There are a million reasons someone might start using Twitter. For the longest time, I stayed away from it. Now I am a fairly active Tweet’er. Why you might ask?
I was the outsider.
I know, I am a wuss. I am fine with it. Cameron and Pat finally convinced me I was missing out on something big, and I was.
I signed up, and started Twittaling. To my surprise, I started liking it. In a few hours, I was able to quickly start joining groups (or Tribes as Seth Godin would call them). Interaction within these groups is why I am now a believer. For example, I already blogged about attending Code Camp. I mentioned something huge in that post.
Through Code Camp, blogging, and **Twitter** I have joined a community of developers much larger than Mailtrust’s.
I am now actively participating in a new group after this weekend. If all the presenters just had blogs (which many of them did), I don’t think this would have happened. Why? Because most people don’t blog often. And second, when people do write something it is usually a few minute committment to read.
I blog to teach and learn.
I Twitter to participate.
Don’t worry though. I love blogging, and still plan on blogging the same amount. Where blogging lacks in interaction, it has much richer content. I can’t learn what DDD is on Twitter. I can by reading some good blogs.