Archive for June 18th, 2008
Twitter for the average user
There are quite a few people out there in Twitterland who are following tens of thousands of people on Twitter. Many of them are writing articles about how to use Twitter, usually including advice stating that the more people you follow, the more interested in learning you'll seem to be.
I don't think it's about that at all. I think there are a number of people out there whose ego seems directly proportional to the number of people following them.
So if you're an average user, don't be intimidated by these people who write articles and imply that you're a nobody if you don't have 20,000 followers… Instead, think about what YOU want from Twitter, or any of the other social networking tools or sites, and make it about serving your own needs, rather than trying to fit in.
Here's a few tips for the average user of Twitter, or for someone who's not yet into it, but is wondering how they could make use of it.
This blog needs a clean out
There’s over 1,000 posts in this blog, with the majority of them being in the ‘Pre-2006′ section. I’ve decided that I need to clean up those posts by getting rid of what’s useless, and appropriately categorizing the rest of them.
It’s going to be a big project, which will take some time to complete.
I’ll need beer. Lots of it.
