I have resisted for months joining Twitter, the mini messaging website that works sort of like blogging on much smaller scale.  Posts or messages or “Tweats” as the Twitter users call them are limited to 140 characters.   This is what I mean by small.  You are limited to these little bursts of thought supposedly to answer the question “what are you doing right now”?

Last night for example I shared with the world and the folks who have decided to “follow me” (another feature of Twitter, keeping you up to date with the people in the world you choose to stay up to date with) that I was throwing away Christmas dinner leftover green bean casserole.  I sent this wonderful update from my cell phone as a text message and it appeared instantly to my Twitter page and to my “followers” and to anywhere else I wanted to put a twitter html code!  Kind of neat in it’s simplicity, which is why I finallydecided to try it.  My thinking is one simple text is easier than updating my website and my blog as separate events!

Since starting with Twitter a few days ago, I’ve already made contact with many new listeners I didn’t know before, and that is a good thing.  I have also used the service to explain my daily on air topics, off air comments during my live show, and I even sent out a Tweat giving the answer to an on air trivia question 20 minutes before I even asked the question!  Yes, a fellow Twitter user won the prize!  I cheated, sort of, in the name of FUN…. and connectivity.

I encourage you WGMD listeners to try Twitter, it’s free, and I’ve been having a lot of fun with it.  It’ll be another way we can interact and share during our talks about local issues.

Learn more and follow me on Twitter at http://twitter.com/dangaffney

-Dan Gaffney

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