One week on Twitter

Tonight at 1:21 a.m. marks exactly one week that I've been on Twitter. Now if you've read a lot of my posts here, you probably know I've written why I wasn't on Twitter. The first post was about how I didn't think Twitter was useful to me. The second post was a list of how people can use Twitter as a tool for various things and how I managed to do the same things without it. So what happened?

In all honesty, I was bored. I tend to try something new when I'm bored, and last week that was Twitter. I signed up as digitalfare and followed people I subscribe to on YouTube and a few sites I often read. My Tweets so far have been about things I might blog about, except I don't want to write a whole post so it's just a quick remark on Twitter. You can see my most recent Tweets in the sidebar to the right.

I check my RSS feeds, Digg, and Delicious bookmarks, and now Twitter is another way for me to get information. The 140-character limit allows me to determine at a glance if something interests me or if I'll continue skimming the stream.

I found out about BEDA on Twitter, actually, and now I'm blogging every day of April. I haven't mentioned yet that part of BEDA is to promote Maureen Johnson's book, Suite Scarlett, that comes out in paperback May 1. You can check it out at Amazon here. I haven't read any of her books yet, so that might be where I start.