I have spent the past few days learning a new subject matter: Twitter.
I was first introduced to Twitter by a friend over a year ago, but I deleted my first attempt at it shortly thereafter because I didn’t “get it”.
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Then a few months ago my wife (@beingcrys) joined Twitter again and checked out a book about it, The Twitter Book by Tim O’Reilly and Sarah Milstein. I will ashamedly admit that I scoffed at her and at the book, openly, disdainfully and judgmentally. (See hon I can admit when I’m wrong.)
Well, the more I have researched on Twitter, my mind has begun to turn. As a writer, a published one at that, and hoping to gain an agent as well as to sell a screenplay sometime in the next year of my first novel it made sense for me to reconsider my initial ‘twitter reaction’.
I checked out the book myself. Granted it is fairly simple, but for me that was very much needed and important. I am not much of an “API Geek”, and even Facebook can confuse the crap out of me. The book is in easy format to read and pretty much understand, giving just the right amount of info about how to use Twitter and instead of going too much into depth, it gives you resources on where to learn more, where to find more and the most useful thing is simply exploring it, playing with it.
So now I have been on twitter just a few days, but am already tweeting and trending and posting hashmarked topics to do so… and I’ve got followers now, and I’m following others! I am ‘meeting’, if you can call it that, other authors, writers, publishers, and even agents. I even was inspired to try an RSS reader and got my GoogleReader set up and am following my favorite blogs and tweeters on there.
Plus I have a few celebs I love that I just had to follow of course. So now I’m a twitterer, tweeter, whatever you call ‘us’.
So if you twitter, look me up, say hi… @chasingcorn.
