Be My Stalker!
Earlier this week I started using the online application Twitter. For those of you unfamiliar with it, Twitter is simply a micro-blogging/current status updating application.
I had originally signed up for Twitter many months ago, but gave up almost immediately after not finding any use for it. In the past weeks however, I have been reading more and more about its usefulness on other online blogs.
I decided to reactivate my account (by simply trying to use it). I am currently only 'following' a few people (meaning receiving other people's status updates by web/text message) and only have a few people following my feed. I am having trouble finding more people to follow, but some of the ones I currently am following are golden (Steven Wright jokes delivered to my phone? Yes please).
Besides getting jokes about French Toast and updates from other interesting people (Seth Godin, John Chow, Barack Obama, and John McCain just to name a few), I've also discovered how useful Twitter is in recording ideas. Often times throughout the day I'll get an idea for a song lyric or a blog post, but end up not writing it down and then never following through with it. With Twitter, I'm able to save ideas by sending a text message which I can read later that evening when I log onto my computer.
Also, I installed the official Twitter application on my Facebook profile, so all my online stalkers can see what I'm currently doing when I update my Twitter page (not really though since I'm rather selective as to who sees certain parts of my profile and who doesn't).
I still have some getting used to with Twitter, but it seems if I keep finding more people to follow then it will prove to be a very useful social application. If you want to read my feed, feel free to follow me at my Twitter page
I had originally signed up for Twitter many months ago, but gave up almost immediately after not finding any use for it. In the past weeks however, I have been reading more and more about its usefulness on other online blogs.
I decided to reactivate my account (by simply trying to use it). I am currently only 'following' a few people (meaning receiving other people's status updates by web/text message) and only have a few people following my feed. I am having trouble finding more people to follow, but some of the ones I currently am following are golden (Steven Wright jokes delivered to my phone? Yes please).
Besides getting jokes about French Toast and updates from other interesting people (Seth Godin, John Chow, Barack Obama, and John McCain just to name a few), I've also discovered how useful Twitter is in recording ideas. Often times throughout the day I'll get an idea for a song lyric or a blog post, but end up not writing it down and then never following through with it. With Twitter, I'm able to save ideas by sending a text message which I can read later that evening when I log onto my computer.
Also, I installed the official Twitter application on my Facebook profile, so all my online stalkers can see what I'm currently doing when I update my Twitter page (not really though since I'm rather selective as to who sees certain parts of my profile and who doesn't).
I still have some getting used to with Twitter, but it seems if I keep finding more people to follow then it will prove to be a very useful social application. If you want to read my feed, feel free to follow me at my Twitter page
0 TrackBacks
Listed below are links to blogs that reference this entry: Be My Stalker!.
TrackBack URL for this entry: http://bertwagner.com/blog/mt-tb.cgi/54
Leave a comment