Petting Party

I genuinely think I am addicted to Twitter. There are so many reasons to love it. I know not everyone ‘gets’ it and it does take a while to understand it’s full potential but once you do, a whole world of internetty wondrousness opens up.

• You can make random connections and have awesome conversations with people you are never going to meet. And, unlike chatrooms, conversations flow at *your* pace and end when you want without people thinking you rude.
• Follow the right people and you can see so many amazing/weird/obscure things floating about the internet. For example today i could not help but click on a tweet which read “Wow. Blind man has tooth implanted into his eye, restores eyesight. http://tinyurl.com/kkmqcr” How can you resist clicking something like that?! (thanks @bizarremagazine)
• Follow localised Twitter-feeds and you can find out about everything that’s going on in your city before your friends and look super-cool ‘cos you know about everything worth knowing about (eg. if you live in London you absolutely have to be following @LDN and @Londonist)
  
• You can stay in contact with people you no longer see and might just fall out of touch with otherwise. Okay, some might argue Facebook is for that but I have a lot of Facebook friends and there’s something delightfully intimate about twitter at times which allows a steady stream of contact with people who’d otherwise get lost on your FB mini-feed.
• You can voyeuristicly peek in on the adventures of people on the edge of your social circle. There’s something I really enjoy about hearing first-hand tales from their lives when face-to-face we might only exchange pleasantries.
• Retweeting is amazing. Not everyone gets it and a lot of people confuse it with (via @username). Read this insightful post to understand the difference. It’s still amazing though. Don’t worry if you can’t be fucked to read that, as soon Twitter are incorporating retweeting as an actual feature. Read all about Project Retweet on the highly informative Mashable.com (or follow them @mashable)
• Obviously Twitter is awesome for self-promotion. In fact a high proportion of my blog hits comes from Twitter. Way more than Facebook. Which says to me that people who don’t really know me enjoy my blog a lot more than people I do. WTF is up with that people?!

Anyways kids, follow me on twitter innit

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