So I’ve gotten a twitter account (twitter.com/mibgames if you care) and I’ve noticed a couple of things.
I get followed occasionally by a complete stranger, and I look at their profile. Some of them are following nearly 2000 people. Surely that defeats the point of twitter? I follow only people I either personally know, or people I admire in the podosphere and feel they might say something interesting. But other than that I’m only interested in kearing what interestng people have to say.
Secondly, Twitter came up trumps the other night on Launch night at the Guardian. We had a question that we couldn’t answer, and were worried about something. I twittered to one of the devs on the team, and lo and behold 5 minutes later he walked into the office to find out what we wanted. It turned out he was in the pub just down the road, and got my twitter so popped in to see if he could help. It was a moment that I don’t think I’ll ever forget.