When I start talking to folks about Web 2.0 and mention Twitter, I get some curious reactions. Most often, it is I don’t get it.
The ‘technical’ description of Twitter is that it is a micro-blogging tool. You are given 140 characters to share your message, called a tweet. People follow your tweets and you are able to ‘follow’ the tweets of other people. Most of the time, when you follow someone they’ll follow you back except for celebrities or people who don’t get that’s what you’re supposed to do. For example, I follow M.C. Hammer, The Today Show, and a bunch of random people I don’t yet know. I follow them because they sound interesting, have knowledge I might want to tap, or seem like potential clients or partners.
The thing about Twitter is that once you get into it, it can suck you in. My first experience with that was during the Presidential Debates. You can put a hash-tag in your tweets which provides a filtering capability, sort of like a news feed.
It’s been a long time since I’ve been outside of my comfort zone. Oh, there was that learning-to-juggle-thing I undertook around this time last year. It only took me a month to master that new trick. It wasn’t something I had ever tried before, so I didn’t expect to be good at it. The failures were anticipated and even a fun part of the journey.
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