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Good morning everyone. I have created a twitter profile for our Lois Search. Pls follow and rt and pls ask your friends to do the same. The more people who will share the info, the more likely we will find Lois. @Jim Kilby @Carolyn Webber @John JohnRigler1 Profile name is @Looking4Lois here is a link to the tweet https://twitter.com/Looking4Lois/status/1224325588103634945?s=20
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Id be interested in a summary of how you use TWITTER for genealgical purposes
what are the pros and cons, what are the goals and techniques,
Im looking for a very general summary - and not so much specifcaly what you are doing for LOIS. - how it can be applied in other areas etc.
possibly to [post on Tips and Tricks . . .
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Never really used twitter for gen research, I saw a few news articles about how folks have found lost/missing relatives etc by posting on Twitter so I figured it couldn’t hurt (would be more helpful if I had more followers and more folks would help spread the word) but I’m basically doing everything I can think of to help find Lois
move seen some articles mention reddit as a gen tool as well and of course folks use fb. I had started playing around with flickr a few months ago and found lots of docs and records, but haven’t been able to reproduce that result since lol
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so I never really understood what the "LOIS" thing was all about . . . .
I just noted you mentioned twitter - - so I was wondering how and in what ways you were using it - as I assumed it must be somehow related to genealogy. . .
BTW - please clarify what you meant "haven't been able to produce same results since"
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Ok, so when I was “playing around with flickr”, I don’t remember the search terms or what I did to find the stuff I found, now if I go to Flickr and search by using terms I would normally google or whatever, I still get some results, but the first time I did it, I seem to remember I was getting some really great results... however, the first time I did it, I was using my AppleTv, and haven’t tried it that way since but I don’t see why the results would be different either way. I’m not a Flickr user so I’m not familiar with the basics.
Now for Lois and twitter ... in the @Adoption and Unknown Family Research group, we’ve been trying to help mr @Jim Kilby find his half sister Lois whom he never knew about til several months ago, she was adopted out in 1916/17 ... so that’s Lois... i created a twitter profile and I tweet the same tweet several times a day, I just started this yesterday so I can’t tell you how successful or unsuccessful it has been just yet... basically this is the tweet
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as to twitter . . . that was my whole point
(consider me as someone who knows literally nothing about TWITTER)
How would you explain to a person like that - how twitter helped you accomplish your goal (not so much the details of what your goal was) - but the more general answer of under what circumstances a system like TWITTER - is the right tool in the tool bag of tools)
You understand perfectly what "creating a twitter profile means"
but how would you explain it - to someone who hasn't got a clue what that means.
Thats kind of what I m asking about "can you give a summary" - give a response that explaining very high level that even a person who knew nothing at all about Twitter - would understand - even if tehy were not interested in your specific LOIS case.
I just wonder how many people in the community have goals and needs that could be met by twitter - but since they dont have a clue about what it does - they dont even consider it.
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The best answer I have for you at the moment is twitter reaches more people faster than any other social network. The more you “tweet” the more likely others will see it, and share it and so forth. So when searching for long lost family etc. it’s a good tool to use, it’s free, it only takes a few seconds, and it has the potential to reach millions worldwide... especially if you actually know how to use Twitter (which I don’t really lol) if you know how to use the right hashtags and get others to “retweet” or share. I can’t tell you how it’s helped me achieve my goal or not cause like I said I just started this yesterday
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Yes - those are great points! and I agree 😃
But also be wary of terms that go straight over "old school people's heads"
like hash tag and tweet etc. The world we live in is an incredible thing with technology changing at the speed of light and young people using terms that people of the older generation - don't even have a clue or concept of.
How would a person explain "hashtag" to a person that lived before the Internet even existed? Thats a question that all so often goes totally unanswered when people talk about Twitter.
The world we live in - - - who could have ever imagined it!!!??
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here is a cool video
videos like this can go a very long way in helping the older generation connect with the concepts that are basic to the newer generation
https://www.commoncraft.com/video/twitter
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great example
I wonder though at what point we just get information over-load . . .
I mean I undertstand the great advantage of millions of people (potentially) seeing a tweet - - but when its BILLIONS of people who also want their mesage to also be seen by millions of people - - at some point it becomes an information overflow that no one can realistically handle (the people on the receiving end)
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🤷🏻♀️I dont know🤷🏻♀️... if they don’t want to see something they can block it 😊
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yeh - but conversely - what I was really getting at was that tweeting in and of itself - doesn't magically automatically get tweeted out to billions of people.
If you send a tweet out - - "Hey Im at the Family History Library" - the tweet does NOT get sent out to one million people. Does it only get sent out to people who are "following you" or does it only get sent out to people who are following a "hash tag" - and if so how does one who wishes his tweet would go out to the maximum number of people - how does this person advertise the subject or hash tag - so the maximum number of people that REALLY do want to see it - see it - and those that are not interested in it all all do not see it at all.
Most people would be oblivious to your tweet - so there would be no need for them to block your tweet in the first place.
I guess what I was getting at was there would seem to be a continual "tug of war" - between people who want their tweet to reach as many people as possible
against the people (on the receiving end) who want to keep tier privacy and only receive communications on what they are truly interested in - and avoid spam and junk. This not only applies to twitter - but a multitude of digital communciation methodologies and social media and certainly in the business/advertising world where everyone is trying to make a profit.
Please don't get the wrong idea about my current "fixation" about twitter - and please dont think it has anything do do with you personally
rather - it is just a subject I think many people don't understand - especially those of older generations - and even trying to explain all this is hard when it is just theoretical - and abstract to them - until you actually begin using it - - -- there are so many similar things like this - that people really had no clue of - before the Internet - - and even trying to explain it to people who didnt grow up using the technology and arent using it now - is a huge challenge I think
so the subject of how to communicate discussions on educational topics like this interests and intrigues me.
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yes. Your tweets are only seen by those who follow you, and if they rt, then it’s seen by all who follow them etc. so you are correct, your tweet may not be seen by millions of people, but getting the word out and being persistent doesn’t hurt your odds at all
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I get what your saying... and I can’t explain it lol I’m a novice myself ... like one day i tweeted some random thing I read in the news ... next thing I knew, it had been seen by millions and became a Twitter “moment” I still don’t know what was so special about it or what the heck a “moment” is lol. I’m determined to find Lois, so if my tweet is seen by just a handful of people, that’s a handful more that are aware of the story😊
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Good luck trying to explain some of this stuff to the older generation lol my dad still insists on using a flip phone, has never ever touched a computer and has never ever been on the internet or had email 🤣 and it drives me bananas
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It was a "simpler life" back then - not all this trying to drink from a fire hydrant.
in some ways I understand. . . but some things are just things that people choose not to use - but do have a reasonable understanding of
but TWITTER and HASH TAGS are so "ethereal" its often hard to even explain it sometimes - until you actually use it. and people just use their lingo - which means totally nothing to the non users. - so you end up with these two polar groups - that have no clue the perspective of the other group - sometimes I wish their was more attention to brings these two groups closer together.
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I agree @Dennis J Yancey im 43 and I get lost in most of the social media stuff ... I’ve never ever once used Snapchat, my daughter created an Instagram for me but I don’t use it lol (she does), I got fb many moons ago and used it quite a bit but lost my pw and stopped using it for a few years, so I just created a new one (which I rarely ever sign in) I’ve used twitter to vent here and there and made an account for my little guys YouTube channel but for the most part, I’m more into things like this the FS community where it’s more like I conversation with folks who are guaranteed to have the same interests (genealogy lol). I don’t understand all the Twitter terminology (I’m still sonfused as to what an “impression” is? Lol but Lois has had over 800 of them in the past couple of days so that’s 800 more than we had before 😊
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It seems crazy to me that there were no follow up newspaper articles after that one. Did you try the Montana papers? Or considered that they were never adopted and aged out? I bet they were adopted by parents in another state. Just crazy.
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Did you already chase this lead? OK City Times, 8/3/1916, p.1
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Ty @Rene Greer Williams I think it’s crazy there weren’t any follow ups either. We know Lois and Josephine were adopted separately. @Jim Kilby has been in touch with Josephine’s son @John JohnRigler1 we also know that both girls were adopted before their parents divorce was final in Nov 1917. The divorce papers said they they had been adopted by “good and substantial families” thats it. I was thinking she may have been adopted by a family in another state also, that’s why I was asking about records in that kind of situation in the @Adoption and Unknown Family Research group the other day.
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I’ve read some really crazy stories in those old newspapers. It’s addictive
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Another thing we have to remember is not all newspapers are online ... I live in CT so I don’t have any access to most of this stuff other than what I can find online. Hopefully someone out there will recognize something in that article. And please if anyone here has Twitter, please please retweet as much as you can... even just once will be so helpful and id be super grateful!
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I have seen many successes with adoptees posting on Twitter or other social media. I'm amazed at what can be reconnected. People post old photos with names on them and family members are notified. War medals found in old brief cases make their way back to the veterans family. x24mom, I think this is a useful idea. I hope others will share your post.
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