Resistance was futile: I registered at twitter.com
Jan 16th, 2010 by philipp
For years have I been resisting the temptation of joining twitter and Facebook. Yesterday, at 4:30 pm I made the final step and registered at twitter.com after I had joined Facebook a couple of month ago to stay in touch with people I met here in Sweden. But why did I register with twitter? I’m not sure. Mainly because I wanted to see what all the fuzz is about. If there was something like a key moment, it was the once again annoying feed management on Facebook. Everyday you’re spammed with invitations to browser games, highscores and people loosing animals in some weird games. Over all this spam it’s hard to keep track of the things you want to know from Facebook. Do people post interesting status updates, pictures or events, has person x replied to something you posted in a wall-to-wall conversation? You know, the kind of information you use a social network for. In an attempt to filter the more from the less important posts I installed TweetDeck. It worked quite well but it seemed kind of oversized with just a Facebook account. I googled to find a way to use studivz (“the German Facebook”) but didn’t succeed. Apparently, there’s not yet a good way of doing that. Looking for a solution I somehow ended up on twitter.com browsing through some friends’ tweets. “Just try it,” I thought and got myself an account. I kept browsing and figured, this might be a good way to re-organize my feeds. So I “followed” some people and put my account into TweetDeck. After one day there’s not much I can say. I’ll have to wait and see if I end up actually using twitter and TweetDeck. Still, my first impression is absolutely positive. I now have all the information coming from Facebook filtered and organized and it looks like I even improved the way I’m accessing some of the feeds from other sources.
For those of you who are on twitter, feel free to tell me about your accounts as I’m still looking for some interesting people to follow 
. And by the way, here’s my account. You can follow the link or just get the latest tweets from the right side of this website.
