“Twit” is no longer just a mean word 🙂
I signed up for Twitter a while ago. But I never “got it” – until recently – when I figured out the awesomeness of microblogging.
Seth Godin wrote this on his blog:
“My goal in creating this blog is to spread my ideas and keep me from having to write a book about every single thing that pops into my head. I’m an amateur, not a professional.”
“Micro” blogging takes this and turns it on its head – and completely frees me from even the “gotta write a meaningful post” world of “macro” (a.k.a “the usual style of”) blogging.
Microblogging lets me put out stuff that is interesting, stuff that I want to share with my followers, but is too trivial to take up space on my blog.
Though many folks use it in a more social and personal context (“watching Spiderman now”, “woke up late”, “eating lunch” types), it has a much more powerful and serious side to it that is just begging to be taken advantage of.
Now I’ve started leaving behind a trail of my online activities on twitter – for my tribe: Web sites I’m visiting, articles I’m reading, videos I’m watching, books I’m reading…
Whether you twitter or tumble or spoink, do it so that you can make meaning for your followers.
I invite you to come stalk me 🙂
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Hey Ravi –
We met at the Frank Kern seminar in San Diego. Anyway, it’s been awhile and just wanted to say Hi.
Awesome! never knew that twitter can be useful! Thanks, Ravi!
I love the microblogging opportunity in Twitter — in fact, I think it may be suggestive of a person’s ability to be an engaging blogger across the board that they can take a 140 character limit and make it interesting! People seem to either pick it up or they don’t, but some of the tweets out there are just hysterical. I’m following you now, too, by the way. ^_^