My Twitter experience: 1 month in
It’s now been a month since I’ve begon my Twitter experience, mostly because I didn’t get what all the excitement was about. So do I after one month in? The answer to that is yes, to a certain extent.
It’s been a fun experience so far. I’ve used it to share links to friends (on a side note: none of my “real” friends use Twitter, but a couple follow my tweets through RSS), updates to this blog and my Squidoo lenses and thrown in some personal views as well. I haven’t gone as far as writing things like “Having breakfast” or “Going to take a shower” but I have tweeted some personal messages. I also enjoyed finding out how to personalize my Twitter page and testing new apps (I use Nambu) and add ons for this blog (the wonderful Twitter Tools) in order to update Twitter. Finding and following people I find interesting and read their updates has also been insightful.
But there’s still a learning curve for me in order to use Twitter effectively and see the real value. Maybe it’s because none of the people I hang out with in real life are on Twitter, but I haven’t used it as the great conversation tool that so many claim it to be. I also still have to find out how I can use the trends and # hashtags better. Getting followed has also been a quite interesting experience; to be honest only one person that follows me I do know in real life in some way (I of course follow her back), two I kind of know through Squidoo, but all the others are completely unknown to me (even one has had his/her/its account suspended because it was probably a spamming account). So I still don’t get the deeper meaning or value that some give Twitter credit for.
But the value for me now is that it’s been a fun experience. So I’ll continue after this first month (not going to be part of that 60%) and see how my Twitter use evolves further. And of course if you want to join me in my Twitter experience you can always start following me.
