From the course: Learning Troubleshooting for Web Developers

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Use social media

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Use social media

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- [Instructor] In addition to the platforms I've mentioned, like Stack Overflow or GitHub, you can also leverage social media to find help. Earlier in the course, we looked at some ways to search Google, and one of those ways includes searching social media. So for example, we could search at Twitter and then use a hashtag for something related to web development, like maybe CSS Grid or HTML5. That would show you search results for any Twitter conversation using those hashtags. It's definitely not a guarantee of finding help, but it can help you discover other web developers who work with those languages, which might lead you to some great websites or tutorials. It takes a bit of digging, but it could turn up something useful. Certainly some social media platforms lend themselves to discussion and Q and A better than others. Probably the best one I've found for troubleshooting is Facebook. Some people hate Facebook. I get it, but if you're using Facebook already, it's a good place to…

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