John Infante’s “Summer of Zero Tip #5: Get on Twitter” post in the blog Fearfully Optimistic advocates giving Twitter a try. As someone who started some time last year, didn’t grok it, then got into it full swing the second time around, I second the recommendation. Once I started using Twitter comfortably, I found my use of Facebook, IM, and RSS declining.
Once you sign up, go out and grab a free Twitter client like Nambu (which is quite polished and handy). Once you use a Twitter client, you’ll never want to use the Twitter site again; just as with IM, a dedicated client application provides a much better experience. It’s a nonlinear medium, which is why making sense of it can be difficult. But give it a while and you may find it useful. Feel free to follow me (subscribe to my tweets), of course. My Mac Law Students Twitter account is, surprisingly, @maclawstudents.
Twitter has been hyped, and it has been bashed. But as I pointed out in a post on my other blog in April, like any mainstream communications technology it can be used for the sublime as well as the ridiculous.
