I twitter, therefore I am: a tweet?
I have resisted Twitter. After all, I own a cell phone that just makes phone calls. No camera, no texting, no nothing but incoming and outgoing calls (if I remember to turn it on).
So Twitter lacked appeal. Until I started a theater column at Examiner.com and realized that some bits and pieces of news were really too short for a full article. But a "tweet" made perfect sense.
Then somebody forwarded a Twitter Fiction contest to me. I didn't win but it was fun to try to write a story in 126 characters.
Call me Twitter-pated, but suddenly Twitter seems a natural addition to my writing around the Web. It's like a little spice on top of the more meaty stew of words at this blog and others.
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Chris Rodell says:
not twittering yet
Well, I'm still not sold, but you make an interesting case. But I'm right there with you with the Hooterville sort of cell phone. No pix. Can't text or photo. It's main emergency purpose is the order pizzas.
But you're prying open my mind.
Best,
Chris R.
Rosemary Jones says:
Like all communication, you need to see a need
I'm not sold on twittering just for the sake of tweeting. I think it's an interesting way to post fast bulletins for certain audience. Check out HARO (Help A Reporter Out) and how the guy who runs that uses twitter. Makes sense -- it's a list where reporters post topics that they need sources for. If they don't have a big turnaround time, a tweet is an effective way to blast the audience.