Twitter Workflow

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I admit that I wasn’t the first get into Twitter. Even now I use it in moderation. That being said, I do enjoy Twitter and wish that more people that I know would make use of it. At least for me, sharing what you are up to and what you are learning can be quite educational.

Here is how I have integrated Twitter into my daily workflow.

Subscribing

I don’t follow, I subscribe. Yeah, instead of following people on Twitter, which is the default behavior, I just subscribe to the syndicated feed at the bottom of a person’s Twitter page. Like so:

Reading

Every day, during lunch, I check my syndicated feeds…

…using a feed reader, like Vienna, to see what is new. Occasionally, I’ll do a quick pulse check in the morning and evening but that’s about it.

Writing

As for posting new content to Twitter, I’ll use the following MacOS dashboard widgets:

(Top widget: Twidget, bottom widget: TinyURL - sorry, I forget where I got this but can e-mail it to you.)

If mobile, I’ll compose an SMS text message from my iPhone.

Rules of Thumb

1. Never subscribe to someone that averages more than 15 tweets a day unless they are really good. You’ve got other stuff to read and at a certain point it just becomes noise.
2. Never post more than 15 tweets a day with occasional exceptions for those special moments. Hey, you are just one voice out of many that someone might be paying attention to, so try to make your stuff worthwhile.

Related Resources

Check out my Twitter and Mac OS pages to learn more.

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