I’ve just signed up for Twitter. My Twitter username is @susantomespiano and there’s a ‘follow me on Twitter’ button on the left-hand side of this page.
It’s daunting, because I already feel I’m drowning in email. But the younger generation keeps telling me I really should bite the bullet and join Twitter. According to them, ‘no-one’ ever sees what I write on my website because I don’t tweet about it. That makes me sad. So I’m going to have a go.
If you’re on Twitter, please ‘follow’ me!
Well, not “no one”. I’ve been reading your blog for a long time. Seems to me there’s very little one can say that’s meaningful in 140 characters except “real content is available … click this [blog post] url”.
It’s true that it’s hard to figure out the best use of Twitter. Some people seem to give little updates on what they’re doing. Others use it as you describe: a way to draw your attention to something else. I suppose the main point is that it’s a medium which lots of people watch.
Just so long as you don’t abandon the blog! (if I may speak on behalf of the other cyber-troglodytes among us…)
I can only second the last comment by Alison! I don’t subscribe to Twitter – nor do I subscribe to Facebook or any of the other so-called social networks. So call me antediluvian – but please keep up your blog! And refer to it by Twitter by all means, particularly if it helps you attract members of the Twitter generation…