Comments on: An ugly duckling of twitter http://www.weba11y.com/blog/2009/03/02/feel-like-an-ugly-duckling/ Adventures in Web Accessibility Sun, 05 Sep 2010 20:40:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: Karen http://www.weba11y.com/blog/2009/03/02/feel-like-an-ugly-duckling/comment-page-1/#comment-3438 Karen Thu, 05 Mar 2009 16:22:54 +0000 http://www.weba11y.com/blog/?p=26#comment-3438 Oh, but you can tweet about AccProbe even though someone else already beat you to it. Maybe they merely announced it. You can add the angle "Did you know that with AccProbe you can...." or whatever comes to mind. I also think repetition is key on Twitter. One tweet gets lost in the millions of tweets. Re-tweeting a tweet (this does pervert one's language!) spreads the word to a larger and larger audience. I sympathize with your dilemma. I see so many great tips and links that I end up re-tweeting a lot - because I am so eager to share the news with others. I also want to be original so I don't sound like a - uh - parrot, to show that I have thought about the re-tweet and am not just forwarding things recklessly. I feel shy about what I can contribute personally, and at some point, I feel I cannot tweet more that day for fear of chasing away followers who feel too inundated with my tweets! It is really exciting to see how much accessibility is being discussed "out there" on Twitter. I started with @stcaccess in the beginning of November. It is an incredible learning, network-broadening, conversing experience. As @iheni said today, Twitter is giving a channel of expression to "people who are otherwise not heard and not just *names*." Have fun! Oh, but you can tweet about AccProbe even though someone else already beat you to it. Maybe they merely announced it. You can add the angle “Did you know that with AccProbe you can….” or whatever comes to mind. I also think repetition is key on Twitter. One tweet gets lost in the millions of tweets. Re-tweeting a tweet (this does pervert one’s language!) spreads the word to a larger and larger audience.

I sympathize with your dilemma. I see so many great tips and links that I end up re-tweeting a lot - because I am so eager to share the news with others. I also want to be original so I don’t sound like a - uh - parrot, to show that I have thought about the re-tweet and am not just forwarding things recklessly. I feel shy about what I can contribute personally, and at some point, I feel I cannot tweet more that day for fear of chasing away followers who feel too inundated with my tweets!

It is really exciting to see how much accessibility is being discussed “out there” on Twitter. I started with @stcaccess in the beginning of November. It is an incredible learning, network-broadening, conversing experience. As @iheni said today, Twitter is giving a channel of expression to “people who are otherwise not heard and not just *names*.”

Have fun!

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