A Twitter Explination
Okay, so I use Twitter all the time. Think of Twitter as a mini blog. People blog every once in a while simply cause it takes quite a bit of thinking. By creating mini blogs you can give simple updates about what you are doing and what you are interested in.
The part that makes Twitter interesting to me is the ability to subscribe to other peoples Twitter, and people being able to subscribe to mine. Say I have a question about blogs and I know there are a couple people that follow my Twitter who are bloggers. I can simply post a question and anywhere from a minute to a couple hours those people have answered my question.
To me it’s not about about just posting what I’m doing. It’s the giant resource it provides. The other day I had a question about the principles of designing a billboard. I posted a question and within minutes a person in Chicago who is a professional billboard designer gave me a link to a 30 PDF on designing billboards.
If you aren’t getting anything out of Twitter then you aren’t using it right. It’s being used by millions of people around the world, and with them as a whole it becomes a resource better then Wikipedia.
