Giving Twitter another try

Following on Lucky's post - I'm giving Twitter another try. I used to think that micro-posts like "I'm riding the train home from work" were kind of pointless- but I've since been following a few Twitter feeds, and it is kind of fascinating to get some insight into people's every day happenings. I've posted the applet in my blog sidebar ---->

Link to me here.
lucky760 says...

Oh yeah, I didn't even include my link last time. Follow me here. (Private by default because I kept getting hit by spammers.)

The only real use I see myself getting out of it personally is looking back in a couple years and recalling what was going on in my life.

I guess I could see it being more interesting in the short term if you had a lot of followers or were following lots of others.

dotdude says...

You don't have to follow people who follow you. Also, you do have the ability to block people if you need to.

I suggest checking the Tweets people post to decide. Maybe they post worthwhile article or site links. Maybe they share funny/entertaining links. Perhaps they found a cool video that is Sift worthy. It depends on what interests you. Some Twits are just interesting to follow.

Some famous people post Tweets as well. And some websites have someone post official Tweets, i.e., Twitter (naturally), Pandora, Mashable, MyBlogLog, BlogCatalog. Who knows, maybe SiftBot will start Tweeting.

Links are converted automatically to "tiny URLs." The character limit is 140.

Should you become a Twittering Twit, here is my profile in case you feel compelled to follow me. Yes, there is Twitter lingo too . . .

http://twitter.com/dotartdude

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