12th May 2009
Follow me on Twitter
Everyone has heard about the latest social networking serice Twitter! If you didn’t sleep the whole 2008 you just have to have heard of twitter: what it is and why to use it. And how you can benefit from being a twitterer.
Well first of all: what is twitter. Twitter is a service that answers one question: what are you doing? You know the status messages on sites like facebook, studiVZ, linkedin and a lot of other services. And maybe you have noticed it yourself: whenever you are logged in to one of these sites you always want to know what your friends are doing right now. You look up the status messages for example “training with my dog for the tournament tomorrow”. And your friends are also eager to read what you are doing right now. And thats where twitter enters the game. It is a service that lets you only post those status updates. And you have only about 140 characters to do that. Sounds weired? It is somehow. But it is fun on the other hand. And you will soon find that this service lets you stay in touch with the ones you know and love and that your network of friends will start to grow the same day you open a twitter account.
Now you have an idea of what twitter is and what it does. Or what you can do with it. Now how do you connect with friends using twitter? Thats an easy one: you look up their names or nicknames in twitter if you don’t know them. Then you will see their profile page with their latest tweets and right underneath their picture there is the follow button. As an example here is a profile page from a german twitter user. As soon as you click the follow button you have made friends with him and are following his updates. That means his updates will show up on your twitter page along with his picture. And if he ads you it is the same vice versa. You will quickly grow your network of friends, family members, co-workers and you can even find a new job through twitter. Just tweet about what you are looking for and maybe you are lucky.
You may start by following The German Guy on twitter. Although he is german his tweets are at least bilingual. I also saw him tweet in japanese. And you can ask him questions about germany and europe and also receive his tweets about his english blog posts about things in europe where he answers readers questions. Now give it a try. Join twitter and connect to your friends. And don’t forget to follow me no twitter. Cu soon - tweeting.
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