Learn to Love Twitter 4 comments
Recently I signed up for Twitter at the urging of a colleague. After figuring out what it was all about, I found that I really liked it. Unfortunately it took a little nudging to get me fully understand what was going on.
This is a very short explanation of Twitter:
Think of facebook status updates, but 160 max characters and more frequent. You subscribe to friend’s tweets (the name for the updates) and in turn they subscribe to yours. You can get all of the updates through your phone, but it is turned off by default. You can send tweets (updates) from your phone or from a computer. You don’t type out every literal thing you do all day long. Instead you only put something interesting, funny or important.
Interesting - “I just missed Jared at subway today.” (true, but a story for another day)
Funny - “pandemic has shut down the office.” (everyone got obsessed with the flash game)
Important - “drinking at McCarthys.” (that way friends can meet up with you)
It helps you kill time and keep up with what your friends are doing. Wired has a great article on making tweets interesting that everyone should read, you can check it out here. At the very least I recommend trying it for a week and seeing if you like it.
Below is some sample tweets from my feed today:
hamby86 - this is creepy about 3 hours ago
vebah - rediscovering twitter… thanks for another distraction libra about 8 hours ago
stevebanfield - good to see my LA twitter contacts posting. just seeing the tweets lets me know they are ok. up here in san mateo didn’t feel a thing about 8 hours ago
stevebanfield - CNN’s update on quake http://snurl.com/378bo about 8 hours ago
cld77 - I miss my own bed about 9 hours ago
4 Responses to 'Learn to Love Twitter'
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I saw the street cred article as well and that convinced me. Everyone should seriously give it a try for at least a couple of days.
It has some really practicable applications.
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The name of this post should have been: Dr. Strangelibra: OR how I learned to stop worrying and love twitter.
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interesing
I just started using twitter on my iphone after reading the article in Wired this month (I’m trying to up my online street cred, haha). I like it but it does require a new way of thinking for me. Not only do I have to remember to detail what I’m doing on Twitter, I also have to make it a little interesting. Rock on.