Twitter and Tumblr, or Things Wot I Don't Understand

[flaming_muse]

I've been using Twitter for a while now to follow various famous people, because I got really annoyed reading them through RSS through LJ. I've been using the Twitter web interface, but for some reason it doesn't show @replies on the main page, which kind of defeats the purpose if you want to read, say, their responses to people's questions when

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[justhuman]

I look forward to hearing your discoveries. I know that some people are using twitter to pass along fic recs or links to their own stories. I started a Twitter because one of the cons I was attending was posting updates that way.

Shortly thereafter, I was at a con panel where people reminded me that Facebook, Twitter, etc... don't have the same level of privacy that one can create on LJ. So I've been thinking about recreating the twitter account under something less close to my LJ name to slow down the back tracing.

[flaming_muse]

Yeah, my twitter has nothing to do with my LJ presence at all and is under a different name; my Tumblr is entirely fan-related and has no contact with real famous people, so that's related to my LJ name. My Facebook is entirely RL and connects to neither. I am ALL ABOUT BOUNDARIES.

But I still cannot figure out Tumblr for the life of me, at least not yet. Like, I kind of get the concept at this point as separate from something like LJ, but...

I really hope people can shed some light. I'm seriously trying to figure these things out, and I know I'm using Tumblr wrong. I feel like the Twitter thing ought to be a setting I can't find, but so far no luck.

[yasminke]

I use the sidebar of Flock (a browser) but it's not being supported anymore.

Mashable suggests Twitterrific (which is for the Mac, I think). There's also Tweetdeck.

Don't you see what your friends have posted on Tumblr's dashboard? If not, then I'm doing something really wrong. Which would not surprise me, 'cuz I don't get Tumblr.

[flaming_muse]

I was thinking Twitterific, since I'm doing this stuff on my laptop, which is a Mac; I've seen people using it. I also downloaded a different one for my iPhone, can't remember the name, but I've seen people posting with it,too. The @replies thing is so frustrating to me.

[yasminke]

Yeah. Since you're on a Mac, you can probably still get Flock and use the sidebar. I can see replies of people I'm following even if I don't follow the addressee. It is kind of awkward to follow however.

[flaming_muse]

Hmm. I'll keep that in mind. Thanks! :)

[wesleysgirl]

I have nooooo answers for you. I am clueless.

[flaming_muse]

I don't understaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand.

[fitofpique]

Your tracked tags on tumblr appear on your Dashboard page, in the right-hand sidebar, under a heading that says something like Tags I Follow. You just click on each individual tag and it takes you to another page that shows, for example, everything tagged Benedict Cumberbatch. Easy!

[fitofpique]

Oops, the heading is actually just Tracked Tags!

[flaming_muse]

I think you shamed it into working, because there were no tags in the right sidebar this morning, and now they are there. O.O

But yay!

And I shall have to track Benedict Cumberbatch, because, you know, it's Benedict Cumberbatch.

[shetiger]

You don't see @replies (when the tweet begins with the @) unless you follow both people. Unless the person puts something before that @, you're going to have to go to the person's page when they're having a Q&A.

[flaming_muse]

Okay, that's annoying but makes some sense. Bleh. At least I'm not overlooking something really obvious.