2 years ago . . .
Dick: Jane, you should start blogging. I’m about to find the cure for cancer with my blog, and another blogger I know is about to establish World Peace.
Jane: Nah, blogging looks so narcissistic, and time-consuming.
1 1/2 years ago . . .
Jane: Maybe I should start a blog. I could write about the kids. And ignore the house. And become the next Helen Keller, only not blind, and not deaf, and not an inspiration to people everywhere.
2 months ago . . .
Dick: Jane, you should get on Twitter. Twitter is micro-blogging: you stay connected with people, build relationships/networks, find World Peace.
Jane: Twitter is the lamest thing I’ve ever heard of. If you like someone enough to want to know what they’re doing all day, don’t you already know? I mean, ’cause you’re on the phone or the IM with them?
1 1/2 weeks ago . . .
Jane: Dooce is on Twitter?
Dick: Lots of really cool people are on Twitter.
Jane: And you can follow whoever you want?
Dick: And Barack Obama will follow you back. But not Dooce.
Dick and Jane are twitterpated with Twitter. You can follow me right here. If you’re not ready to get an account of your own, you can subscribe to the feed of WhatAboutMom’s “Tweets” — short (140 character max) updates on what I’m doing/thinking right now.
You can also follow the mama bird diaries or Daring Young Mom or Mom101 or TaraThinks. If you’re on Twitter, tell me your ID. I want to follow you, to the ends of the earth. It’d be cool to have a listing of all the Mom-type Twitterers. Maybe on my sidebar . . .
I like following Dick and having him follow me. I get to keep up with what he says to his colleague-type followers (especially those attractive female colleague-ish Twitterers) and he gets to keep up on all the startlingly brilliant things our kids do in real time.
If you have an iGoogle homepage (why wouldn’t you?), you can get the BeTwittered gadget for your homepage, so all those Tweets are at your fingertips, right next to your Google Reader and your Gmail and your To-Do List and your Wikipedia gadget. WHO NEEDS TO EVER LEAVE THIS CHAIR?
Twitter is what works for me today. I’m kind of scared to see what Dick suggests next month. Microchips? Telepathy? Date Night?
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I finally joined twitter a week ago (I think it was a week ago). And I keep forgetting to use it.
But I’ll follow you. When I remember…
Like your blog, by the way
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I’m fairly new to twitter myself and I love it!
You can follow me at MindSaid.
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Too funny! I have heard about Twitter but haven’t explored it at all. My family already thinks I’m completely obsessed with blogging, what would it be like if I add something else?
Don’t answer that!
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I LOVE twitter. I have just set it up tonight (last night) to forward my tweets to my facebook status. You can also add your twitter feed to your sidebar on your blog, which I have done. If I am not able to do a full blown post, people looking at my site can still see what I have been up to that day.
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Must…remove…myself…from…chair…
And THAT is the very reason I keep saying, “twitter? what’s twitter?”
LA LA LA LA LA
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I’m on twitter too. My b-i-l told me I just had to sign up and was absolutely over the moon that some guy named Jason Calacanis was following him. So I signed up. and about 2 days later called him, because only he would understand the elation I felt when Dana Loesch of Mamalogues was following me. His Jason is my Dana. *S* I know. Sad. Anyway… I’m thekytikat everywhere I go (myspace, twitter, face book – though I don’t use that one)
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JenuineJen,
Good point, you can add a feed of your latest Tweets to your sidebar. I use Alex King’s Wordpress widget “Twitter Tools,” but I didn’t mention it originally bec. I didn’t want to sound TOO obsessed (too late, right?).
Also, Alex King, if you’re out there, your TT widget is really irritating in one respect: I can’t change the title of it on my sidebar, so it says “What I’m doing…” where I would rather have it say “from Twitter” or something like that.
Dick, of course, thought this was a user error on my part, but now concedes this may be a WP 2.5 widget bug or some mean thing on Alex King’s part.
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I love Twitter! I’m just talking to myself right now, though.
http://twitter.com/CanadianSheila
Sheila at Dodging Raindrops’s last blog post..DVDs that won’t rot their brains
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I also needed to be ‘convinced’ into trying twitter. And now, I have it set as my home page so that I remember to update it all the time. And read all my friend’s ‘tweets’. And waste time that I should be doing housework. And laugh with all the other people doing the same thing. You can follow me if you want at http://twitter.com/khesketh
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