Friday, March 25, 2016

Using Twitter at a canter

Twitter is a fascinating tool for many purposes. It is not only a microblogging site or a social networking platform, rather it's an indispensable tool for professional purposes now. We follow hundreds and thousands of people and organizations to get their feeds and what's latest with them. But sometimes, if not most of the times, it gets tiring and fatiguing to check out all those hundreds of tweets.

Though we can use Twitter's list method to categorize the tweets, we would still have to check out each of them. Unless there's a text to voice feature added to Twitter, there's no escaping that.
But we can sift through tweets much faster and get to the ones that are most relevant and useful for us if we read them vertically rather than horizontally. That is, instead of beginning to read tweets to find out the contents of them, we drive our searching gaze vertically and read the first word of each tweet, from up to downwards, to ascertain its contents. If the initial wording of a particular tweet catches our attention, we take the second word and so forth until we decide whether to read the entire piece or not. This way, we can quickly and efficiently ply through numerous tweets to reach to the ones we care for.


Happy tweeting!

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