In 2008, my first impression of Twitter was that it was really kind of dumb and useless. It asked “What are you doing?” and many people obligingly (and boringly) answered this question – having a grande half-caf latte in Starbucks, watching a TV show, etc. Who cared? Very few. NOT me!
But, a friend convinced me to try it for a couple of days, and I discovered that I was very wrong about Twitter being dumb OR useless.
Twitter is excellent for many things and has opened a whole new online world for me: (more…)

