I have now been on Twitter for a little over a month. At first I was very lost and confused about the do’s and dont’s of Twitter etiquette. I would almost go as far as to say that I was a bit scared of yet another web application, sheesh they come they go so many this day and age. Finally I jumped on board and shortly after I got bit by the Twitter bug.
I signed up to Twitter knowing just a handful of people. I didn’t tweet often and didn’t check to see if I got an @ reply from anyone. It was nice being able to communicate with friends and family, but I didn’t quite understand what the Twitter craze was all about. Michael Arrington, Scoble, Jason Calacanis, and many other popular bloggers and such were all writing about Twitter with both good and bad reviews. I just didn’t see what the fuss was all about.
When I got my first follower that I did not know I thought they had the wrong person, but then I got another and another and another. Ha finally I start having conversations with people I don’t know and having a good ol time doing it. As the followers started coming in I started to loose track of conversations and plain couldn’t keep up with it.
Thanks to my wonderful Matt, he told me to get TweetDeck. Oh great another application for me to learn pfffft. Not looking forward to downloading and learning something new yet again but I did and my goodness it really helps keep track of conversations. A few of the key functions (in my opinion) are being able to tweet directly from Tweet Deck, separate your friends into different groups, and tweet in real time.
I know there are many 3rd party applications that you can use with Twitter but for right now I feel really comfortable using Tweet Deck. I will continue to read reviews of the others and see if maybe just maybe something else catches my eye.
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