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This pattern of leaves greeted me when I went to close up our small pool for the season (I’m a few weeks late this season, hmm, wonder why? Twitter came to mind looking at how the leaves were grouped. While engaged in social media, it seems hard to realize how few and how dispersed we are. Even as the number of registered users keeps growing, how many can one really connect with at any one time. Every week or so I enjoy trying to weave in and out of the ‘Everyone’ stream. It hasn’t been very productive in terms of making lasting connections, but the techniques I develop trying to connect in that way are improving my overall Twitter practice. I’ve learned to drop the niceties and attempt to pick up the intent of the conversation.
Over the last week I swam further out into the Twitter stream by design, inviting many people to consider participating with me in this arena. I realized that if I was to ever find the people I’m writing this blog for, I had to go out and engage others who are in the game and let them figure out if what I have to say is of use to them. Simply put, rejection isn’t an issue. I’m not selling. Perhaps I’m spewing, but from a place that attempts to posit whatever integrity of voice and story I can muster.
That goes for the different threads I’m able to weave on Twitter as well. I’m learning that the give and take that unfolds on Twitter can truly be micro-blogging, not just “here’s a link to my blog ads.” Of coarse Twitter is about serving content as well. And to that end, without Twitter, my blog would not have one one hundrith of the traffic.
What are you learning on Twitter? Are you finding more than you expected?
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