The value of Twitter....

I love the diversity of communication methods that we go through and the really clever people that come up with 'the next big thing'. I remember back in the days of #iRC (Internet Relay Chat) and Bulletin Boards and looking at where things are now, how we've progressed. I've been through all the networking sites in some shape or form. Firstly with friendsreunited,which I never found very friendly. Then on to Facebook, now become a bit dull, and finally on to Twitter.

I'm not one of these people that follows people because they are there. I'm not a celebrity watcher who reads Heat magazine and the like but there is something about following a few select 'celebrities on twitter that I find entertaining. There is also the information aspect, which for picking up little snippets that are useful can be quite powerful. Like any tool it has its downside, but by and large it works well.

I thought I'd share some interesting people to follow on Twitter as well as some of the people from Cobweb you can follow too. I think if nothing else it can show we are 'real people' that do 'real things' rather than being faceless keyboard warriors or people on the phone.

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Twitter links:-

This is me - http://twitter.com/dccarnage - Channel Manager and random witterings about nothing really important

This is Dan G - http://twitter.com/dan_germain He twits alot! CTO type stuff and bicycling type things :)

This is Dan N - http://twitter.com/dannoakes - Mobile device evangelist, action man and adventurer. Dan is your modern day (but cleverer) Bear Grylls

This is Mark A - http://twitter.com/MarktheMD - Not quite as prolific as the rest of us on Twitter but he is very busy with other things!

My choice of celebrities to follow purely down to quality of their updates:-

Stephen Fry - http://twitter.com/stephenfry

Jonathan Ross - http://twitter.com/Wossy

Alan Carr - http://twitter.com/AlanCarr (Comedian so caution advised!)

If you haven't got on Twitter yet, give it a go. It takes a while to get going but once you do, you'll wonder how you communicated without it!

Have fun!

Mark