I just realised I've been on Twitter for a whole year now! I signed up at the end of March 2009 after reading a blog post of Dave Gorman's wherein he explained the one-way connection system of Twitter, differentiating it from things like Facebook and MySpace where if you request to become 'friends' with someone, they either have to accept it and in turn become your friend, or reject it.
A year on and my Twitter stats are now thus:
- 1344 tweets
- 197 followers
- following 178
I've really enjoyed being on Twitter, especially recently. It works much better when you have more followers; it's good if you personally know some of your followers but it's also good to have some followers you don't know as this can develop friendships.
The great thing about Twitter is when you start to have enough followers to be able to post a tweet asking something and know you'll get a few replies immediately. Also, when you start tweeting more regularly (in the beginning you treat it almost like a Facebook status, which it's not) and become more apathetic about what should constitute a tweetworthy string, you start to enjoy it more.
Here's to another great year of Twitter. I wonder where my numbers will be at by then...
