Yay, I'm a twit

[drwex]

I joined Twitter. I couldn't come up with a clever handle so I'm there under my wallet name if you want to find me. I'm looking for suggestions of who or what it would be useful to follow.

Comments

[hammercock.livejournal.com]

Define "useful" as it pertains to you? :-}

I'm on there as fabredhead.

Useful is sort of

[drwex]

interesting or informative or funny or known to me or has good things to say

AND

not spammy.

[asciikitty.livejournal.com]

Warren Ellis has interesting internets, but he posts often. I am not worth following, because I post quarterly at best. I find Maureen Johnson interesting to follow, but she posts about 50000 times a day. um. yeah.

[catness.livejournal.com]

I look at twitter every 3 or 4 months. It doesn't really enhance my life, and I'm not sure why you think it should enhance yours. It's a lot of work, and I already have a job. Which pays.

It is sort of my job

[drwex]

Oversimplified a lot, my job is understanding how people interact with technologies and companies' technological products. It seems like Twitter is (or will become) a significant part of that. I think it's valuable for me to learn about it.

Re: It is sort of my job

[catness.livejournal.com]

Twitter *is* a significant part of how some people interact with companies and products, and has been for some time. But I think you're coming in on the tail end of that usefulness, as people begin to realize they're getting too much information and are starting to filter *out* everything that isn't extremely relevant to them. Like information pertaining to their jobs/active interests, and their immediate circle of friends.

[desiringsubject.livejournal.com]

Me on twitter:
I have a locked twitter feed under this name where I post the mundane ("wow, I just made a cool dinner!") the salacious (Insert naked thought here, including a recent discussion with sparkymonster about my recent amazing dream with Taye Diggs doing a naked dance for me), or stuff about my students. I follow only people I know and then only people who are using twitter for roughly the same thing.

I have a public feed under my domain name where I RT news items, live-tweet conferences, and such like. I have a lot of indigenous and POC news related things there, politics, a whole little cadre of Twitterricans, a bunch of digital humanities folk, some famous and semi-famous scholars, and it's a professional networking place for me.

The former is just basically another social network and I could take it or leave it. The latter has become an important part of my branding as a scholar and has already led to several good opportunities, one of which may well soon be a publication!

[desiringsubject.livejournal.com]

P.S. When I understand which you'll be more likely to be interested in, I'll follow you from the relevant account.

Hrm

[drwex]

I _think_ I'm interested in both. Obviously the salacious and student stuff is of interest to me. But I also think I'm interested in the indigenous and POC thing. Certainly you and sparkeymonster are two of my best sources for things I should read in that area.

I think I'm still kind of new to this and don't know enough.

Re: Hrm

[desiringsubject.livejournal.com]

Well I followed you from this account. If you don't expect to be tweeting things I'd be likely to find professionally interesting, I wont follow you from both. There are only one or two people I follow from both, but feel free to follow my prof feed!