I'm feeling less scared of it now.

After I lick my wounds of deep shame at failing with twitter, I shall try again!

New Scientist as in the journal? Wow!

x

fairyhedgehog said...

Yes, New Scientist as in the journal. They tweet about their online articles and you can follow the link to read them.

I'm fairyhedgehog on Twitter, as I am almost everywhere.

Old Kitty said...

Hi

That's great to know. Thanks. I shall be braver next time!

Take care
x

Ann said...

I am on Twitter too! Don't have a clue what I am doing, but there you go!! When you do venture, look me up. We can try to figure it out together.