Well, I’ve been tweeting for nearly a week now, and I love it.

The thing is with Twitter, you either get it, or you don’t.

Thankfully loads of people just don’t get it! They can’t get there heads round it. And that’s great, ’cause it’s big enough as it is! As soon as more people try it, get it and follow people with it, then there are going to be some problems!

There are plenty of celebrities on Twitter, and you can easily talk to them as if they were your next door neighbour, but it won’t be long before these guys all lock down their profiles so only those that are currently following can do so.

With a few thousand or so people following you, you can just about keep up with all the @replies from your friends, but add in another few thousand ‘fans’ as well and I can imagine it becoming a bit daunting.

Stephen Fry mentioned Twitter on the Jonathan Ross show last week, and his followers have more than doubled since then. He’s approaching 100,000! (Incidently as I write Jonathan is tweeting about recording tomorrow’s show. He’s just gone into make-up.)

I started tweeting after hearing Stephen Fry mention it last week. I’d heard about it before, lots of times, but I’m a keen follower of Stephen Fry anyway, since like me he deals with Bi-Polar and is a writer too, (oh and openly gay) so when he talked about it I thought I’d just give it a go.

And yes, it does take a little bit of common sense and a few brain cells to understand what the concept is, and indeed isn’t, but once you get into it, get a couple of followers and start following others, then it really is great.

I now have 11 followers, some people I know (Tom, Chris, Clare, Lianne, Claire – all new Twitterers) and some I don’t (Hi to Susan, Vikki and John as well as Flashlight Worthy, Enterprise Cafe and of course, Richard Madeley), and they all know what I’m doing as when I tweet what I’m doing or @reply to someone I’m following, that ‘tweet’ goes to them all, and then anyone of them can tweet a reply to me too.

Admittedly, all my current update ‘tweets’ currently feed into facebook too, but I’m going to stop that soon I think, cause I only really want those who want to follow me to know what it is I’m doing. And facebook isn’t really the place for that.

Facebook is a different way of social networking. (The same, but completely different; a bit like MSN being the same, but completely different as Facebook chat.) Facebook happens in the ‘past’ whilst twitter happens in the ‘present’ if you see what I mean – and if you don’t then don’t worry, lol!

Twitter is one of those things that is easier done than said. I’m following a variety of people, as well as the BBC Business News – 140 characters at a time is great way to keep up with the economy!

Hang on, Jamie has just asked if I can give him an OINK if I’m watching ‘Jamie Saves Our Bacon’ tonight on C4….

Right, done that, lol!

Now where was I? Oh, well on the subject of Jamie, I was partaking in a ‘small’ Q&A session last night. Luckily I was already following him when he decided to go ‘incognito’.

He originally had his photo and his name and website on his profile, but then decided he was getting too many followers and changed it all. He’s doing another Q&A after the programme tonight.

Oh, and Stephen Fry has just been talking about all the press interest:

Papers are asking me to write articles on Twitter. I’ve declined. Twittermania will calm down I hope. Forgive multiple tweets, but … … I just know, although I don’t read papers, that the “arentcha just sick of Twitter?” “Who cares what Fry ate?” articles will begin … … Even though the only people talking about Twitter are the papers, the rest of us are just quietly doing it. It’ll calm down though… …and we’ll be able to get on with it without all this nonsense. Rant over. xx

Right, time to go. Hi to all my Followers.

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