Do you tweet? I do now. I only started a couple of months ago, at the beginning of the year, which makes me a bit of a late adopter as these things do. I'd been aware of twitter for a number of years already; I spend a fair amount of time online, and I have a techie geek of a husband who's usually pretty up on the latest and greatest new thing.
I wasn't on twitter until recently because I've never been much for posting facebook status updates, and I figured, what was the point of twitter then? I thought it would be one of those things where you sign up, tweet a couple of things, and then completely lose interest.
Instead, I'm now addicted. I tweet mostly about HR stuff, and I found there was an awful lot of it on twitter. Access to articles and blogs that I would never have stumbled upon on my own, online chats, HR-themed internet radio broadcasts; it was a whole new world. And I jumped right in.
To date, I've tweeted about 250 times, I think; I try to tweet a few times a day, and retweet anything that I find particularly interesting. I've amassed a few hundred followers, which makes me happy, and have been included by a few people on lists of who to follow, which makes me even happier. One tweep (that's Twitter Peep, for all you folks out there who may not have a clue what I'm talking about) made my week when he listed me as a part of his "people who know what they're talking about" list. I still feel pumped just thinking about that.
Now I feel like I need to check twitter, and find out what's going on! I'd better get back to it.
Basically, I do think twitter is a fabulous resource. There are some great people on there, and some great blogs. It can be a great way to promote your blogging as well, although I can't say as I've really taken advantage of that. I'm not yet comfortable enough with my blogging abilities to go on to twitter and promote myself.
You should try it!
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