erastes

Because I've definitely been converted to Twitter. *shock* Erastes gets blasphemous. What? You were surprised?

I never used to "get" Twitter at all. Or Facebook. Still don't get Facebook, to be honest, far too clunky to use and full of people I know nothing about.

but Twitter is incredibly useful. Not only is it a fun way of getting in touch with people and transmitting your news quickly and swiftly but I've found that almost a secondary function. It's amazingly handy for quick answers! Several times I've started a tweet with "Dear [company] moan moan moan" only to have the company reply in seconds with an answer and a solution! I've also had lovely IT geeks who must have alerts set up for buzz words (no idea how this is done) who have helped me with Tekkie problems. I've had companies that I've ordered check that I was happy with an order.

I've had communication with the local libraries about Pride events, got advice on books from the London Library and a Tweet site which specialises in 20th century London, ditto one of Victorian London.

It's not that great for promotion, to be honest, because unless someone goes to your page to see what you are up to (and I doubt people do that) your promo tweet soon gets subsumed by all the hundreds of others and unless you tweet it every hour, is less likely to be seen than a blog update. and if you update every hour, that's just irritating. But some people will do this…

anyhow. no agenda, just wanted to say that's its good to find a social network that actually works.