I’ll tell you right now that this is another post about twitter. I am fully aware that twitter has been blogged/discussed/etc to death, but for some reason there’s always more to say.

I just finished reading a great blog post that follows along really nicely with some things I spoke about at the SUNY SOLSummit yesterday so I wanted to be sure to comment on it. The post is here, from one of my new favorite blogs, brandflakesforbreakfast. Here’s a little snippety-snip from the post:

John Doe – “I hate Twitter”
Jamie – “Why?”
John Doe – “I don’t want to know what somebody ate for breakfast!”
Jamie – “If you used Twitter, you would know it’s nothing like that”
John Doe – “I have used Twitter, and it’s exactly like that”
Jamie – “Maybe that’s because you’re not using Twitter in the best way?”

At this point I usually scuttle away to John Doe’s now defunct Twitter account to find his last Tweet that reads “Had sausage and eggs for breakfast. Eggs didn’t smell too good”.

Twitter is a tool, just like a hammer is a tool. If you are using a hammer to curl your hair, it will never work for you. Just like I mentioned at SUNY – twitter can work differently for different people, but you have to take some time to figure out what exactly it is that you want from it.