Twitter for beginners

This is great, concise advice:

Just say something you mean, and enjoy the short thoughts, inspirations and mundane details of the people you decide to follow- searching for bloggers and writers you enjoy reading in a bigger format is the way to start. Follow people saying real stuff, not the ones who are just advertising.

How do you find those people? Look for the Twitter widget in the sidebar of their blogs, or go to twitter.com and search for people. (Everyone from Jim “Mad Money” Cramer to Henry Rollins and MC Hammer is twittering.) Even better, join and follow some people you already know, and let them lead you to other interesting people - just as with this sort of blogging, really.

And, just as with this sort of blogging, you can also lurk and never say a thing yourself. But you’ll get much more out of it if you do.

One Response to “Twitter for beginners”

  1. Thanks, Jackie. :-) I was wondering.

    Oh, funny story, I got your spam protection wrong a second ago. I accidentally wrote 12 is the sum of 1 + 10. Glad I caught that before the gods of wordpress thought i was dumb. LOL

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