Twitter or twatter?
Posted on 26. Nov, 2008 by DocDelete in Projects
I’m not a big fan of the Twitter-scene – there I’ve said it. There seems to be a propensity for folk to get so wrapped up in it that they emit pellets of their lives, habitually. It’s that old mobile-phone on the bus thing: “I’m just on the bus now”, “I’m three mins away now”, “I’m getting off the bus now” yadda yadda yadda.
However, I don’t presume to talk down a genuine desire for friends and colleagues to keep in touch, to feel connected, to reach out in these days when more of us are tied to our PC screens for big chunks of the day.
Mike Robinson, creator of Mloovi, has tasked me with creating some graphics for MlooviTweet – and clearly I needed to sign up to Twitter to get a handle on the thing. I suppose I could have blagged the assignment without becoming a tweet merchant, but that’s hardly the best route is it?
Naturally, I feel the desire to connect the Twitter mechanism to my blog somehow. Some folk just publish their tweets in a sidebar widget or list, and leave it at that. I’ve decided to try to cross-fertilise both blog entries and tweets.
Before the purists amongst you rant on about horses-for-courses, and using the right tools for the right job, please let me explain…
I’m not an avid blogger. I pen blog entries in spurts, when the mood takes me, and when work allows. I feel I should do more, as this blogging thing doesn’t seem to hurt my graphic design business, quite the opposite in fact!
Anything that lubricates the blogging process is worth looking at. I use iGoogle as my browser homepage, and on that I’ve got a Twitter gadget that saves me opening up the main site. From there I can write tweets very easily – so why not then port them over into the blog? Quite often I feel I could comment on a news item, TV or radio prog, something in the street, etc. – but logging into WordPress on the spur of the moment is just downright disruptive to the workflow. However, punting a few choice words into a tweet box seems just the ticket.
Let’s see – I could be talking out of my botty, and not even bother doing that!
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