If you’re participating in the A-Z Challenge, you already know that today is the day for the letter “D.” But did you know that if you use “D is…” in your title and your blog is set up to automatically tweet your post that it doesn’t work?
Try it. Go to Twitter and type a tweet that starts with “D is” without the quotation marks. It will turn your tweet into a message. It’s okay if you type something before the letter D.
Just so you know…
Feel free to re-blog this.
lindaghill.com 
April 5, 2015 at 5:30 pm
Is that what the problem was? Today I couldn’t share a WP shortlink of my own no matter how I tried to send it. Technology is fun! 🙂
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April 6, 2015 at 2:20 pm
I know, right? I tried for at least 10 minutes before I figured it out. 😛 It will happen with “M is” as well.
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April 4, 2015 at 12:43 pm
hmmmm, guess I should go check and see if I had D is in my twitter post this morning.
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April 6, 2015 at 2:17 pm
Yep, and “m” will do it too. 😛
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April 4, 2015 at 12:33 pm
D is for Glitch?
Why would “d” and “m” cause this to happen (I’m not that clued up when it comes to Twitter)?
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April 6, 2015 at 2:15 pm
I have no idea why “d” would do it, though I suspect “m” is for message…
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April 6, 2015 at 4:00 pm
“D” is the notifier to Twitter that you’re writing a direct message to someone. For instance, if someone started a tweet with: d @bduhon why aren’t you doing the a-z challenge, that message would only be read by me.
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April 7, 2015 at 3:09 am
I think I will never understand Twitter!
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April 7, 2015 at 8:52 am
Nope, me neither. 😛
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April 7, 2015 at 9:21 am
Think of it as a giant conversation in which anyone can eavesdrop and join in — 140 characters at a time. I find it awesome as a research tool — find people who are good on a topic you’re interested in and follow them and you instantly have a curated reading list without having to resort to Google. Having to confine yourself to 140 characters is also a great way to fine-tune copywriting. My titles and email subject lines got waaaaay stronger after I started using Twitter 5 years ago.
But, while I like Twitter, I ain’t saying you’ll feel great (or any, really) regret from not using it when on your deathbed.
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April 4, 2015 at 11:18 am
Another reason I don’t tweet.
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April 6, 2015 at 2:06 pm
You mean there are more reasons not to tweet?
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April 6, 2015 at 2:08 pm
I can think of many more reasons not to tweet than I can think of reasons to tweet!
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April 6, 2015 at 2:11 pm
So to tweet or not to tweet is not even a question, eh? 😉 …and now I’ve got that so stuck in my head I can’t even remember what the original quote is. DOH!
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April 4, 2015 at 11:10 am
Bizarre. Thanks for the tip.
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April 6, 2015 at 2:02 pm
No problem. I don’t know if you saw the comments below, but it’s gonna happen with “M is” as well.
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April 6, 2015 at 2:04 pm
Good to know. I’ll rearrange as I did for D. Thanks!
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April 4, 2015 at 11:08 am
I’m tweet free and proud of it!
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April 6, 2015 at 2:00 pm
You’re also blog free… which is something that must be remedied one of these days!
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April 4, 2015 at 10:32 am
I am scared of Twitter……………………. 😦
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April 6, 2015 at 1:58 pm
I’ve been there for over a year now and I’m still not sure how it works. 😛
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April 6, 2015 at 2:28 pm
I refuse to even try!!
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April 4, 2015 at 10:28 am
Just one more reason why I’m glad I didn’t join that challenge. While it was tempting at first, eventually I became Dis-interested in the whole idea.
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April 4, 2015 at 10:47 am
Haha! Very clever. Hopefully this will be the only instance of a glitch. It’s good to know though if there’s any other reason you’d want to start a post with “D is…” 😛
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April 4, 2015 at 11:24 am
You might want to be careful when you get to “M is” – I suspect you might run into a similar glitch.
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April 4, 2015 at 11:32 am
Yep, you’re right! I’ll have to remember that. Thanks!
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April 4, 2015 at 10:21 am
You would think the D would be ok if it wasn’t followed by a person’s ID.
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April 4, 2015 at 10:46 am
It seems to be the word “is” that does it. Weird.
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April 4, 2015 at 9:36 am
How odd!
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April 4, 2015 at 9:37 am
I know! And so many bloggers start their posts with “D is..” today… it’s annoying.
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