{"id":2521,"date":"2013-07-18T20:37:29","date_gmt":"2013-07-18T11:37:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/?p=2521"},"modified":"2023-04-26T00:52:02","modified_gmt":"2023-04-25T15:52:02","slug":"introducing-shiga-headlines-on-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/introducing-shiga-headlines-on-twitter\/","title":{"rendered":"Introducing Shiga Headlines on Twitter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Happy to announce that I&#8217;ve finally opened a Twitter account for shiga-ken.com. It&#8217;s called <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ShigaHeadlines\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Shiga Headlines<\/a> and anybody can read my tweets (Twitter posts) without joining Twitter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Shiga Headlines is my microblog for quick and short posts (140 characters or less) about Shiga Prefecture (news from mainstream media), shiga-ken.com updates (What&#8217;s New), and my Shiga activities. I will be tweeting (posting) things of interest that are too short for Shiga News and things I want to post right away. It will be mainly in English, and sometimes Japanese. (I can say a lot more in Japanese since it uses fewer characters than English.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Twitter is good for&nbsp;news headlines,&nbsp;notices, announcements, and tidbits. It will complement my Shiga News blog very well because it will fill in the need for quick and short news items. I&#8217;ve already installed a Twitter widget (box) on the home page and Shiga News blog where you can read my tweets side-by-side with Shiga News posts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Shiga Headlines will be dedicated to short and snappy posts while&nbsp;Shiga News will continue to have longer and more detailed posts. Content-wise, Shiga Headlines will be quite different from Shiga News and you will end up reading both.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You can read Shiga Headlines in the following ways:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 13px;\">At Twitter:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ShigaHeadlines\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/ShigaHeadlines<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>At&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/\">Shiga News<\/a>, in the right side bar.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>At&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\">shiga-ken.com home page<\/a>, in the right side bar.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>In your&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter timeline<\/a>&nbsp;if you are a registered Twitter user and clicked on &#8220;Follow&#8221; Shiga Headlines.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You can also access this blog post to see my tweets in the embedded box (widget) below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a class=\"twitter-timeline\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ShigaHeadlines\" data-widget-id=\"357444464597413888\">Tweets by @ShigaHeadlines<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For those of you new to Twitter, here are a few things to know:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 13px;\">Twitter is a free microblogging service based in San Francisco, California. It&#8217;s a microblog because the posts can only be 140 characters or less. That&#8217;s only one or two typical-length English sentences (as you can see above).<\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 13px;\">Posts to Twitter are called &#8220;tweets&#8221; which appear in a timeline. The most recent tweets appear at the top. The Twitter timeline can be read on the Twitter Web page or in a Twitter widget box embedded in any Web site.<\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A hashtag is a word or phrase prefixed by the # symbol. It is used to group tweets together. So in my tweets, you may see #nagahama, #hanabi, etc. When you click on or search for a hashtag, tweets having the same hashtag will appear in the results.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>When a tweet includes a link, the link will look abbreviated or incomplete because Twitter shortens it automatically. But it is still a valid link that you can click on.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Although you need not open a Twitter account to read people&#8217;s public tweets, you do need a Twitter account to write a reply to tweets.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>You don&#8217;t have to click on &#8220;Follow&#8221; to read a person&#8217;s public tweets. Anybody can access Twitter and read people&#8217;s tweets without registering. People can also read tweets in Twitter widgets embedded on Web sites.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Thus, you don&#8217;t need to have &#8220;followers&#8221; to have an audience for your tweets. The audience for Shiga Headlines will mainly be people who visit&nbsp;shiga-ken.com and Shiga News rather than Twitter followers.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Having followers enhances the social networking of your tweets since followers can retweet\/repost your tweet in their timeline or mark tweets as a &#8220;favorite.&#8221; But the number of followers does not accurately reflect the size of your audience.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Twitter also enables you to easily archive all your tweets which you can save locally on your computer. This is not possible with Facebook.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>If you don&#8217;t have a Web site where you can embed a Twitter widget or if you&#8217;re using only Twitter to deliver content, then your followers will be your main audience. But you&#8217;ll never know how many of your followers are actually reading your tweets. A lot of people are overly obsessed with their number of followers, FB friends, Likes, subscribers, etc. Don&#8217;t fall victim to this numbers game and other silliness of social networks. Be more obsessed with content quality and how useful and helpful you can be to others.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Twitter is just another viable method to deliver timely online content for everyone. You can be sure that I would never use it for pointless babble.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy to announce that I&#8217;ve finally opened a Twitter account for shiga-ken.com. It&#8217;s called Shiga Headlines and anybody can read my tweets (Twitter posts) without joining Twitter. 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