I am Twitter-holic

My name is Amelia and I am a Twitter-holic.

Although I do not tweet as much as some out there, I find it hard to get through a day if I don't tweet or check my Twitter feed. If Twitter got taken away the quality of my life would dramatically reduce (although the quality of my work might just increase...)

Its hard to explain to those non-Twits out there, but once you get addicted it is impossible to stop. When you're happy, when you're bored, when you're pissed off, when you've got a question, when you've got an answer - all of this are Twitter moments.

Twitter seems to have hit a bit of a Tipping Point (Twitting Point?) in the past 4-8 weeks and certainly I am seeing friends and colleagues on Twitter who I would never in a million years have imagined that would sign up. The issue for me and Twitter going forward is how to manage and segment this cacophony of tweets into some a bit more manageable.

Campaign asked me for my 2009 Resolutions and in fact number 2 was "Make my Twitter life more productive", so any Twitter-tips gratefully acknowledged!

Ta Rob for the cartoon!

www.twitter.com/nylonmeals
(for those who asked, nylon as in NY and London which is where I have spent most of the last decade and "Meals" as in short for Amelia)

Comments

[Mike Reed]

This is good to hear from a fellow addict (and mutual follower as @mikebreed)! Interesting about the Tipping Point (please, no more 'Tw-' words!) - I've found the same thing. & my follower numbers have gone nuts since new year, although I put this down to a deliberate effort by me to use Twitter better. I don't think I've ever had such an instant reaction - on Twitter, it seems doing the right thing brings instant rewards. Good.

[Stan Lee]

No comment. ;-)

[Willem van der Horst]

Yep...

The account handler making the most fun of my Twitter enthusiasm has been nagging me in the past week to look at using it in upcoming campaigns... Funny that I'm going from advocating stuff like that to now trying to explain it's not the answer to everything either. ;o)

About the whole tipping point, I wrote that in a comment somewhere else but I would say there is definitely a shift but probably not go as far as talking about a tipping point - at least if you're thinking of it going mainstream that is. Most people out there still have no idea what Twitter is and I remember reading that even at its current growth speed, Twitter would need something like over 30 years to overtake Facebook in number of users. Though of course that doesn't mean much, something similar was probably said about Facebook and Myspace or about Google and Yahoo at the time...

[AdFundAl]

I would highly recommend TweeDeck for managing Twitter.

You can create groups and segment the way you want to read an interact with followers and those you follow.

Also, has a handy flash window which alerts you when new tweets are made and what 'group' they are in i.e. friends, colleagues, stalkers etc.

Download here - http://www.tweetdeck.com/beta/

[Robin Grant]

Hey Amelia - some other people's thoughts on Twitter here:
http://wearesocial.net/blog/2009/01/why-do-people-use-twitter/

[Rob Mortimer]

I've never got into twitter much, I mainly use it through Blipfm.

[Dan]

Seem to be lots of conversations around Twitter at the moment - i reckon that you are right about it reaching a tipping point.

I picked up on this one recently, where they are focussed on more practical applications: http://kommein.com/twitter-obtaining-the-impossible/

[Krishna]

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