Twitter in Plain English
The talent at CommonCraft have done it again and created an excellent video that explains Twitter for those who might not understand it yet. You can watch it below:
You can find me on Twitter, learn how I use of Twitter, and study more about Twitter on my Twitter page if you want to learn more.
Twitter Workflow
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
- 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.
- 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
Twitter, in case you were not aware, is a free micro-blogging web service where you can write about what you are doing at any point in time. You can post updates by sending an SMS message from your cell phone, instant message client, or directly from the Twitter web site. These short messages are generally called “Tweets” and are limited to 140 characters of plain text, no HTML markup. Any URLs that are included in the text message will be automatically converted to hyperlinks (although you can use TinyURL to convert longer URLs into shorter ones).
I have been using Twitter off and on for a while now but recently have started to use it more frequently. Feel free to check out my Twitter profile and/or subscribe to my feed. You can also learn more about Twitter on my my Twitter page.
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