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Post by showgirl on Mar 27, 2020 5:20:40 GMT
Putting the . before the handle ensures your followers will see it. People do it because they know they will get a faster response if the company wants to avoid the bad publicity of a service failure going viral. It does often work. If a company is doing a really bad job their social media team will be getting lots of complaints so will prioritise the really visible ones. I would reserve it for when attempts to fix things more quietly have already failed though. I'd never heard of that and would find it useful when companies/organisations simply don't reply to a reasonable question or concern. If they use Twitter they should be prepared to respond to polite and legitimate enquiries. They should also consider the impression created by failure to reply as some are quick enough to promote what they want followers to hear but communication should be a two-way process.
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Post by londonpostie on Mar 27, 2020 5:42:47 GMT
I have a few animal ones, as well. This was really lovely:
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Post by londonpostie on Mar 27, 2020 10:01:54 GMT
I just opened up Twitter today and the first two things I read were a requirement from central Gov that LAs submit proposals to house all homeless by the weekend, and an apology from Mike Ashley, effectively to the country.
We are truly in the most extraordinary of times
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Post by kathryn on Mar 27, 2020 14:04:07 GMT
Twitter has its bad points, it's true - but how else would we get to see things like this?!
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Post by 49thand8th on Mar 27, 2020 16:15:59 GMT
This is a fun follow, too.
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Post by david on Mar 31, 2020 10:45:58 GMT
I don't have a Twitter account myself but I have bookmarked a few Theatre based feeds. Sometimes you come across some fantastic posts which bring a smile to your face.
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Post by david on Apr 10, 2020 18:36:47 GMT
A great one I just found -
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Post by talkingheads on Apr 10, 2020 18:41:50 GMT
For all it's faults Twitter has many more positives than negatives. For example, I am a huge fan of Austentatious and they did a live Tweet along with the BBC Pride and Prejudice yesterday. Lots of fun, got to socialise for a few hours and have some laughs.
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Post by Jan on Apr 13, 2020 14:27:05 GMT
For all it's faults Twitter has many more positives than negatives. For example, I am a huge fan of Austentatious and they did a live Tweet along with the BBC Pride and Prejudice yesterday. Lots of fun, got to socialise for a few hours and have some laughs. Twitter is a curious environment. I use it to keep up to date with fringe theatre and so on and it is very useful. Journalists also use it as a medium for exchanging information and data which can be useful. However, in other areas it is an absolute sewer of abuse coming from all the most extreme and ignorant people from all sides of the political spectrum. For this latter reason alone I tend towards the idea that people should be required to register with their real names when using it which would somewhat attenuate (but not eliminate) this.
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Post by Dawnstar on Apr 14, 2020 21:48:43 GMT
I am always careful on Twitter only to tag in creatives or performers when I am making positive comments. Unfortunately someone replied to a comment of mine, which said I wasn't keen on an opera production, & tagged in the director. So I'm now getting tweets from the director, who is annoyed with me. Hell.
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Post by Forrest on Apr 14, 2020 22:00:47 GMT
Dawnstar, I have to admit, I find the situation you describe a tiny bit funny. I mean, I understand that the person may be feeling a bit disheartened by your negative tweets/opinion, but - as both a director, and a grown up - they should learn to accept criticism, too, especially if it's thoughtful and constructive (and from your posts here, I find it hard to imagine you'd go around mindlessly bashing people on Twitter). They did their best, but there's not a single production that will be to everyone's liking; no need to get annoyed, and especially no need to try to persuade the other person (you) that they're wrong for not liking it.
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Post by Dawnstar on Apr 14, 2020 22:07:09 GMT
I'm now both amused & baffled to discover, via some back & forth, that he doesn't actually mind that I didn't like the production, he minds that I suggested that a trait of it that I disliked might be due to him doing improv. I can't really grasp why that should be considered an insult.
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Post by CG on the loose on Apr 14, 2020 22:18:15 GMT
I'm now both amused & baffled to discover, via some back & forth, that he doesn't actually mind that I didn't like the production, he minds that I suggested that a trait of it that I disliked might be due to him doing improv. I can't really grasp why that should be considered an insult. I just read the thread - he does seem rather determined to be peeved with you. I'm equally baffled as to why!
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Post by Dawnstar on Apr 14, 2020 22:52:37 GMT
I just read the thread - he does seem rather determined to be peeved with you. I'm equally baffled as to why! I hope I've managed to make it more positive by asking what was his reasoning & have had some interesting tweets in reply. It is interesting to be able to engage with creatives via social media when they're not annoyed with you!
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Post by 49thand8th on Apr 14, 2020 23:03:20 GMT
I am always careful on Twitter only to tag in creatives or performers when I am making positive comments. Unfortunately someone replied to a comment of mine, which said I wasn't keen on an opera production, & tagged in the director. So I'm now getting tweets from the director, who is annoyed with me. Hell. Snitch-tagging is THE WORST. If you had wanted to tag someone, you would have. It's not up to the repliers.
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Post by david on May 19, 2020 16:30:26 GMT
From the National Theatre -
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Post by TallPaul on Jul 6, 2020 15:08:21 GMT
I think Twitter is wonderful. If it didn't exist, the so-called European Culture Editor of the New York Times would have to use another medium to make a complete ass of himself.
I strongly suspect he now regrets mocking the great affection the British have for panto. Maybe he should stick to world renowned German theatre instead. 😉
@mattandersonnyt
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Post by sf on Jul 6, 2020 15:10:30 GMT
The thing about Twitter: you get out of it what you put into it. If you go there looking for negativity, that is what you will find.
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Post by Jon on Jul 6, 2020 16:16:53 GMT
I think Twitter is wonderful. If it didn't exist, the so-called European Culture Editor of the New York Times would have to use another medium to make a complete ass of himself. I strongly suspect he now regrets mocking the great affection the British have for panto. Maybe he should stick to world renowned German theatre instead. 😉 @mattandersonnyt I sometimes think people make a rod for their own back by having control of their twitter handles, there are too many examples to name of people who engage tweet before brain.
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Post by xanady on Jul 7, 2020 18:09:24 GMT
Agree with sf...following people like Father Maher from Sheffield Cathedral for example is very inspirational and often very chastening. His thought for the day stuff is always interesting...todays’ is ‘Search for the best in everyone! Seek it out and then celebrate it!’ Also when anniversaries come along Twitter is a reminder of times gone by.An example is that today would have been the great Jon Pertwee’s 101st birthday and I have spent the afternoon reminiscing with people like me,who had met him fleetingly and wonderfully,those like Phil Newman who actually worked with him. So thumbs up to Twitter as long as you look for the positives.
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Post by theglenbucklaird on Jul 8, 2020 7:48:28 GMT
Agree with sf...following people like Father Maher from Sheffield Cathedral for example is very inspirational and often very chastening. His thought for the day stuff is always interesting...todays’ is ‘Search for the best in everyone! Seek it out and then celebrate it!’ Also when anniversaries come along Twitter is a reminder of times gone by.An example is that today would have been the great Jon Pertwee’s 101st birthday and I have spent the afternoon reminiscing with people like me,who had met him fleetingly and wonderfully,those like Phil Newman who actually worked with him. So thumbs up to Twitter as long as you look for the positives. Yeah but sf has now killed the thread if it is your own fault that Twitter is rubbish
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Post by kathryn on Jul 8, 2020 8:07:41 GMT
Has anyone else had an experience on Twitter a bit like this?
Random Tweeter in response to story about theatre sector needing government support: Theatre is too elitist, expensive and inaccessible, and that’s why the sector is struggling. It shouldn’t get money, the real problem is ticket prices. Me: There is a whole pandemic thing going on at the moment, y’know, the sector is usually profitable and half the population went to a show last year. Random Tweeter: We’ve loved watching streamed theatre from home over lockdown. Theatres should do more of that! They should set up some form of subscription service - I’d definitely pay for that! Me: Great! Here’s a link to an article about 5 theatre streaming services you can subscribe to. Enjoy! Random Tweeter: *Totally ignoring previous tweet* They just don’t want theatre to be accessible to everyday people!
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Post by dontdreamit on Jul 8, 2020 9:47:49 GMT
Has anyone else had an experience on Twitter a bit like this? Random Tweeter in response to story about theatre sector needing government support: Theatre is too elitist, expensive and inaccessible, and that’s why the sector is struggling. It shouldn’t get money, the real problem is ticket prices. Me: There is a whole pandemic thing going on at the moment, y’know, the sector is usually profitable and half the population went to a show last year. Random Tweeter: We’ve loved watching streamed theatre from home over lockdown. Theatres should do more of that! They should set up some form of subscription service - I’d definitely pay for that! Me: Great! Here’s a link to an article about 5 theatre streaming services you can subscribe to. Enjoy! Random Tweeter: *Totally ignoring previous tweet* They just don’t want theatre to be accessible to everyday people! 🤔 Yep 🙄 And one at the weekend where I pointed out that theatre tickets can be cheap and accessible, and they still tried to turn it around to say that theatre isn’t accessible to most people. The cheapest ticket I had (other than some papered shows) was £9.50. I saw around 50 shows last year and only paid over £25/30 for 3 of them.
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Post by crowblack on Jul 8, 2020 10:07:25 GMT
Yep 🙄 And one at the weekend where I pointed out that theatre tickets can be cheap and accessible, and they still tried to turn it around to say that theatre isn’t accessible to most people. The cheapest ticket I had (other than some papered shows) was £9.50. I saw around 50 shows last year and only paid over £25/30 for 3 of them. Firstly, I think Twitter is an ever-increasingly-nasty cesspit and I hope to high heaven it doesn't represent mainstream thought, but I do think these past few weeks have been a bit of a rude awakening to theatremakers about how theatre comes across. It has looked increasingly like an elite activity, when so many high-profoile actors are drawn from public schools and wealthy backgrounds, and - particularly - when the sort of hight profile, famous-person-from-Game-of-Thrones type casting that gets 'ordinary' people interested in booking a show has such eye-watering prices. When I was living in London in the 2000s, pre-theatre-internet and before I knew the workarounds for cheap tickets, I was very conscious, sitting up in the gods with a sh*t view, of the way mainstream (London) theatre made you feel poor.
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Post by vickyg on Jul 8, 2020 11:08:59 GMT
I deleted twitter at the beginning of the pandemic and have looked at it a handful of times since when I have searched for a particular person who I knew would have tweeted some information I needed. I thought I would miss it, but it can be such an overwhelming place and particularly at an often overwhelming time I'm glad not to have easy access.
I don't think the average person realises how accessible theatre is. ROH seats for £5, £10 perfectly good seats in many theatres. I very rarely pay more than £20 for a ticket and on the vast majority of occasions it's just not necessary. I have no desire to argue with people who equate being too lazy to look for cheap tickets with their not being available. There are of course people for whom £10 is a stretch too far but for a lot of people it would be as easy as swapping a couple of after work drinks or a bottle of supermarket wine for a theatre ticket.
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Post by kathryn on Jul 8, 2020 11:22:30 GMT
Yeah, it’s the wilful ignorance that is annoying. Fair enough to not know because you’ve never been told .
When you have just told someone how they can do the thing that they claim they want to do (access cheap or even free tickets, subscribe to a theatre streaming service) and they just ignore you to continue complaining that they can’t do it.
I had one woman who complained about ticket prices eventually admit that she didn’t live within 50 miles of a theatre. Well, then, it’s not the ticket price that’s the barrier, is it? You wouldn’t be able to go even if I paid for your ticket and your travel, because you can’t/don’t want to fit the travelling involved into your schedule.
It’s like me complaining about being unfit but at the same time not actually wanting to put any time or effort into exercising!
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Post by crowblack on Jul 8, 2020 12:02:02 GMT
I had one woman who complained about ticket prices eventually admit that she didn’t live within 50 miles of a theatre. Well, then, it’s not the ticket price that’s the barrier, is it? You wouldn’t be able to go even if I paid for your ticket and your travel, because you can’t/don’t want to fit the travelling involved into your schedule. This would be less of an issue if top-notch shows with top-notch casts toured the regions, like they once did, but they don't. Even NT Live - the theatre equivalent of Skyping your relatives rather than visiting in person - is £24 at my local Picturehouse. And London's excellence is funded by everyone: "Department for Culture, Media and Sport and Arts Council funding to the arts is heavily skewed to people in London, with them benefiting to the tune of £69 per head compared with £4.58 in other English regions." (Guardian, 2015). Steps are supposedly being taken to redress this massive imbalance but it has not been quick enough, and we do not have a system like the one I've heard of (through this board) on the continent, where theatre tickets in major cities include subsidised travel costs for those outside that city.
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Post by clair on Jul 8, 2020 12:02:26 GMT
Quite frankly I don't get involved in those conversations on twitter - I don't follow too many people, will mute or stop following those who get annoying and can't see the point of trying to argue with anyone in a limited number of words.
Yes, there are ways of finding cheaper tickets and so on but then it's all the additional costs - my parents went to see something with friends and although the ticket price wasn't too bad it cost them over £10 to park while they were there - no easy public transport route for them even though a local theatre. They really have to pick and choose carefully as they have limited income. Also accessible covers many things such as actual access for those with mobility needs (yes most theatres have massively improved on this but here's still the getting there and back to consider) and transport (many places outside big cities have cut services so the last bus is before the end of a performance). Then again there are so many people who have been brought up to believe that 'theatre isn't for the likes of us' by parents who either weren't interested or couldn't afford it and who are intimidated by the idea of going - far easier to blame it on ticket prices than to say they're scared of unknown territory.
I love theatre however right now even if they were open I couldn't afford to go - not even at a £10 ticket - due to paycuts already in place and redundancies looming and sadly I think there are going to be many more people in this situation as we get to the end of the year. Some people complaining about it being for the elite may well be worrying about how to pay the rent and won't take into account all the thousands of people in the industry in the same boat, all they'll see are the big names who don't have that worry.
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Post by Jon on Jul 8, 2020 12:04:48 GMT
Twitter is full of people who you would actively avoid in real life.
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Post by crowblack on Jul 8, 2020 12:37:32 GMT
Twitter is full of people who you would actively avoid in real life. Unfortunately too many "decision makers" and "gatekeepers" in the arts, media, publishing etc. listen to the loud shouting voices on Twitter rather than the people who just go around getting on with their lives. It feels like the Roman Coliseum, thumbs up or thumbs down. Today, they're throwing Jodie comer to the lions because of who she's dating: maybe we'll have to go back to a situation like early Hollywood where stars' real lives were completely hidden and they were given invented names, backgrounds and lifestyles so they'd accord with fandom's fantasies.
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