When I followed a link to When Did You Join Twitter? (tweeted by @moldor) the other day, I discovered that I’d been on Twitter for exactly 3 years to the day! What’s more, I had posted almost exactly 40,000 tweets! That’s an average of 36.46 tweets a day, for those playing along at home. Wow, time flies when you’re having fun I guess!
Being on Twitter for the last 3 years has indeed been a lot of fun, and contrary to popular belief, very productive. I’ve been able to meet a lot of great people, both online and off, and my career has moved solidly and positively into the realm of social media itself.
I’d like to take a moment to thank everybody who follows my daily thoughts (36.46 of them apparently), and especially those who communicate with me on a regular basis via Twitter. You’re the ones who make it into a valuable community for me. There are too many to list here, you know who you are :)
Hey, maybe I should also take a moment to thank the (now let’s face it, pretty famous) guys who started Twitter, @jack, @ev and @biz. Congratulations are also in order, as the 22nd of March appears to be Twitter’s 4th Birthday, which means I was almost a full year behind the times when I began. I started using Twitter about the time of South by Southwest (SXSW) 2007. That’s when it really started to take off of course.
According to @jack, the tweet below is one of the very early tweets, and this is the very first human-written tweet.
If you’re interested in that, you might also be interested in this original “twttr sketch”. Ha, it all started with an idea put down on a piece of people with a pen. Funny that.
So how long have you been on Twitter for? Just started, or were you one of the early adopters who stuck with it through its rise to global domination and rise(?) to the status of tv talk show material? Do you find it just a useful as I do, or is it just a distraction for you?
