I have a feeling someone somewhere is having a laugh at me.
As some of you may be aware I have a Twitter account and I have to admit don't really do a whole lot with it, but what I have used it for is as an exercise to create a weekly tip on how to deal with stress. Not easy in 140 characters, but I'm quite pleased that I've so far managed 68 tips, which includes one for Christmas, New Year and Firework night. And yes, just in case you ask, the Christmas and New Year ones will be repeated this year... I decided to give myself a bit of a break and not stress about it. The tip goes out on a Monday, usually at 9am, but sometimes at 8 and sometimes at 10 - I don't want to be too predictable!
Just before I went away to Bhutan and Nepal I discovered that on Tweetdeck (a Twitter app) I could schedule updates. This meant that even though I was not online or webified at the time, my tip of the week could go out.
When I got back, I decided I'd keep this up and I'm pleased to be able to report that I now have scheduled tips every Monday up to 14th January.
But... and those that know me well will understand this... I originally wrote 'they're' and I wanted to put 'they are'. All good and fine? No it's not! B****y Tweetdeck won't let me delete any updates and instead, each time I tried, it created a new one! Now I have 4 with 'they're' in them and one with 'they are' and unless I find a way round this there'll be 5 updates all on 7th January which say the same thing.
One way round this is to put them all out at different times, which is ok, but it still doesn't get me to understand how to delete any.
Can you help? Before I become too stressed out that is!
I'm sorry I can't help Vee - I'm a complete beginner when it comes to Twitter. Have you asked William?
ReplyDeleteI put a message out on Twitter, but got no replies - and William is a follower. I've gone for the easy option and it's now going out 5 times. But thanks for the thought Karen.
DeleteErr...having read this several times I can only conclude that you're talking in computer speak. In my brain that translates to gobbledygook. Sorry, can't help at all.
DeleteAt least you made me laugh Denise. x
DeleteI saw your tweet but was too embarrassed to publicly demonstrate my ignorance - didn't even know you could schedule tweets. I think this may also have been the bystander effect in evidence!
ReplyDeleteAh... the dreaded bystander effect! Just wait until 7th Jan and you'll get the full impact! In case you need to do updates yourself, Tweetdeck is where I schedule updates and is very easy to do as long as you don't want to change anything.
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