Twitter Terminal Velocity

I’m catching the Twitter-bug. But I can’t say the attraction was immediate. At first, I thought, why would I want to know when so-and-so is doing their laundry?! Or just got 5 new projects?!Twitter can be annoying if you follow the people who post such things. But otherwise, it’s a great way to have your finger on the pulse of any network. For example, I heard about the Zucherberg and Lacy interview before anything was even posted. Twitter is not an exclusive club. Anyone can sign up and figure it out. But how can one effectively network when high-profile people use pseudonyms? I started by adding absolutely everyone. Everyone that my teacher follows, I now follow. Some guy posts something useful, I now follow as his followers. And so on. BuzzMachine, in a blog post, quotes political blogger Patrick Ruffini saying, “Traditional news operated on a 24-hour cycle. Blogs shortened this to minutes and hours. Twitter shortens it further to seconds. It’s not right for every piece of information. But when it comes to instantly assembling raw data from several sources that then go into fully baked news stories, nothing beats it.” Now I have more people to follow than god. I’ve surpassed my twitter terminal velocity. It’s not time to cut out the “laundry” people. Basically, if you don’t post a useful link or really enlightening comment, you’re gone. This is how I’m making Twitter work for me.