Snoqualme Falls
"Fill In The Blank"
We've been plannin' this weekend for a week and a half
Hope you ain't thinkin' that we're movin' too fast
This trip can be whatever you want it to
I'll pick where we go and you can pick what we do
We could
In the water, in the truck
On a blanket 'til the sun comes up
With each other on the river bank
Yeah I'll leave it up to you, baby fill in the blank
I know a little spot thirty miles outta town
We can do what we want, won't be nobody around
I love hanging with your friends and your family too
But there's some things that only two people should do
We could
In the water, in the truck
On a blanket 'til the sun comes up
With each other on the river bank
Yeah I'll leave it up to you, baby fill in the blank
We could
In the water, in the truck
On a blanket 'til the sun comes up
With each other on the river bank
Yeah I'll leave it up to you, baby
We could
To some music real slow
'Til we can't no more
If the clouds roll in we could, in the rain
Yeah I'll leave it up to you, baby fill in the blank
Yeah the options are endless, baby fill in the blank
Oh Yeah
We've been plannin' this weekend for a week and a half
Hope you ain't thinkin' that we're movin' too fast
This trip can be whatever you want it to
I'll pick where we go and you can pick what we do
We could
In the water, in the truck
On a blanket 'til the sun comes up
With each other on the river bank
Yeah I'll leave it up to you, baby fill in the blank
I know a little spot thirty miles outta town
We can do what we want, won't be nobody around
I love hanging with your friends and your family too
But there's some things that only two people should do
We could
In the water, in the truck
On a blanket 'til the sun comes up
With each other on the river bank
Yeah I'll leave it up to you, baby fill in the blank
We could
In the water, in the truck
On a blanket 'til the sun comes up
With each other on the river bank
Yeah I'll leave it up to you, baby
We could
To some music real slow
'Til we can't no more
If the clouds roll in we could, in the rain
Yeah I'll leave it up to you, baby fill in the blank
Yeah the options are endless, baby fill in the blank
Oh Yeah
Have you heard? All the world’s a-twitter! Twitter is a tool that you can use to send and receive short, 140-character messages from your friends, from the organizations you care about, from the businesses you frequent, from the publications you read, or from complete strangers who share (or don’t share) your interests.
As a user of Twitter, you choose whose updates you want to receive — which people you want to follow. In turn, other users can elect to follow your updates. You can send messages publicly for the entire Twitter community, semi-publicly to users whom you approve to receive your messages, or privately from one user to another. You can view these messages, called tweets (sometimes called updates), either on the Internet or on your cellphone.
Twitter has changed and enhanced the way that people communicate with each other, with brands and companies, and with social movements and initiatives. Twitter has empowered users to raise money for people in need, coordinate rescue efforts in the wake of a natural disaster, and alert authorities to emergencies and illegal activities both domestic and abroad.
Skeptical of what you can say in 140 characters? The first paragraph of the Introduction weighs in at 41 characters. This paragraph? 137. You may also find, over time, that you communicate more effectively and that your writing becomes shorter and more to the point. You can say a lot within very little space; and because it takes only a little time to read and update, you may be surprised about how much value you, your friends, and your family can extract from Twitter.
We, the authors (Laura, Michael, and Leslie), aren’t employees, representatives, or shareholders in Twitter. The opinions that we give in this blog represent what’s worked for us and our networks, but not necessarily the Twitter world at large. We’ve been on Twitter for quite a while, and we have a good sense about how people are using it. But Twitter is a living, breathing, and constantly changing dynamic community. Much of Twitter’s value comes from the ecosystem of tools built by others to work together with Twitter. Hundreds of these new tools launch every month. Twitter itself may change its feature set, its privacy features, or general direction overnight, which changes the way that people use it.
In fact, since the first edition, Twitter has released a number of enhancements to its interface that make it even easier and more accessible to interact with the community. Although the layout and the exact location of everything may change around a bit, the basics of Twitter likely will always be the same. After you understand how the service works, you can pretty easily find any feature that may have moved since the publication of this blog. Note: While things change, keep in touch with or our personal accounts (@pistachio, @gruen, and @leslie) for the latest on our thoughts about Twitter.
In this edition, we’ve updated our screenshots and how-to’s to reflect the latest changes in the Twitter.com interface. (However, do remember that Twitter is an Internet product and is subject to change at any time, so please use our guides as guides, not the be-all and end-all of the Twitter experience.) In addition to feature changes, we also included a smattering of new case studies and examples that we thought you’d find relevant in understanding how the world has adjusted to Twitter. We reached out to some of the companies, not-for-profits, and individuals who we feel are using Twitter in innovative and surprising ways, so look out for them in sidebars as you go through the blog.
Lastly, the Twitter For Beginner, 2nd Edition, author team has had a few changes: Leslie, previously knows as @geechee_girl, is now known as @leslie. Laura still goes by @pistachio, and is the Founder and CEO of
oneforty (or @oneforty on Twitter). Michael now protects his tweets out of suppressed teenage rebellion and for no otherwise discernable reason.
We wrote this blog to help more people understand, try out, and benefit from the incredible results and opportunities that can happen on Twitter.
When we released the first edition, many considered Twitter a fad. However, Twitter’s been changing lives and businesses for years now. Major news organizations and companies have adopted Twitter profiles and accounts to interact with their communities 24/7. Twitter can be fun, productive, supportive, and surprisingly powerful.
Just ask Laura. Before she “got” Twitter, she was practically home bound with two kids under two, trying to rebuild her personal and professional network in a whole new city. Twitter has been like a generous ocean. Treasured new friends, mentors, and incredible opportunities continually wash up on her beach. After 12 months of meeting incredible people and all her business leads, along with speaking at events all around the world, Laura finally took the hint and refocused her entire career on Twitter itself, to help others experience the benefits of mobile social networking. In 2009, she founded OneForty (oneforty.com), a company dedicated to enhancing users’ Twitter experiences by providing Twitter with its missing App Store.
In this blog, we stick to a few conventions to help with readability. Whenever you have to enter text, we show it in bold, so you can easily see it. Monofont text denotes an e-mail address or Web site URL. We capitalize the names of Twitter pages and features — such as Settings. Numbered lists guide you through tasks that you must complete in order, from top to bottom; you can read bulleted lists in any order you like (from top to bottom, bottom to top, or any other way).
Note: Screenshots in this blog show you what the interface was like in spring 2010, and significant changes took place four times during the writing of this blog. If you ever run into Michael and he seems a bit agitated when you mention Twitter’s ever-changing interface, it’s because he had to re-shoot screenshots and rewrite descriptions three times each edition. He could certainly use a hug.
