Ok, I caved – I’m on Twitter

After being mercilessly pressurized by many people (and I blame Jason Massie the most), I've joined Twitter and I'll be commenting lots on it. Why did I finally cave? Well, I've been seeing lots of little things in forums and newsgroups that don't merit a full blog post but are worth letting people know about. So – feel free to follow along. My username is 'PaulRandal' – original, huh? I'm sure I'll get just as sucked into Twitter as I have to FaceBook – luckily I can type fast :-)

Enjoy!

PS You might not find me in Twitter search until I've posted a few times – try http://search.twitter.com/

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6 thoughts on “Ok, I caved – I’m on Twitter”

mj says:

April 29, 2009 at 10:32 am

This is probably appropriate:

http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/space/04/27/falling.into.black.hole/

Now you can visualize being sucked into the internet.

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mj says:

April 29, 2009 at 3:17 pm

You may want to think about how much time you invest into Twitter.

http://tech.yahoo.com/news/nm/20090429/tc_nm/us_twitter_6

Apparently 60% of new users stop using it after 1 month.

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Geil Hohenstein says:

April 29, 2009 at 11:39 am

People are loosing their ability to focus and listen. Their thoughts and minds are becoming fragmented and now you are contributing to societies downfall.

Learn to meditate instead:
http://www.amazon.com/Attention-Revolution-Unlocking-Power-Focused/dp/0861712765

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Geil Hohenstein says:

April 29, 2009 at 11:40 am

P.S. I love chapter 11 in the new book, but then again I have the attention span longer than 140 characters! ;-)

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Jimmy May, Aspiring Geek says:

April 29, 2009 at 1:10 pm

Congratulations to @PaulRandal & @KimberlyLTripp! Be sure to check out & update http://www.tinyurl.com/sqltwits
Sincerly, @aspiringgeek

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paul says:

April 29, 2009 at 3:19 pm

No worries there – I live online already.

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