I’ve been avoiding Twitter like a Mexican avoids somebody with flu symptoms. It’s not so much an issue with Twitter itself, more the technology involved. I figure unless I can update it frequently and easily enough then what’s the point of using it? If I use my mobile it will cost me a fortune, the various Twitter clients I’ve tried were all bulky for what little functionality they gave. The Twitter website is not that good. So in short I couldn’t be bothered with Twitter.
I did however set up an account for my daughter. It took a little while but now she has become hooked, not only that but every day she seems to gain more followers, many from people all over the world. This has had a really positive effect on her blog (can you see where I’m going with this yet?). Am I really stupid enough to ignore something that could be so beneficial? Nope.
In the end I’ve settled on this Twitter client. It lets me update my status from the comfort of my PC (where I spend all day, every day anyway) and doesn’t use any of my screen.
I’ll be updating whenever the notion hits me, however if there’s one thing I really don’t want my Twitter account to become it’s nothing but an endless list of TinyUrl’s to my posts and web pages. There are enough social bookmarking tools out there, no need to trash Twitter in that way. During the day I come across plenty of interesting things (great keywords, link opportunities, affiliate programs etc etc) and it will be those and my general day to day crap that I’ll be Tweeting (can’t get used to that word). So if you want to follow me you can find me here:-
http://www.twitter.com/PRBarlow
I was going to go for some cool username, but got fed up with the “already used” notifications so just went with my name instead.
If you want to leave your own Twitter usernames in the comments then please feel free. I’ll check out each and every one.
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3 Responses to “I’m Now Twitter’fied”
KushMoney
April 30, 2009
I’m now following you on twitter.
My twitter is http://www.twitter.com/kushmoney
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|R Kumar
May 2, 2009
Twitter is a traffic monster. It is just that we do not realize the potential of it till the time we see some money flowing in with the help of twitter. I had created an account in early 2007 but had never used it till about 6 months back when I all of a sudden saw a few dollars flowing in from my affiliate marketing business with the help of twitter.
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|Matt Hayden
October 8, 2009
I keep reading about how fantastic Twitter is but I have not gotten into it yet. I feel horribly guilty about it, but I just don’t have the time.
I can’t see how people can post tweets all the time as well as following other people’s. It’s all I can do to post regularly to my blogs!
Just shows how quickly the internet changes. Not so long ago blogging was the big new thing. Now it’s Twitter. In six months it will something else …
I just can’t keep up!
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