I’ve been neglecting Twitter lately, but thanks to the excellent TwitterFox plugin for Firefox (compatible with the latest 3.5 release), I’m tweeting a lot more these last few days. Having a separate application running is a bit of a waste of time for someone who has the aforementioned browser open for the vast majority of his time on his Macbook Pro, and TwitterFox does everything I need without sapping performance. Twitterific, Tweetie and TweetDeck are all good applications, but TwitterFox is most definitely ‘for the win’.
From a WordPress perspective, I’m using a official Twitter widget in my sidebar to show visitors my most recent Tweet, and I’ve just installed the compact and nifty Twitpost that notifies Twitter every time I post a new blog entry here on the blog.
I think I’m going to embrace Twitter more in the coming years, especially with University coming up, and as I look to create and promote more of my own media to a wider audience. A lot of companies and organisations are using Twitter, and it’s good to see breaking news such as the Iranian election protests really pushing the boundaries of social networks.
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I’m still investigating what can be done on Twitter.
The main problem for me is that I can’t decide where to draw the line on how much information I tweet about myself.
If I tweet nothing about myself I don’t have much to tweet.
But if I tweet a lot it would look narcissistic.
Yeah, I can relate to that. Today I’ve probably Tweeted more than I do in an average week, but then again I’ve had enough bits and pieces I’ve thought aloud about that I’ve wanted to share.
Balance is hard methinks. I’m generally trying to Tweet when:
1) My inner geek is satisfied/dissatisfied
2) I want to think out loud about something.
3) I know that I’ve got something to Tweet that has a high probability of a response.