“What the heck is Twitter and why should I care?” (Alan Cann)
Dr. Alan Cann made a very decent SlideCast to help explain Twitter (embedded below):
Patricia Anderson and Jill Hurst-Wahl convinced me to give Twitter a third try, and I’m glad they did.
Twitter is fun and I enjoy it, but wouldn’t enjoy it nearly as much if I wasn’t using Twhirl as a desktop client. If you try Twitter, here’s my advice:
1. Find the friends you want to try following and follow them.
2. Download and install Twhirl.
3. Leave Twhirl running in the background while you work. If you see a tweet that interests you or makes you want to respond, do. If the tweets you see don’t engage you, they’re easy to ignore after a quick glance.
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April 11th, 2008 at 3:45 am
I’d be afraid to be constantly distracted by this (I’ve just set the update intervalls of my mail and rss client to 30min from 5min)
April 11th, 2008 at 4:14 am
I second the recommendation for Twhirl – it’s particularly good for handing multiple Twitter identities, i.e. teaching me, MicrobiologyBytes me and real me
April 12th, 2008 at 2:34 am
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