Anyone looking for those keywords can see your post.

Thanks.

People often search on the subject they want to read about.

So you could write a sentence about the "New York Times" and anyone searching for "New York Times" might see your post.

That's why people who post funny things on popular topics pick up followers very quickly.

Your followers will automatically see what you post, and you will see what people you follow post.

But as per above you can search on any word or words. It could be a country, a celebrity, anything.

I still can't figure out facebook.

Not being critical of you, Kali. Facebook pisses me off.

One organization I am a member of encourages members to join Facebook and "like" their page so we can get updates. So I finally (after refusing for years) joined, located the group's page, "liked" them. I also "friended" my husband and his sister. That's it, those are the only things I connected with on Facebook.

I get nothing from the group. I constantly - every damn day - get multiple "notifications" - Notifications that people want me to friend them, updates about his sister's games, messages that someone "liked" a picture, and other messages from Facebook about crap I don't care about and don't want to hear about. I do NOTHING on Facebook - I don't even go there. But Facebook won't leave me alone.

One day I am going to go in and put in the Yahoo account I never use and never check. Or maybe put in the Gmail account I don't use either. Or maybe change the email to a nonsense email that doesn't exist. So long as I no longer have to look at a half doze Facebook emails every damn day.

Whew - I feel better now that is off my chest!

I'm with you: I have an old fake account my daughter made me open to see her photos. I have 3 friends, and one of them is totally annoying, but it's my daughter's boyfriend's mother, so I had to "friend" her.

I hate the stupid thing.

Just call me. Or, don't.

At the very least I'll change the email to something I don't use.

Just last night my husband insisted I look at a picture he had posted to his Facebook account. It would be nice to tell him I can't because I have no account to get into so I can see his.

On the other hand, the photo was funny - a picture of what looks like a campaign sign with a guy's name real big. Underneath in much smaller letters it said "Not running for anything, I just wanted a sign."

in the format @KamaAina. Plus the #hashtag thing; anyone searching for that hashtag can see it.

so if I named a group, e.g., @hairyUglyMen" ... anyone using that term would see it? Cool!

#HairyUglyMen. Each Twitter user has a handle, just as we do at DU, except that in a tweet, it is prefaced with an @ sign, so the software will know it's a handle, kind of like the # before a hashtag.

If you don't have an account, just do a search on google for what you're looking for plus add "twitter" in the search box.

Then click on one of the search results and that should get you into twitter itself.

You can start with me: http://twitter.com/Mr_Scorpio