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Dear Twitter people. Lots of us were once Twitter people too. This place will not spoon-feed you. Passive participation doesn’t work here. This is a very active and buzzing place, but unless you FOLLOW people and INTERACT, it will pass you by.

Follow people. Lots of them. You can always remove them later. But really, follow early, follow often.

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Sarah Brown

@Bez Earl Grey, although of late I’ve developed quite the fancy for Yorkshire Tea.

I’m also learning Portuguese, which is very hard work, but rewarding.

And I still do some climbing-adjacent stuff: via ferrata, arborism, that kind of stuff. I just can’t do proper rock climbing because I have early onset #Dupuytrens disease.

#dupuytrens @Bez
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Likely Jan Lukas

*waves hello*

I've just discovered I have #Dupuytrens (the latest in a long line of conditions I've had to manage)

Reaching out to say hello and perhaps chat about things you've learned? (At your discretion -- no pressure!)

I've been learning what I can but do not yet know the larger contours of the condition nor what sort of outright quackery I need to avoid. 😂

#dupuytrens
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Danny Vandal 🥦

@Tomsprints2 After several goes at Twitter the way I found to make it work for me was to treat it like radio. I gradually found some people to follow and let them ‘broadcast’ to me which in turn allowed me to follow more and interact over time. Trying to spend more time over here and kind of going through the same process....
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kæt

@Tomsprints2 I'm not sure it's a twitter thing, I think it's always been a little bit like that in online networks. Even just "likes" are a great step forward from the olden days when you made something and was received with deafening silence, and then six months later multiple people come up to you saying: "I really liked that thing you did".
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Mike Taylor 🦕

Corollary: feel free also to UNfollow early and often. Following is not lifetime commitment or a promise of friendship, it's just wanting to see someone's messages.

For example, I love @doctorow's writing, but unfollowed him when it became apparent there was just too much of it, and it was overwhelming my timeline. It's all good.

@doctorow
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