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Drinking the Twitter Kool-Aid

After kicking it around for a couple of weeks, I've gone ahead and joined Twitter. It looks like it's not going to be nearly as big a time suck as I feared, and I can use it through Gmail Chat, which I keep open all the time anyway. If it gets ridiculous, I can always bail on it, but I just couldn't hold off on trying it anymore.

If you're on Twitter, look me up, and we can follow each other around! :-) I'm florinda_3rs over there.

5 comments so far...

Kate - I'm following you too; send some tweets! :-)

Flag as inappropriate Posted by Florinda Pendley Vasquez on 12th May 2008
haha i will be following you!! But i am not so prolific with sending tweets... it's scary!

Flag as inappropriate Posted by Kate on 12th May 2008
Monawea and Veronica - I'm following both of you on Twitter now! :-)

Veronica - If you go to "devices" in your Twitter settings and enable IM, you enter your Gmail address and select GTalk as your IM client. You'll get a verification code. Add Twitter as a contact in Gmail and you should be good to go!

Monawea - I can already see what you mean, but so far it's not as distracting as I was afraid it would be.

Flag as inappropriate Posted by Florinda Pendley Vasquez on 6th May 2008
How do you use it via gmail chat?

Flag as inappropriate Posted by Veronica on 6th May 2008
Oh, no. You poor thing. You drank the cool-aid. It's all over for you. You might as well shave your head as well. ;) . Twitter is very cool for meeting people and networking but can also be a huge distraction. I have had to set "Twitter allowed" hours so that I can actually get work done.
Thanks for sharing. I am going to follow you now. You can follow me @monawea.

Flag as inappropriate Posted by monawea on 6th May 2008