Those of you who know and appreciate Eddie Izzard will be very pleased to hear that he is on Twitter. This announcement comes only a week after I told you that Christopher Walken is also on Twitter and twits (tweets? twats?) the most hilarious tweets (twats?) on a daily basis.
For those of you who still don’t know what Twitter is, just go to www.twitter.com and sign in. From there you can search for people to “follow” and every time they tweet or twat or whatever you want to call it, it will show up on your Twit page. So you can add 2oceansvibe as a starting point (click here for that) and then check out the people I’m following / following me, and add some of them as well if you want. You’ll find the likes of John Cleese , Stephen Fry , Britney Spears (I know), Snoop Dogg , Christopher Walken and then tons of our local Twitter crew, including professionals in every sphere. I had lunch with Bob Skinstad today and he’s sold on it too! I’ll let you know when he’s rocking and rolling on Twitter!
And THEN, once you start Twitting (anything you want, ideas, thoughts, photos), people will start to follow YOU! Every time YOU tweet it will show up on their page. Then you can go even further and download it (Twitter software) onto your phone and twit from there. If you see something funny, you can snap a pic and send out a message with the pic – which everyone following you will see. If they like it, they can do a “retweet” which will forward the message to all of their “followers” (like Jesus, but different). Some of their followers might enjoy it and start following you as well.
It’s quite fun and fiercely viral. Very useful if you “think out the box.” Like today, during lunch with Skinstad, I sent out a Twitter with a photo of him, saying that he was available for questions for the next 20 minutes. People sent in some hilarious questions from all over the world and got immediate answers.
When you start getting used to it then you can download Twitter software (I use Tweetdeck) for your computer which provides a live feed of all twits that you’re following, as well as your own, and replies to your twits/tweets/twats.
In fact, MOST of the online blogging to do with last night’s Cape Town fire, originated on Twitter – with people near the fire taking pics and sending to their Twitter, eventually spiraling onto the blogs. Like my post this morning.
Check out this article on grub street, showcasing how “traditional media” got outstripped by Twitter and Blogs regarding last night’s fire. Great example..
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