I find twitter to be quite different than Facebook. There is more control over the content that you are following. It is very simple and easy to follow and post to. Much more like text messaging. Where Facebook is a social group intermingling with each other, playing games, answering quizes, and a myriad of other activities - twitter more just a way to keep people up to date with 1 short sentence.
I have found my use for twitter, in letting those who follow me know when updates to my
Journal or
Imaging Media website have been made. I even decided a couple of nights ago that twitter was a good way to publish a link to little snippet videos that I will put together under the title of "My Thought For Today" This was the first one that I threw together and posted on twitter recently - not very pollished, but you've got to start some place:
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In the few days that I have been signed up to twitter, I find it a better tool for keeping people up to date with what I have going on with my photography and web design, than Facebook. I use Facebook with only my children, so that I can see the pictures they are posting. I wouldn't want clients to know all of our personal business and things that we are doing. I suppose a separate Facebook account would be in order to socialize with customers, if that is what I chose to do.
For those who aren't familiar with what "twitter" looks like - here is a screenshot of my complete twitter workspace. You can see it is quite sparce compared to social sites like Facebook and Myspace:
Here is closeup showing the textbox where I put my entry up to 140 characters - - - as well as showing how the "following" and followers" are separated so that you have total control over who you wish to follow and who can follow you. This is the "Home" page. If I were on the "Profile page which is the actual twitter url
twitter.com/robertwatcher, only my tweets would show:
I have found several valuable sites to follow using twitter - such as "Reuters Pictures", "Scott Kelby", "Strobist", "Sean McCormack" from Lightroomblog, "Matt Cutts" from Google, " Joe McNally ", "Moose Petersen" and a few more. Also a couple of days ago as the new Olympus E-P1 was being unveiled, twitter provided me with a play by play from a few of the guys that were at the release and we were all anticipating what it would be and look like - together. Links to posts of blogs etc were provided as things were progressing.
