More Thoughts on Twitter

09/11/2012 3 Comments

So I have been on Twitter a bit now, and there is some great community-building that happens. I have self-listed as a writer, and have started getting some writers and writing groups following me. This is awesome. This is stuff I would like to check out and keep up with.

However, how do you keep up with things on Twitter? Follow a few folks, and suddenly you’re drowning in posts! I have a few actors, not so interesting sometimes; a few comedy ones, which I could take or leave; a few blogs, which I really probably don’t need because I go to their sites; a few celebrities who seem to talk to each other so it’s a bit amusing; and then the writers who might be saying something I should pay attention to.

Phew!

How do people keep up with Twitter? Multiple accounts depending on what you want to read about? Skip blindly over things? Constantly sitting and reading what people are writing?

How do you interact with Twitter? Did you try and give up? What are your thoughts, oh reader?

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Emerging Trends in Blogging

08/06/2012 2 Comments

Blogging itself was a new form of communication not too long ago, although in many ways not that different from what came before, from news articles, to editorials, to LiveJournals, and message boards. What has been coming on the scene feels different, but is similar too. Microblogging, and blogging as social media, is where things seem to be going at the moment.

What can this blog, as a blog about writing and blogging, do to keep up with this? What does the future of this blog look like? Read more of this post

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Speaking of Crisis Blogging…

07/02/2012 Leave a comment

I signed up for Twitter last night to try that out, and found myself looking at a blogging (micro-blogging) crisis going on at the time. Check out this article for a full scoop. And yes, it looks like The Illusive Man got in on the mix.

I feel like I could say more, but that would basically be repeating the good work that is already in the article above.

How is this usually handled in blogging? I don’t want to rehash something someone else has written, or steal their visuals, which I feel like is much of what I could accomplish. The tweets I saw even show up in the article. So… yeah. Read and enjoy.

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