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Checking out Nat’s blog earlier today I noticed that he, too, has succumbed to the Twitter bug. His assessment of Twitter(ing) might be a tad harsh — I like to think of Twitter as blogging for people with really short attention spans, or as a nice form of Web-based text messaging…
I wonder if I should add Twittering to the methods I mentioned yesterday as a method of low-impact PR: don’t have time to write up a long post about project updates? Pop in a short note on Twitter. Create a Twitter account for your project that folks can watch for updates, and just drop a short note there daily or at least weekly.
Do enough people in openSUSE use Twitter for it to be worth using? My account is here, I’ll be updating it pretty frequently, though I can’t promise all the, uh, tweets (?), will be openSUSE-specific.
Using Twitter to market openSUSE is an interesting idea… I’m on Twitter (and I’m now following you, Zonker ;-)) and think it might actually work well. I mention something about openSUSE every now or then.
When I’m struggling with a chunk of code, I frequently throw it up on pastebin.com and Tweet the link. To-date, Twitter has solved 100% of my programming problems in under five minutes. It’s a very powerful resource if you take the time to contribute to the community in return. This could be a great use for Twitter for you in addition to a simple project status announcement tool.
I’d love for you to check out my blog post (in the link on this comment) on defining Twitter. At first, I considered it a micro-blogging platform, too, but it’s since pretty much changed every aspect of my life for the better.
@Marina - Wow that is a good idea. I’ll have to give that a try!