Twittering all day long?
by RT
I get up around 7a. Leave for work around 8a. When I get to the j-o-b, I hit the ground running. Maybe I eat lunch. If I do, it’s at my desk. Perhaps it’s my choice, but I have ish to do.
It’s full speed ahead until around 6-ish, sometimes later. I make it home around 7:30 or 8. When I do, I log onto Twitter (via Twitterific), where I’m greeting with googobs of tweets from folks who have been tweeting…
…all…
…day…
…long.
I think I’m missing something.
I need your help. Please tell me, if you’re a daylong Twitter, please tell me what type of job, or life, you have that allows you to Twitter…
…all…
…day…
…long…
and tell me where to send my CV.
I’m a librarian who works on bringing Web 2.0 tools to my library. Our library has a Twitter account (http://twitter.com/VPL) which I update, so I might as well update my own twitter stream as well.
I almost downloaded twhirl, but getting distracted by the beeping on my partners computer…it was twittering every 2 seconds…scrapped it! trying to stay on this is sooo distracting…can hardly keep up, and then the friendfeed, plurk…and 20 others…maybe I need to check the prescription on my glasses.
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@Cecily – > Okay, I see how that blends in, but what happens if your boss sees your tweets?
@Eddie – > I’m reaching critical mass. I can’t keep up either. Decisions must be made.
I have two screens. One where I work. One where I tweet .
Send me your CV, we can see whether we can work together and I’ll give you half of my screen!
Seeing as how she spends a great deal of her time on Facebook, I don’t think she’d care.
@notafish – > But do you work for yourself? Or, if you don’t, is there not a policy of some sort?
I do work from home. But then, I work for Wikimedia, so social tools and such is the basis of it all. Don’t think there would be a policy against it.
@notafish – > Ahhh haaa!:-) Cool!
@Cecily – > LOL!
I work online
Work at home part time / stay at home mom. That makes it easy.
I create applications — commercial and custom — for Lotus Notes/Domino. To put it simply I’m a computer programmer. Anyway, the “Notes community” is vibrant and full of bloggers. When Twitter came along it wasn’t much of a leap to begin using it for micro-blogging. Most of those whom I follow and whom follow me do so from their workplace, although it is quickly spilling over into their personal life as well. Is it a distraction? Sometimes. But mostly there is actually some very useful conversation — for lack of a better word — that is helpful in my day-to-day job. I am generally on Twitter about 15 hours per day and check it often from my phone when away from the computer. Am I addicted? I don’t think so, I just find it immensely useful, informative, and a great way to have a friendship of sorts with other people who share my line of work.
@Corey – > Wait. Stop. Fifteen hours? What is your offline life like because of that?
I think I average about 10 tweets a day. I try to keep an eye on my Twitter stream throughout the day. But that’s not always possible. It is a little amazing to me how some people average 30-50 (or more) tweets a day.
I work as a front-end web developer at a company that is lenient when it comes to employees and personal web use. In fact, we’ve created company profiles on the most popular social media spaces. including Twitter. Expect me to go private soon (heh).