Harnessing the Power of Twitter

Yes, after holding out and dismissing Twitter as a fad, I've finally relented and started my account.

Personally, I just didn't get it before. Warren Ellis first write about Twitter way back before it was leaped upon as the darling of the online marketing circuit, but a brief investigation convinced me that it was as unnecessary distraction.

With more and more blog posts appearing extolling the virtues of Twitter, I became interested again, but still cynical. After all, do I really want to add another intrusive social media past-time into my already cramped day?

But as more bloggers I admire sign up and evangelise, I'm beginning to feel there is a greater risk of being left behind.

The final nail in my cynicism was Patrick Altoft's post on Blogstorm this morning that explained how Twitter serves as a secondary subscription feed - driving traffic through to the site.

And that was it. My conversion was complete.

So I'm now on Twitter. You can follow my posts if you want to stay up to date. Also, send your Twitter profiles here so I can follow some of you fine people.