This post was guest blogged by Simon Koldyk
Jarel just recently started on Twitter.com; but, I think we might of gotten him hooked. If you haven’t already go and sign-up on Twitter.com with your name even if you don’t think you want to Twitter just yet, your name might get taken later.
There are a couple of keys to Twitter
- Its always a lot more fun to be following a bunch of people
- Don’t worry about how many people are following you
- Post interesting stuff, I don’t care that you just went to the bathroom
- Twitter is for conversations remember to use the @ command.
The conversations that go on twitter are amazing, everything people are thinking about is brought up and interesting things turn into huge Twitter conversations that can span on to hundreds of people. In twitter you could type “@personsusername say something here” and Twitter will treat that as your talking to them.
There are a few people that I think you should be following.
Once you have a few people you like following you want to use Twubble, it’s this neat little website that finds you new friends that you will probably also want to follow. Twubble gets this information from who you are already following and who they follow.
So now you’ve a few people you’re following and hopefully a few people are now following you back, you can’t always be checking Twitter.com or you’ll waste your whole day away. Thankfully some really smart people have created desktop apps – the two big ones are Twitterific (Mac) and Twhirl (Windows & Mac). Tweets will not show up on your desktop as they appear, although I do warn you that you may need to turn this off time to time to actually get some work done. Twitter is the new place for fast information and connections.
You should also follow Jarel and myself on Twitter 
Son of a bitch! (pardon my language) So it’s some big deal that Oprah is now on Twitter. I mean, people are acting like Jesus just showed up on the scene or something. You know what this means for Twitter and the real users of Twitter? A mass takeover by the technology illiterate soccer mom clan.
