By Patricia Seybold, CEO & Sr. Consultant/Analyst, Patricia Seybold Group
In the
past few months, the Twitter phenomenon has reached epic proportions.
Personally, I chalk this up to the malaise that is gripping us all as
we struggle to make sense of both the economic crisis and the political
seismic shifts that are upon us. Not content to consume news media and
blogs, we now all want to make sense of it, to share our observations,
and most of all to connect. So this odd 140-character microblogging
platform, known as Twitter, has ballooned in importance. In the last
week, the Financial Times
published a full-page article about Twitter. U.S. Congresspeople
tweeted during Obama’s speech to the joint houses of Congress, and
Keith Olbermann’s CountDown described the Congressional "Twits tweeting," and John Stewart ran a great spoof on the new Congressional pastime of tweeting.
(The software is called Twitter; the short messages you send are called
“tweets.” And yes, anyone who IS anyone is doing it.) The best way to
get up to speed on Twitter in my opinion is to use the Twitter How To's
and links at Mashable. Feel free to drop me a note. My twitter handle is pattyinboothbay.
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