Twitter for the Creative Mac User
Twitter had a banner year in 2008. Seventy percent of Twitter's membership joined last year, at an estimated 5,000 to 10,000 accounts per day.
You may be wondering what all they hype is about. Is it just another chat client? Well, sort of. Twitter refers to itself as a micro-blogging service, where users can type 140 characters or less and have it instantly appear in the Twittosphere for the world--or, more important, for the people who "follow" you on Twitter--to read. Think of it as text messaging to a group of people all at once. But how can this be useful or productive to the average creative Mac user?
I'm one of those people who jumped on the bandwagon last year, and at first I asked the same questions. It wasn't long before I found a use for Twitter that fit nicely into my daily routine. I don't use Twitter as a random chat service like so many users. You won't find me tweeting about what I had for breakfast this morning, or what I'm watching on TV. Well, maybe a little bit--you don't want to be all business, all the time. But for the most part, I use it as a resource for finding links to interesting articles, software, trends, and communicating with other Mac users with similar interests.
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