Twittering and other social networks, do you do it? If not , why not?

Follow me on Twitter @Wizardgold

I have been with Twitter for quite a while, I even got started while it was still very new but I didn’t do much with it until it really got popular. Now I have all my blog linked to Twitter so that people that follow my blogs have a instant way to see when I have posted up something new. Not everyone knows how to use RSS which is probably the best way to follow @Wizardgold because the articles I write get downloaded directly to you RSS Feed Reader.
My RSS Feed Reader of choice is a web page called Netvibes. I have it as my home page so that all I have to do is to swap to that tab in my Browser and I have the web that I am interested in come to me.

I like to use ping.fm to post to a whole load of social networks all at the same time. It send to Plurk, Facebook, Bebo, Twitter of course and many others. Just to make sure that I don’t miss anyone.

Stephen Fry recently mentioned Twitter on the Johnathan Ross @Wossy Friday night TV show and added 13,000 new followers at the drop of a hat. Ah the joys of being famous. Even the new President of the USA has a twitter account. John Cleese is a tweeter. @bobbyllew is Kryton from the Red Dwarf and he is allways posting his stuff on Twitter.

I follow some people because they are top tweeters for the extra followers I get from being connected and then I follow some people that are friends, people I have met like @DonMcAllister who does Screencasts online ( Great for learning how to do stuff with your Mac)

There are some people that are useless to follow and post only crappy posts about what they are having for breakfast. I prefer to get into conversations and post when I have been doing something interesting like the results from a day using BetBotPro for example. Whether I won money or lost money.

I use Tweedeck to organise my viewing of Twitter posts and at the moment I have a Group that is Mac users and then all the rest. Lately though I have more that are twittering about sports and sports betting and trading in the Tweets so I will be setting up another group or two.

Here is a post which will tell you how to increase your followers on Twitter, by Kevin Rose. I use a service which does an auto follow of people that follow me and sends out a welcome message to the new follower also. Sometimes I have to do an unfollow if the tweeter is sending out complete drivel and stuff I don’t want in my twitter feed, but I have not had to do that too often so far.

So climb on board the bandwagon and get yourself a Twitter account if don’t already have one.

Follow me on Twitter @Wizardgold