I have read about Twitter numerous times in the last year however I constantly resisted invitations to join Twitter. Although I could see the benefits of using it, I just didn’t want something else wasting my time (msn messenger and skype waste a few hours every week for me as it is!). Jason Blanton emailed me once or twice a few months ago and told me to start tweeting but still I resisted - you see the problem is I know I will waste my time on it!!
However, in the last month or so I have so many people join Twitter and use it to network that I have no choice but to try it out as well. Dozens of bloggers who I follow on a weekly basis have recently joined including Nate Whitehill, John Chow, Jim Kukral, Darren Rowse, Zac Johhson, Andy Beal and Chris Garrett.
So, if you’re into Twitter, feel free to follow my rants at http://twitter.com/system0.
Don’t think of it as wasting your time, rather how you can use it effectively. Networking, learning, promotion, of course I also do a lot of ranting (which is a waste of time). But all in all I think its fairly useful.
Welcome to Twitter Kevin. Good to have you Twittering, or Tweeting or whatever its called today.
No I’m sure it will be great for networking as there are a lot of great bloggers using it. It’s important to network etc but it’s very easy to spend more time doing that than working on your website or writing for your blog. Guess you need to find a good balance
Kev, Nice to see you on Twitter.