Questions: Do you Tweet? If so, what do you like best about Twitter? What do you like the least? Do you have any Twitter applications or extras that you use frequently (TweetDeck, TwitterFeed, etc)? Do you belong to any of the Twitter groups on LT?
I am on twitter, you can find me right here. I think it’s a lot of fun and that the many, many twitter nay-sayers don’t really understand its purpose. I use twitter for chatting with bookish friends and networking with bookish people, not for just saying what I’m doing at any given time (although sometimes I do that too). I can follow my favorite comedian and my favorite musician and have a fast track to their news which otherwise would require me remembering visit websites, myspace (yuck!) and so on. I have a couple of “real life” friends on twitter, but I think it works best as a platform to broadcast debates, questions, and have discussions involving lots of people. I’d say I like twitter spam the least; I go check out every one of my new followers and I’m very often disappointed. I have strange followers, like people trying to sell me pet food when at present I am sadly pet-less, so I think it has to be monitored somewhat carefully, but the rewards are greater than the hassle.
I use TweetDeck to keep up with the tweets. I find the website often down and painfully slow, so in a sense TweetDeck is fantastic. It does slow everything else down, so I have to turn it off if I’m using my VoIP phone to talk with my parents or people in the USA, but when I’m just browsing, it’s great.
I don’t belong to any twitter groups on LT. I already belong to too many groups and I’m more of a lurker than a poster, so it’s best if I keep away.
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I’m on Twitter, but I don’t use it as much as I should. Mainly because of lack of time.
Yvonne’s last blog post..Tuesday Thingers
I love Twitter. My days of saying “I’ll never join!” are long gone
One of my favourite things about it is that it has allowed me to get to know other book bloggers better – you included!
I need to try out TweetDeck.
lenore’s last blog post..Library Thing Tuesday (56) + picture of Emmy
Like Nymeth I originally said “I’ll never join,” but then you all were talking about me when I made the announcement about the baby and I had to see what you were saying. I love it, but I agree on its uses. I really wouldn’t Twitter if it weren’t for my blog.
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I am on Twitter too, although I have such a hard time keeping up, even with Tweetdeck and Tweetfox or whatever it’s called. It can be quite addicting, following the discussions!
Literary Feline’s last blog post..Interview with Author Mary Stanton, Angel’s Advocate
I love Twitter – I didn’t realize there are Twitter groups on LT. I think I’ll stay away from them though because, like you, I have too much going on as it is.
I love twitter bit so much goes on that there are some days where I have to force myself to stay off it, otherwise I would never get anything done
Nicole’s last blog post..Stop The Press! Have you really read that book you read?
Having recently come back to Twitter, I’ve been surprised at how much more fun it is the second time around! I have been enjoying the casual chatting, and I’ve been discovering some fun links that I wouldn’t have come across otherwise.
The followers, though – some days, that gets quite interesting. I’ve gotten to the point where I just close the page if it has the word SEO or marketing on it (unless the word “book” is in there somewhere!).
Belle’s last blog post..June and July Giftaway
I check out all my followers before follwing back as well — there are some strange profiles out there! How about the folks who follow 1500 people, but have only 1 update?! Or when you mention a product (innocently) in a tweet and you’re being followed by a related company the next day?
Dawn (sheIsTooFondOfBooks)’s last blog post..Audiobook giveaway: *The Scarecrow* by Michael Connelly
Like you, I’m sometimes very surprised (and scared) by some of the people who follow me. . . can’t figure out why they would follow!
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