I'm now a die-hard Twitter fan, after previously dissing it. I think sometimes, I get impatient with the new "newness" of something. I guess that comes with being 45 and a bit of an old grump about change.
Anyway, now I am regularly calling Twitter my "21st century newspaper" to those who wonder what on earth I'm doing with it. I read the tweets every morning with my coffee and click on the links that I'm interested in, much like scanning the headlines in the newspaper.
I feel like I'm getting a good sense of the world, rather than just the US, by subscribing to tweets from Al Jazeera English, BBC and various Canadian outlets. It also saves on the time it would take jumping from site to site.
I don't really care who follows and doesn't follow me - I don't find that Twitter always makes for a good chat with someone unless you both happen to be tweeting at the exact same moment. Replies can often get buried, but I've noticed that I pick up on them a lot faster when I use my iPhone for Twitter.
Anyway, I'm tweeting a lot now and those silly little random thoughts are going out on Twitter rather than on the blog. For my twitter page, simply click on the link on the right of this article.
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