I'm now on Twitter
Wednesday, March 2, 2011 | Permalink
As with all kinds of "social" stuff, I'm late to jump onto the bandwagon. I transformed my personal homepage to a blog long after blogging turned cool.
I joined Facebook long after everyone else did. Seemed like a waste of time to me. Eventually I kind of realized the value of it, it keeps you connected to a lot of people that you otherwise would not keep in touch with. Although it's true it can easily become a time sink. You just need to learn to filter out the noise.
So this Twitter thing came along. For a long while I thought it was pretty pointless. Well, recently I've been reading some people's twitter regularly and kind of realized the value. It's a great way to share thoughts, links and short insights to other people that might be interested. Things you have no time to write a lengthy blog post about, or don't really make sense in blog form. Of course, it's a matter of following the right people. So I finally signed up. And I even tweeted. I have no idea how frequently I will tweet, but I'm sure I will have something of interest once in while.
An unfortunate consequence of being late is that the name "Humus" tends to be taken. So I will be known as "_Humus_" on twitter. Back in 1998 or so when I picked up this nickname it was rather unique. It was never taken if I signed up for something. Guess I didn't compete with as many people back then as with the global mainstream services of today, besides probably being more of an early adopter back then.
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