Tá an-áthas orm go bhfuil doaine gafa le #lnag: Lá Twitter na Gaeilge. GRMMA. Ach feicim chomh maith go bhfuil cuid mhaith eile amuigh ansin agus gan aon ró-thaithí agaibh ar Twitter féin. Ná bíodh aon eagla oraibh – tá sé thar a bheith éasca le n-úsáid.
Téigí go dtí http://twitter.com, agus cláraigí.
Ansin beidh 140 carachtar agaibh leis an gciest “céard ‘tá á dhéanamh agat anois?” a fhreagairt. Agus sin é. Sin an Tweet déanta.
Tá sé furast Tweets dhaoine eile ar Twitter a leanúint chomh maith, agus leanfaidh siadsan bhur gcinn.
Mar thús, is féidir mé féin a aimsiú anseo, http://twitter.com/antsiogghlas, agus a leanúint más mian libh. Lean freisin na daoine atá do mo leanúint cheana mar tá suim sa Ghaeilge léirithe acu-siúd chomh maith.
Sin é. Cuirigí “#gael” sa Tweet má tá Gaeilge á h-úsáid agaibh.
Féachaigí an físeán seo, “Twitter in plain English”, (níl ceann i nGaeilge shimplí go fóillin): http://www.vimeo.com/757146
Agus seo “Why I Love Twitter” leis an líon-ghúrú, Tim O’Reilly: http://radar.oreilly.com/2008/11/why-i-like-twitter.html.
Ciarán
I’m delighted that people are so keen to take part in #lnag: Lá Twitter na Gaeilge, but I see that there are some of you out there who’re not familiar with Twitter, and may be a little put off. Don’t be worrying – it’s extremely easy to use.
All you have to do is go to http://twitter.com, and sign up. Then you’ll have 140 characters to answer the question ‘what are you doing?’ And that’s it. Hit ‘post’ and you’ve Tweeted.
It’s easy then to follow other people’s Tweets, and they’ll follow yours (mostly).
To get you started, you could start following my Tweets at http://twitter.com/antsiogghlas, and then maybe follow the others who already follow me (since you’ll know that they too are interested in Irish).
Make sure to include ”#gael” in your tweet if you’re tweeting as gaeilge. (I’ll explain what that is in the next post).
You can watch a short video on how twitter works here ”Twitter in plain English”: http://www.vimeo.com/757146
And, for a whole lot more detail, here’s web guru, Tim O’Reilly’s ‘Why I Love Twitter: http://radar.oreilly.com/2008/11/why-i-like-twitter.html
#lnag shona
ciarán