Law Students

Get Your Twitter On

By Erik Schmidt

John Infante’s “Summer of Zero Tip #5: Get on Twitter” post in the blog Fearfully Optimistic advocates giving Twitter a try. As someone who started some time last year, didn’t grok it, then got into it full swing the second time around, I second the recommendation. Once I started using Twitter comfortably, I found my use of Facebook, IM, and RSS declining.

Once you sign up, go out and grab a free Twitter client like Nambu (which is quite polished and handy). Once you use a Twitter client, you’ll never want to use the Twitter site again; just as with IM, a dedicated client application provides a much better experience. It’s a nonlinear medium, which is why making sense of it can be difficult. But give it a while and you may find it useful. Feel free to follow me (subscribe to my tweets), of course. My Mac Law Students Twitter account is, surprisingly, @maclawstudents.

Twitter has been hyped, and it has been bashed. But as I pointed out in a post on my other blog in April, like any mainstream communications technology it can be used for the sublime as well as the ridiculous.

Full post as published by Mac Law Students on July 02, 2009 (boomark / email).