I don’t use Twitter. I have never really had the urge to use Twitter. However, it seems that everyone else in this corner of the blogosphere (or at least most of the bloggers on my blogroll) do use Twitter. The newly redesigned authors page at D5GW (very nice by the way) has, at least to my eye, a glaring hole in the middle of it because I don’t have a Twitter profile.
I still don’t especially want to Twitter (like I need something else to spend time on), but I can’t help feeling like I’m missing out on something.
“like I need something else to spend time on”
That’s the point!
WRT my latest D5GW posts….I always want to write something short and to the point, but they always grow and grow. Last one took several hours to write, and my evening was shot. But a few Twits could have summarized the main points and been completed in a few minutes.
At first I wasn’t too sure of Twitter either. Still don’t like not having sort pages for each of those I “follow” on Twitter. Everyone is lumped together and I miss things all the time. But it’s nice to check up on what others are thinking — others who don’t have the time to write an involved blog post. (I’ve even noticed a few in “our little corner of the blogosphere” as it were practically abandoning their blogs while remaining active on Twitter.)
Yeah, the glaring whole. My thought is that the listing of Twitter profiles would help as a better contact method than anything else.
Please excuse “the glaring whole” — misspoke, but otoh that sounds like a cool title for a future blog post, hah.
The Glaring Whole sounds like a great title for a blog much less a blog post.
Several bloggers from my blogroll mirror their tweets to their Facebook profiles (a social networking platform I do spend time on, probably too much time). For the most part I find them interesting and/or informitive, but some I really have no interest in. A very small number are so tedious and uninteresting I have the urge to delete them from my feed. Based on that limited exposure I don’t see myself on Twitter anytime soon. I like the longer and more involved nature of the blog post. Writing an idea out in the space of an index card is a great exercise for creative writing but when it comes to theory and ideas that are developed beyond the lightbulb stage I need something to get my mental teeth into.
you could create a twitter profile for the sake of filling the Gaping Whole (be a great band name too.)
Actually, the new MT install allows each author to select “Other Profiles” in their preferences. The selection list is pretty large, maybe 25 or 30 different service choices?
If you’d rather use it to set up Facebook, Flickr, whatever, let me know and I’ll alter the templates to update directly from that. (At present it’s hardcoded, not a template creation.)