@ad4dcss tweets again -- woo hoo

Hi, if you haven't come across me before my name is Jocelyn (aka @htjoshua). I teach ICT to about 55 pupils with moderate learning difficulties in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, England. I fell into the start-up meeting for AD4DCSS by way of a tweet from Vicki Davis two weeks ago (happy birthday @coolcatteacher). So it seems rather appropriate therefore that my first involvement with AD4DCSS should be by way of setting up the grouptweet we know as @ad4dcss -- and I would like to take this opportunity to explain how @ad4dcss works.

First, if you don't really _get_ Twitter now you may want to watch this cool video.



Now hopefully you see the point of Twitter and certainly it would be a good idea to sign up and follow all your friends at AD4DCSS. Here is where to find them, just click on the follow buttons and I am sure in no time at all a crowd of people will be saying hello.

Finally, what's with the grouptweet...? Basically all you do is follow @ad4dcss and then @ad4dcss will follow you. From that point on, any Twitter direct messages you send to ad4dcss will be retweeted in PUBLIC as if from @ad4dcss -- to all of @ad4dcss's followers.

Here is an example from earlier today.

I saw a tweet from Kate Olson (@kolson29) I thought AD4DCSS people wouldn't want to miss out on.



What I did was to direct message a copy of Kate's message to the grouptweet @ad4dcss.



The direct message arrived at @ad4dcss and grouptweet turned it into a normal tweet as if from @ad4dcss. Of course all the followers of @ad4dcss could see the normal tweet as clear as day.



Good hey....? Mmmm..., almost too good. Don't forget the direct messages to @ad4dcss are turned public almost straight away. This is not the normal convention and some people -- somewhere else I hasten to add -- didn't realise and embarrassed themselves quite badly. Indeed, grouptweeting was off for a while on that account. All is back up and running now (thank you @aaronforgue). But don't forget -- the prior convention might have been for direct message to be a little private -- but @ad4dcss does not keep secrets.