Technically, it’s only five days since I joined. I’m loving it. Visit my page at http://twitter.com/JoeHage.

You need to join.

For the uninitiated and according to Wikipedia, Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that allows its users to send and read other users’ updates (otherwise known as tweets), which are text-based posts of up to 140 characters in length.

1. I found 25 people to “Follow.” When each of these folks posts a comment, it shows up on my Home Page.

2. 20 people “Follow” me. Six of them (30 percent) are people I’ve never heard of before. They found me though a comment I left on Chris Brogan’s blog. Never heard of him before Monday when The Communicatrix (of Southwest Airline Blog-o-spondent fame) directed me to her de.li.cio.us profile. On it, Chris’ blog about Twitter was favorited hundreds of times so I looked further and began to follow him.

3. The Communicatrix taught me how to make a hyperlink in Twitter. When I complained that the 140-character limitation screwed [Read more...]