djByron [Dan Byron]husband, father, christian, musician & technophile ( but not a dj )

Fellow Twitterer from Seattle Twittered this today and I just wanted to second his motion.

“Ain’t Twitter great? meeting so many cool people from all over the world, i love it” - dustindk

I joined twitter in August of 2007 but didn’t actually start using it until this month. I’m not sure what inspired me, or how I found my first “friend” on there but once I found one, it was easy to find many more with similar interests.

For those of you not familiar with Twitter take a minute to watch the video. Some of you may ask, “why do I want another social website, I already have a Facebook account, a Myspace, etc?” For me Twitter fills in the gaps where those sites leave off. Plus it’s really easy to use. You don’t have to go to Twitter.com to use the service if you don’t want to. There are numerous third party apps in addition to the native IM and SMS support. For me I do a couple things. I have Twhirl running all the time which is a small desktop app for Windows and Mac that allows you to receive and post updates, respond, direct message and pretty much every other aspect of the service without having to touch a browser. Occasionally, I’ll use Google Talk or Gmails built-in chat to follow in real-time as well. When I’m out and about I can post status updates via SMS (text message) and even follow other’s updates all from my cell phone (just make sure you have a text plan to support it

So what do you post? Anything and everything from simple “what are you doings,” to questions a friend may be able to answer for you, pictures, blog update notifications… Yea basically anything. Well…. Maybe not anything.