Twitter allows you to use 140 characters in your message and that is even smaller than it seems. Being forced to be concise is a blessing in disguise as I believe more people will pay attention to your messages more often.
By placing a heading at the beginning of your message your "Followers" (as they are called on Twitter) can choose to read the rest of the message or move on, similar to changing the channel.
I see a great advantage for networking, especially for those who understand SNAP networking. I expect to start SNAP networking on Twitter soon. Here are a couple examples of my Twitter messages:
music*2 In case you missed it - Duffy - Soul from Wales - give her a listen :-) http://tinyurl.com/4bejlc
poltc* FiveThirtyEight.com Figuring the undecideds http://tinyurl.com/4o2sqt
The first message above is about music and the second is about politics and if you don't have any interest in those subjects, you can move on without reading the content. It might seem like "what's the big deal?" to some of you because the messages are so short anyway, but it makes a difference in the long run. It could make the difference between a list of tens of people or hundreds or thousands or tens of thousands reading your messages on a regular basis.
Follow me on Twitter! Click here or on the title of this post to visit my Twitter profile. Remember to click on "follow".
Monday, September 22, 2008
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