My Day with Twitter

I've been tweeting all day. Not always posting, but also trying to keep up with the people I follow. Twitter,one of the social networks, is growing by leaps and bounds. I resisted signing up at first, being busy working, writing articles and posting to my blog. At last I gave in and signed up. Mind you, I was just getting comfortable with chatting. What changed? AC got a link to Facebook. That was simple enough. I didn't know many people on Facebook - at first! Facebook got popular, but Twitter arrived. What I realized was that many of the same people can be found on each of the social networks. To make life easy for "professional" Twitters, there is an enormous amount of Twitter applications.Tweeter is a Twitter Interface that allows you to post new tweets through Facebook.

Twitter is easy and convenient because you are limited to how much you can write. AC increased their links to Twitter and blogs to announce publications. That is when tweeting took off for me. You have to follow to be followed. Twitter is so much easier to follow and be followed. If you are in popularity, you may be concerned about the number of your followers. The number of followers will fluctuate. Today I reevaluated the number of people I follow. Some are interesting to read, while others seldom tweet at all. Spam as arrived on Twitter with offers for free computers, laptops and/or cell phones. So I had to block some "followers". Guy Kawasaki,former Apple evangelist, and entrepreneurial web marketing all star has introduced Twitter Hawk, an app that follows the Twitter conversation listening for mentions of things like coffee or shoes and then throws a promotional message at them. Twitter Hawk is rumored to charges five cents per message.

Some people tweet a lot. I wonder if they work or have a life. Many of the people I follow are self-employed, business owners, stay at home people or have nothing else to do. One person has insomnia, and another is post surgery. I guess like surfing the web all day, tweets could get you fired. According to Nick Douglas, the former Valleywag writer has been chronicling the interesting things people tweet and, landed a $50,000 advance from HarperCollins to put that tweet collection into book form. His biggest I'm-not-a-sellout challenge is to include only premium tweets of sufficient hilarity. Is nothing sacred? Or is everyone out to make a buck?

Tweeting has become a problem for lawyers and trials. When I was on jury duty in January, we were allowed laptops. There were wireless connections for Internet. What I didn't realize was that much access, but was actually tweeting in the courthouse. Keys on computers and Blackberries were being pounded all day. To the dismay of the legal system across the country are discovering jurors are tweeting from the courthouse, discussing the case they're hearing and giving updates. Some lawyers think jury instructions should be updated to clarify that online communications about a case are also prohibited. Florida was one of the few places I served jury duty that allowed personal computers in the courthouse. Tweeting may put having computers in courthouse in danger.

So I "tweeted or detweeted" today instead of writing the article I intended. The result of my day is now chronicled for all to see. AC has hundreds of articles on Twitter - Twitter for marketing, wasting time, promoting AC articles, plugins, and much, much more. This is not one of those articles.Tweets are text-based posts of up to 140 bytes in length.Twitter is a social networking and micro-blogging service.Twitter has alarge Conservative Republican following.Twitter began experiencing problems related to its growing number of users in 2007. The service has experienced outages resulting from traffic overloads due to its increased popularity, like today.www.twitter.comFacebook is developing a serious case of Twitter envy.Launched in July 2006, Twitter is a social networking and micro-blogging service.Twitter's follower model has an advantage over Facebook's "friend" model - following does not require or even imply reciprocal commitments.
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