A year with Twitter

August 21st 2008 at 09:36 I stepped into the Twitter arena. Happy 1st Birthday to my Twitter persona.

With that in mind I thought I would interview myself:

Have you learned anything new about yourself? No.

Have you changed? Yes.

Are you going to tell the nice people how you have changed? No, it is a personal thing. Let’s just say I am more human.

Do you enjoy Twitter? When it works, yes. I did not like it when they changed the @reply system and I still do not like the lack of seeing all conversations.

How would you make Twitter better? I would invest in the stability of the product before prettying up the site. Functionality is more important than looks in this case.

Are you selling anything on Twitter? No

Well if you are not selling anything why are you using Twitter? I am using Twitter to converse with folk and learn from them. I originally just wanted to use Twitter in a professional way, just for my IT tech stuff. You know ask IT related questions and share ideas. But that soon became secondary. Why? Well I enjoyed the conversations more than the geekery. Connecting with another human half way across the world is awesome. Connecting with a person halfway across the world and sharing the same ideas and views or debating even more awesome.

Do you think you will be on Twitter in 5 years time? Not to the extent I am these days. I may use other products that feed into Twitter but I am not sure. Those who know me know I have a constant struggle balancing the online offline stuff. I really should unhook more and go off and exercise. Also the benefit of unhooking means when you return you have something to talk about. So my future plans for me and Twitter are up in the air. I could leave tomorrow and not come back, who knows.

What was your first Twitter Avavtar? This one (pictured below)

What is your current Twitter Avatar? This one (pictured below) I changed it from red to yellow because I think it looks cleaner.

I just want to say a big thank you to those who have put up with me. I know earlier in the year I had lots of ups and downs, there were reasons for that and those reasons were in an earlier blog post called “Hell” I think I have seen the back of that now.

I am also really excited to be working with Steph on doodurls without Twitter we would never have met. So thank you Twitter for that.

But I really mean it thank you to all those who still follow, I hate the term follow so I shall say a huge thank you to those who have remained my friend through this year that I have been on Twitter. You do mean a great deal to me.

Why did you not vlog this? I did not vlog this as my first blog was a written one so it seemed fitting that this one should be.