Twitter References

I have been using Twitter for the last couple of months.  At first I was unsure how to best use Twitter and found it extremely frustrating.  What really changed my mind about Twitter were several articles and blogs I ran across.  One of the posts I read, A Minimalist’s Guide to Using Twitter Simply, Productively, and Funlyby Leo Babauta, contained a description of Twitter which really change how I percieved it.  The description was of Twitter as a river…

Twitter is like a river … you can step into it at any point and feel the water, bathe in it, frolic if you like … and then get out. And go back in at any time, at any point. But, you don’t have to try to consume the entire river — it’s impossible and frankly a waste of time in my eyes.

So that’s how I approach Twitter these days: I’ll just jump into the stream of incoming tweets and see what people are saying. I can ignore them or follow their links or reply if I want. Then I get out of the stream. I don’t try to read everything I missed, and if I miss a lot of stuff, I’m OK with that.

via A Minimalist’s Guide to Using Twitter Simply, Productively, and Funly | Zen Habits.

Here are some links to other posts about Twitter that I found intetresting and Helpful:

• 12 ways to use Twitter to increase your productivity
  
• 6 Tips for Using Your Twitter Profile to Get New Followers – The section on Twitter backgrounds is interesting and led me to the post I used to create a twitter background via a powerpoint template.
• WHY asking Questions are a Powerful Twitter Technique
  
• Do you Converse or Broadcast? How to Build (or Kill) Relationships on Twitter – Particularly for new twitter users, this post was particularly helpful.
• Twitter Guide: How To Do Things With Twitter
  
• TweetStats – In ur Tweets, Graphin’ Your Stats!
• Twitter Tools for Community and Communications Professionals