http://www.travel-writers-exchange.com/Forum/tags/twitter Travel Writers Exchange Forum Home » Tag: twitter - Recent Posts en-US Sat, 11 Feb 2012 12:56:47 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://www.travel-writers-exchange.com/Forum/search.php http://www.travel-writers-exchange.com/Forum/topic/what-precautions-can-you-take-to-avoid-inappropriate-twitter-followers#post-2386 Thu, 11 Nov 2010 12:25:06 +0000 jdaryl 2386@http://www.travel-writers-exchange.com/Forum/ <p>Here is the Twitter page on blocking people with the updated #NewTwitter:<br /> <a href="http://support.twitter.com/articles/230550" rel="nofollow">http://support.twitter.com/articles/230550</a></p> <p>With the new version, it has been pretty good at updating instantly for me. </p> http://www.travel-writers-exchange.com/Forum/topic/hello-2#post-2243 Tue, 27 Jul 2010 17:51:21 +0000 Trisha Miller 2243@http://www.travel-writers-exchange.com/Forum/ <p>Sounds yummy - please be sure to post a link to the recipe here when it's up....I'd love to give it a try! </p> http://www.travel-writers-exchange.com/Forum/topic/hello-2#post-2240 Sat, 24 Jul 2010 02:29:33 +0000 Josh 2240@http://www.travel-writers-exchange.com/Forum/ <p>Thanks for the welcome &lt;img src=&quot;http://www.travel-writers-exchange.com/Forum/my-plugins/bb-smilies/default/icon_smile.gif&quot; title=&quot;:)&quot; class=&quot;bb_smilies&quot; /&gt; </p> <p>Kimchi is great. Very easy to make too, especially the cucumber style. I'm working on an article on how to make it which will be on the site in a few weeks. </p> http://www.travel-writers-exchange.com/Forum/topic/hello-2#post-2239 Fri, 23 Jul 2010 23:58:52 +0000 Maria Staal 2239@http://www.travel-writers-exchange.com/Forum/ <p>Hey Josh, </p> <p>Welcome to the forum. Always nice to meet someone new.<br /> I basically spent two-and-a-half years of my life in youth hostels when backpacking in Australia and New Zealand. I still prefer hostels over hotels, as they are great places to meet people. </p> <p>Maria </p> http://www.travel-writers-exchange.com/Forum/topic/hello-2#post-2236 Fri, 23 Jul 2010 10:37:35 +0000 Amandah Blackwell 2236@http://www.travel-writers-exchange.com/Forum/ <p>Welcome Josh! </p> <p>I stayed at Budget Backpackers in Edinburgh, Scotland in 2007. We had our own little community and looked out for each other. I think it's a good idea for travelers to have at least one "hostel" experience.</p> <p>I liked the 18 Stinky Foods from Around the World blog post. I always wanted to try Kimchi. </p> http://www.travel-writers-exchange.com/Forum/topic/hello-2#post-2235 Fri, 23 Jul 2010 09:41:08 +0000 Josh 2235@http://www.travel-writers-exchange.com/Forum/ <p>Hi,</p> <p>My name is Josh. I blog on travel over at <a href="http://www.openjourney.com/">Open Journey</a> and write content for some other travel blogs. I also founded a <a href="http://www.hostelmanagement.com/">hostel industry website</a> a few years ago.</p> <p>Looking forward to meeting other travel writers/bloggers and learning more. I'm on Twitter here: <a href="http://twitter.com/joshhostels">@joshhostels</a>.</p> <p>Josh </p> http://www.travel-writers-exchange.com/Forum/topic/do-you-really-need-to-usetwitter#post-1723 Fri, 19 Mar 2010 08:57:33 +0000 Trisha Miller 1723@http://www.travel-writers-exchange.com/Forum/ <p>I do agree with Geraldine (@everywhereist, who is laugh-out-loud funny and everyone should be reading her blog).....even if you only occasionally tweet, you'll see some benefit from it, mainly from the retweets.</p> <p>Maria, I know what you mean about so many tweets to read - it's very hard to keep up with everyone that you want to keep up with.....there are some people that I would like to follow but don't, because they tweet so often that it's overwhelming.</p> <p>What I do that makes it a little easier is to use a Twitter client (I prefer Seesmic Desktop) and I have a list of my "faves" - a dozen or so out of the 240+ people I follow - it keeps tweets from those people open in a separate column so I can better keep up with them.....do I still miss stuff? Yep, but I don't stress about it any more - I just try to read some posts here and there, comment on (and tweet) the ones I really like, and retweet whatever I can.......</p> <p>I give myself an hour or so for reading blogs and tweeting in the morning, and the same later on in the day. Sometimes when I'm having lunch at my desk I'll check Twitter again and retweet some more stuff from others.... </p> http://www.travel-writers-exchange.com/Forum/topic/do-you-really-need-to-usetwitter#post-1721 Fri, 19 Mar 2010 07:45:33 +0000 Bryan Cassidy 1721@http://www.travel-writers-exchange.com/Forum/ <p>This is why I do a "Monthly Travel Tweet" recap on the first of each month on Tourfolio.com to list some of the great travel tweets that people might have missed.</p> <p>You can easily get lost and caught up in the 'conversations' on Twitter, which is why I agree with Trisha that you really should limit the time because it's easily a drain for productivity on your travel writing. </p> http://www.travel-writers-exchange.com/Forum/topic/do-you-really-need-to-usetwitter#post-1718 Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:30:43 +0000 Maria Staal 1718@http://www.travel-writers-exchange.com/Forum/ <p>What I have noticed on Twitter is that if you follow a lot of people you also get a lot of tweets.<br /> I have just started out on Twitter and so far only follow 14 people, but even so the amount of tweets I get is enormous. No way I can read them all, so often I don't scroll down to the bottom to catch up with where I left off the day before. Because of that I probably miss out on important tweets.</p> <p>To me it has always seemed that Twitter was set up for people with blackberries etc, who are connected to the internet day and night. I am only connected to the internet when my computer is on, which on certain days might be as much as 7 hours and on other days only one hour. And even when my computer is on I usually only sign in on Twitter for 5 minutes and then sign out again. </p> <p>In this light I think the retweet are very important, because if someone retweets your link it comes up at the top again. </p> http://www.travel-writers-exchange.com/Forum/topic/do-you-really-need-to-usetwitter#post-1716 Thu, 18 Mar 2010 13:33:50 +0000 everywhereist 1716@http://www.travel-writers-exchange.com/Forum/ <p>I say yes, absolutely. Twitter is free, easy-to-use, and even if you only occasionally "tweet", it offers a lot of benefits. It's easy to network, get in touch with other people in the industry, keep tabs of what's going on, and, most importantly, it's a great way to broadcast your own work - nearly half of my traffic comes from Twitter (and I owe a lot of that to people like Trisha, who retweet my articles). All in all, it definitely offers a worthwhile return on your investment of time. </p>