The Musings of a Gypsy Yogini

This is brilliant. I’m not even sure why I’ve been so successfully sucked into the magical addictive world of Twitter, but I love it.

I’m still relatively new to it, so I’m not entirely hip to all of it’s uses, but I’ll give a brief explanation of what Twitter is… ready???

Answer the question “What are you doing?”, and do it in 140 characters or less. That’s all…. Then, you can pick and choose who you want to “follow”- these will be people you actually know- to complete strangers all over the world. When you check in with Twitter, you will see the updates of people you decided to follow/stalk… (I kid).

The first time I investigated what the hell the big deal was, I thought to myself, “Really?? That’s really stupid…”  and joined immediately. I sort of pride myself on not being a “joiner”, but decided to give this a few days to play around with. That was October- I think.

Since then, I’ve picked some pretty cool people to follow. In my case, fellow yoga lovers mostly. I also follow Tony Hsieh, CEO of Zappos because I think he rocks. He has 30,199 followers as of today- so the chances of him reading one of my posts is slim to none. BUT- he did! We have the same birthday and he sent me a direct message making me feel like a rockstar- I’m that easy to thrill.

Of the 44 people I follow, I actually only know one. The others are folks I feel like I’m getting to know- at least a little bit. It’s a fascinating little toy, and marketing tool. I would have never known about a couple of really sweet little yoga-related companies if not for Twitter.

SO… I love the networking tool that it is. I’ve become quite skilled in filling the quota of 140 characters to perfection. I hope to grow my network of people I follow into many more over the year…

All is good.