Tweet Tweet - Twitter Twitter November 26 2008
Titled after a saying by my good buddy “Dutch”, this post will focus on the social networking tool that is “Twitter.”
I first stumbled onto Twitter some time ago however the recent resurgence of social digital networking has reignited my interest in this tool. Meg Parker’s one hour social networking seminar was the catalyst to re-examine Twitter.
To summarize Twitter, it is a simple online site where you can write short 140 character headlines or descriptions of what you are doing or what really turns your crank at that moment in time. It is sort of like a short blog post that can be written and published instantly. Instantly is really the key point here. You can publish from anywhere in the world on a variety of devices your thoughts second by second.
You are probably asking yourself “So What?” Well in the same vein as my “I’m LinkedIn - So What?” post, I will try to extol the virtues of Twitter. One example could be you want to know what is happening at an event (e.g. press conference, trial, trade show, key note speech, etc.) but you are not there. Well there is a good chance that someone else IS there and they are Twitter aware. These people are your gateway to you knowing what is happening second by second. Well the important stuff anyway.
Twitter allows you to “follow” active Twitter users that you value an opinion from. This adds to the complexity of the social networking side of the tool. It becomes the Who am I following, who is following who, and the real candy, who is following me. It hasn’t been 24 hours since I started following other Twitter users that now I find eight people now following me! Why I wonder? However they are and now the pressure is on.
In summary Twitter may not be for everyone, but for the near future let us keep an open mind and discover how we can leverage this light-weight tool to imrpove our digital networking experiences.
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