When I first saw the people were starting to use something called Twitter,
I thought the concept was really dumb. After all, why would I want to read
micro-blogs that allow only 140 characters? Who would want to read what
other people are doing?

After reading what several people said about Twitter on the Warrior Forum,
and having made a comment that I couldn’t see the use of it, I decided to
try it anyway.

Here’s what I found:

I found people who I am interesting in who use it and make interesting
tweets.  These are people like Frank Kern and Andy Jenkins to name just
two of many.  Both Frank and Andy give heads-up on Twitter of their most
recent posts and website offerings.  It’s a great place to be among those
who get information first.

You can find many interesting people on Twitter and you can choose to
follow them or not.  Just by seeing who other people follow I’ve been able
to find some these really cool people.  It becomes very viral and
addictive.

There are people I didn’t even know existed that I now follow because
they are interesting, have interesting opinions, and add links to other
interesting things.

Without even trying, you can get people to follow you because they are
interested in what you’re doing.

Here are some things that you can do:

You can get breaking news.  Even CNN has Twitter links.  You can share
your photos with a Twitter application.  You can alert people when ever you
make a blog update.  And, whenever you make a new Twitter post, you can
have it update your FaceBook account.

Some of these things are possible because of fancy applications that have
been written for Twitter.

You can find out more about it by checking out my Twitter account.