Mark Evans

Climbing on the Twitter Bandwagon…Reluctantly

Here’s something I never thought would happen: I’ve decided to Twitter.

After enthusiastically dissing Twitter as inane, email-lite and a 140-character weakling, I’ve finally decided to join ‘em rather than beat ‘em.

How come? For one, Twitter is what it is - another communications platform being embraced to complement e-mail, text-messaging, VoIP, etc. Like Facebook, it’s a new and efficient way that people are using to tell other people what’s going on and what they’re thinking - albeit in brief bursts.

But like I use Facebook, Twitter is going to be a professional tool. I’m not going to tell people what I had for breakfast or whether I’m sore from shoveling snow or whether I had too many chocolate chip cookies over the holidays. I don’t think people really care about this stuff, and as much as everyone likes to share everything online these days (privacy be damned!), some part of your life should stay personal and private.

Instead, Twitter will be a tool to talk about what’s happening at where I work, PlanetEye; a way to promote blog posts through Twitterfeed; and a tool to raise issues, share ideas, and seek feedback.

For anyone interested in following my Twitter feed, it’s twitter.com/markevans.

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