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Why do you use twitter?
I was preparing this article as a draft last week and in the meantime i saw a tweet from Martha Stewart asking her followers the question why do you use twitter? So the timing was impeccable i just had to respond in two 140 tweets (!) with the following:
i use twitter to 1) keep up-to-date professionally in the web field 2)keep in contact with fellow professionals
3) share my ideas 4) express my personality 5) hobbies + interest
The reason i had to tweet twice was because i thought …wait… my twitter usage has developed rapidly from the original aim to tweet for professional use i now also find myself using it for expressing my personal life.
Crossing the boundary
The original intention to use twitter for professional use only, quickly changed when it became apparent that if one posted only work related tweets it could soon become a robotic process with no real personality and that would certainly not be a true picture of me.
I feel i have crossed the boundary with tweeting on work and home and this is how social networking succeeds with real people, real lives, real thoughts, real situations communicated over the web, it is what connects us all and certainly a boundary worth crossing.
You can view Martha Stewart’s survey on why we use twitter on her blog.
