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4 Reasons Why You Should Join Twitter RIGHT NOW (and follow me) [A New Level of Connectedness]
Posted by Mavrik | Filed under ZOMG
My twitter id is blindsight4ever. FOLLOW ME NOW (link below)!!!!
http://twitter.com/blindsight4ever
Before I start, you should know that if I use “tweet” it means post a message on twitter. “Follow” is twitter’s word for friending someone. Just FYI.
4. Find a job. That’s right! I have actually just started a job that I would not have known about, let alone gotten had I not been on twitter. It’s not a big job, but now I have a steady 2 hour a week job ($10/hr), which is perfect for me (I’m a med student so I don’t have too much free time). But yeah, there’s a nice $20-a-week bonus that will either curb my ridiculous bill for going to this school or give me a little extra cash to buy stuff I want.
3. Follow comedic members. There are a few funny accounts like Darth Vader who posts funny little tidbits like, “Tarkin tells me a smuggler captain who confuses units of distance with units of time should be an easy catch. I mean, how hard could it be?” It gives you a good laugh every once in awhile, but there’s a good number of these.
2. Keep in touch with friends. Similar to Facebook’s status updates, twitter allows you to post 140 character messages to let people know what you’re doing or if there’s an important announcement. Some people like to announce births, engagements, etc. over twitter since it easily gets posted and anyone that’s following them can be informed. It also saves time because you don’t have to go around telling/calling people to let them know. This is usually more for people you’d probably not call and tell, but if you still would like to spread the word farther than your close friends, this is what you’d use.
1. Reach a new level of understanding/connectedness. This I’m 100% serious about. I’m an avid blog reader and subscribe to a lot of RSS feeds. Twitter works similarly in that you can follow a website and keep tabs on it. Whenever there’s a new post on the site, there will be a new tweet added to their microblog on twitter. This site is actually on there as well (through my account so you can track the blog this way too). So whenever we update something on here it gets tweeted on twitter. One other thing I like is that you can follow bloggers you like. I personally like some bloggers like Gina Trapani, Chris, Pirillo, and Veronica Belmont who I follow and it just gives another level of connectedness to get more if an insight into what they thing about other stuff (not just what they blog about). Even Obama has his own twitter account and he has a TON of followers (he’ll be announcing his vice president on twitter as soon as he decides as well).
So I know that was long, but there’s so much to explore on twitter. Just check it out, follow me if you like (i’ll follow you back), and discover a new level of connectedness! I will be posting some more info on twitter later on to give you guys more info about what else you can do with this great site.
One more thing, you can determine whether your account is open or not. Mine is open so anyone can follow me, but you can easily make it so that anyone that asks to follow you needs to be accepted by you first.
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