Some of my friends swear by Twitter. Tweet tweet, OMG, it's a message on my cell phone letting me know one of my friends just ate a Twinkie.

Uh, oh, Zeke has the flu and Monique has the flu. ( I suppose they know each other.)

Some of my friends swear at Twitter. It's like teens text messaging only we all get to enjoy it.  read more »

Last week on Twitter someone drew attention to a new BMW ad that would have been right at home in the mid-70s. That was the time when I taught newswriting classes at Temple University Center City and had a large collection of newspaper articles and ads that featured derogatory portrayals of women. I tweeted that I’d already been part of this battle. Did we really have to fight it again?  read more »

On Monday (I forgot to post on Communati) I posted about using http://Twitter.com to research internship possibilities and described the Twitter client application Summize. Such is the speed of the internet that this info was out of date just as I posted. Because, also on Monday, Twitter announced it had just acquired Summize and that the URL for this feature is now http://search.twitter.com.  read more »

Social media – Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc. – are internet platforms, I’ve learned, that fit with my personality. I’ve been listening to several free teleseminars this week about using the internet for business purposes. One main theme is that you have to give and give before you get.  read more »

Twitter, Twhirl, Flock, Plurk – No, I’m not talking in Klingon. I’m naming a few of the new social media applications available on the web. And if you’re young – say a business major in college – you want to learn about these applications sooner than later. Why? Because this new frontier will be your world.  read more »

Yesterday a post in the email newsletter of Joan Stewart – www.publicityhound.com – resonated with me because I had had a similar thought a day earlier when responding to an evite.  read more »

Since writing the previous post about Twitter, I’ve been experimenting with some Twitter ideas provided by Penny Sansevieri in the May 29th issue of her newsletter. Penny’s website is www.amarketingexpert.com.  read more »

Just when you’ve got MySpace and Facebook figured out – carefully balancing “fun” with maintaining a professional image – comes Twitter, a micro-blogging platform that offers you the ability to send messages (tweets) of 140 characters -- not 140 words.  read more »

I signed up for twitter.com a few months ago. I took a look at it and I said, "This is stupid - why would people care what I'm doing?"

Now, I understand it to be a good promotional tool. The people who care decide to follow you. And in turn, you tell them about your day.  read more »

I signed up for twitter a few months ago after I saw it on my mybloglog.com profile. I didn't understand what the point was, so I ignored it.

I still don't know what the point is, but I've realized that I love it! And the key to making this site work is to add your friends. It took me a few days, but I finally figured out how to "follow" people.  read more »