Twitter and Tweeting
Well, I do twitter. I began to twitter about the time I started to blog. Which is about right about now. I certainly seem to have more familiarity with blogging, you write something, it goes on a web page, and people can read it should they ever wind up on the same page. Twittering just goes into the now, it doesn’t project through time the way a blog (or a normal web page) does.
So far for me, twittering is mostly an exercise in listening. Of course I have very few followers, so if I do tweet something, it’s not like the whole world will hear it. See, on a web page, like this blog, it may take zillions of years for everyone to see it, but as a tweet – it just vanishes into the ether. Sure, the tweets are there for ever more, but unlike a blog, that’s not what they’re about. They’re about right now. And that’s really the only moment they have in their heyday. I have 12-year-old web pages that are visited numerous times daily. Tweets just ain’t like that.
Cindy uses tweets to “see the web”, as it were. She follows links tweeted by people who scour for cool stuff, or follow other people who follow other people who scour for cool stuff. That’s about all I can use it for so far, myself.
Oh, and I’ve learned how to tweet about a new post in my blog.