I'd like to get help with using these from my I phone since its with me most of the time.
From: ati-boun...@moblind.org [mailto:ati-boun...@moblind.org] On Behalf Of Gretchen Maune Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2012 4:06 PM To: ati@moblind.org Subject: [ATI] twitter and facebook and such Hi! I hope I can provide more help later with this/these topics, but too much on my plate right this sec. I did read this though and wanted to throw in a few cents while I had a min to spare. I use both of these a great deal, and twitter more so than facebook. I have the accounts linked so that when I post on twitter, which I prefer to do, my tweets show up on my facebook as well, and so, while I get on twitter anywhere from 1 to 4 times a day, I only trudge around on facebook approx 1 to 3 times a week. I do fairly well with these bc I used them before I went blind a few years ago, and so I can picture how they're laid out, and I knew how they worked back then and how things looked, etc (sorry, that was a bit redundant). But, yes, it is true that both sites, as well as sites I also use like myspace, have all gone through many changes, esp. facebook. It often happens that a month after you discover what a handful of unlabeled links do on a section of facebook, their evil programmers will revamp the site again and your starting from square one. Using facebook with JAWS, (and, I'm told from many of my frustrated sighted friends, using it with sight), requires a great amount of patience, (which I often don't have, but I use it anyway bc way too many people are on it to afford boycotting it.) Twitter is much better, (and when I'm saying this, I'm not really talking about the actual www.twitter.com page), for a variety of reasons. Some of these being less games, less pics, less people posting about completely inconsequential things. While I do recognize the great benefits of the quitter app, and I know a plethora of blind folks who use it, I personally prefer and recommend www.easychirp.com (formerly known as accessible twitter, but they were forced to change their name). It is not something you download, it is simply an alternative website interface for twitter. I prefer it over quitter bc quitterr is there 24/7 basically, always ready for you to check out your twitter feed, and always ready for you to tweet, i.e. always there to distract you from work. Having easychirp, a page you actively have to navigate to and sign in and such, keeps twitter from being the distracting time suck for me that it could be. I've used accessible twitter/easy chirp for years now, and love it. For the iPhone, I, and most of the other blind folks I know on twitter, recommend using the app tweetlist. I've tried some others, and I definitely prefer it over the other twitter apps that are out right now. Ok, off to work! -Gretchen www.twitter.com/gmaune
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