I took part last night in the first #folksyhour. It was fairly frantic but great fun. I think it will get better the longer it continues and as more people come to realise the benefit. Today I shall work on making connections with the people who retweeted and favourited some of my tweets and checkout the shops of other people involved.
Bee
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I took part last night, but had my daughter helping, I am not sure how to link from Twitter so was happy to retweet and favourite where I could. I did learn more about using twitter though, but no sales or increase in views obviously lol
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Nah, no sales.
I forgot about FB, I should have added a link. Il do that next week.
No sale for me either, but I discovered lots of lovely people and shops I hadnt seen before.
I really enjoyed it, and the time flew by, but yes it was very frantic.
Karen
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Yes I agree it went so fast and I saw items not seen before, but how do you then go back and find their shop. I saw lovely items on photos but when I clicked on them I just saw a larger photo - sorry I am a bit of a technofeeb Rachel
Rachel @Glehcar I think at the beginning of the hour Folksy suggested we introduce ourselves and add a shop link. It was too busy at the time to look properly at all shops, but today was easier and II had a very pleasant time going back to look more carefully and followed people whoād re-tweeted or favourited my tweets. Think itāll get easier when we used to it 
oh tut Bee how daft am I (dont answer that) I didnt know you could go back - I will go and have a look now
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My lips are zipped LOL! In any case you canāt be as daft as me! 
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I was out last night but Iām hoping to search through the hashtag later this evening.
Just a little reminder that itās FolksyHour between 8-9pm on Twitter tonight!
It would be lovely to see you all there!
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Meanwhile, randomly, thereās a sewing hashtag trending! - #sewingpop
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I will be there! As I am just reopening my shop on here will be good to be a bit more visible!
Do a search for #FolksyHour on your twitter page, then all the tweets that had that hastag in them will show up. Hopefully that way you can re-find the lovely things you saw 
Clicking on a photograph will enlarge it, if you click on that it will take you to the users twitter page. Best thing to do is click on the shop/personās user name, this should give you an option to follow them etc. Join in again tonight and give it a try 
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@Squinty Also useful if you canāt make it tonight 
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Thank you @Squinty I will give that a go
I went on Twitter for a Folksy hour and didnāt find it useful. Just people listing their makes. Wouldnāt it be better to have a theme to discuss like bloggers and networking hours do?
There were some Qs Folksy asked so that it didnāt become just a ālisting makesā bomb. I took part in that but only in the last half hour as was late getting on Twitter. Was good fun 
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I missed those! It was very busy.
Missed it tonight.
I agree that qās from Camilla are hugely important to stop it becoming spammy, it worked well last week.
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It did move quick, was just about keeping up!
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