Finally getting the hang of Twitter

So I've had a personal Twitter account for almost a year now, but I never took the time to try and figure it out. Really, the only thing I knew how to do was an @Reply other than just typing in my tweet. I didn't understand what trending topics were all about, or what it meant to ReTweet. I had no idea how to post a shortened link, nor did i know why a lot of the links on Twitter were hyper-linked at bit.ly. I would go months without even logging in, and when I did log in I didn't tweet about anything with significance. From my previous experiences on Twitter - before the days of SM class - it seems like I am not alone. Most of my friends used Twitter in the exact same way as i did... to just update a status just like on Facebook, without any significant purpose.

After last Thursday's lecture on how to do all the different actions on Twitter I decided to make an effort this week to apply all of those actions. This week I mastered @reply, #hashtags, and bit.ly. I even got ReTweeted for my snow fall link for #berks county! I still have yet to find something that I wanted to ReTweet myself, though. I guess I can make that my goal for next week. Hopefully my Twitter account will eventually pose to have some significance to people other than my friends and classmates.