By Jason Brunk Bayshore IT

This is indeed the question these days.  Do I Twitter or not?  Do you?

I have a couple of Twitter accounts.  I have a personal account and I have a website account.  How do I use them you ask?  I am glad you asked, otherwise I would have nothing to write about.  My personal account I use all the time.  But I do not use it to tell people I am sitting on the couch eating cereal and watching cartoons.  No one cares about that.  Why would you?  What I do use it for is to update my tiny group of followers to random stuff, like events I am going to that others might want to meet up with us at.  I update people when I do my charity work.  I do NOT tell people when I am eating cereal.  I use it daily to get updates on other stuff.  For instance, I follow the NASA Twitter account and get updates on new info from the Kepler project. 

For my second account, I use this as a website account.  I use this to update people about a project site I am working on.  People want to know when there is new information on the site, so a Twitter account allows those people to get updates when we have new information up.  

So, the whole world is going crazy for Twitter.  If you use it responsibly and only when necessary it’s a good thing.  When you misuse it and make it common place, you shoot yourself in the foot.

Keep this in mind when developing your Social Networking Strategy.  Have separate accounts for each area of interest or for the types of people that you are communicating to/with.  Your followers will have a clear understanding of what you are micro-blogging about and whether or not they want to follow.