Tweet!

Something odd has been happening lately. People have started following my on Twitter. I have a Twitter account (like everyone else does) but I rarely use it because I am not sure what exactly it is used for. Micro-blogging, I am told, is it’s purpose. But really? I know I tend to post relatively short blogs anyway, but do I really need to mirco-blog? I’m going to give it some more thoughts on what to use Twitter for. In the mean time, I was just curious if how my fellow book bloggers feel about Twitter and how do you use it?

In case you wanted to follow me thebookpirate is my twitter name.

8 Responses to “Tweet!”

  1. Chris Says:

    There's something about twitter that is just entirely appealing…don't know what it is exactly, but it's become like a whole different side to book blogging…I use it mostly to post about non-book related shtuff.

  2. The Book Pirate Says:

    Do you get the tweets sent to your phone or do you read your friend's tweets online?

  3. Chris Says:

    I do both…I mostly use my phone though. I have an iphone and there's an application that I downloaded that's basically,well..twitter for the iphone.

  4. chartroose Says:

    I'm too much of a curmudgeon to use Twitter. Maybe I should check it out again. Is there something I'm missing?

  5. The Book Pirate Says:

    Curmudgeon. Fantastic word.

    I'm missing something too. But I hope to embrace in because everybody else is and I want to be cool.

  6. Ali Says:

    I use Twitter for little OT conversations with other bloggers. And to announce blog posts, sometimes. And to state inane things about my life that amuse me. I'm following you now (I'm Alirambles).

  7. Ali Says:

    I use Twitter for little OT conversations with other bloggers. And to announce blog posts, sometimes. And to state inane things about my life that amuse me. I'm following you now (I'm Alirambles).

  8. Weekend Roundup: January 27-February 2 |  Says:

    [...] -Asks how you use twitter? [...]

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Since January 2008 I have been using this blog to write about the books i've read and other book related news that I find interesting. I also find pirates interesting so from time to time I may blog about pirates. I see this as killing two birds with one stone.

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