over the past couple of weeks more of my friends have either been joining twitter or asking me about it. I’ve been tweeting for a little over 2years. My first tweet occured 11:04 AM Mar 27th, 2007.

A little background for those of you who don’t understand the point of twitter. It’s a means to communicate with people and a means to obtain information. If you check facebook every hour on the hour, then you’ll like twitter; however if you only check it once a week or month, then skip it.

I categorize the people I follow in 5  main groups:

1. Friends: these are my friends I use twitter to keep in touch with them and have conversations that don’t rrquire immediate feedback.

2. News: I follow a number of blogs/bloggers and general news sites who tweet when they update, add a new post, or just tweet out info. I find this easier than reading RSS.

http://twitter.com/Foodimentary

http://twitter.com/gigaom

http://twitter.com/ruralbroadband

http://twitter.com/sepiamutiny

3. Corporate Help: when I need tech support or a have a question about my bill, I look for a twitter account first. this was pioneered by comcast but has expanded to a number of companies who not only assist customers but have also been known to give out discount codes.

http://twitter.com/Starbucks

http://twitter.com/ComcastCares

4. Celebrities: now there is a cavet to this, not all the celebrities are real. if i do find a real one and they continue to provide information, updates on projects, promote things i care about then i follow them. however if they start tweeting crap, i unfollow as in the case of @aplusk, he may have a million but he tweets garbage.

http://twitter.com/Jon_Favreau

http://twitter.com/ThatKevinSmith

http://twitter.com/donttrythis

http://twitter.com/azizansari

5. fake celebrity/character accounts that make me laugh.

http://twitter.com/drtobiasfunke

http://twitter.com/CobraCommander

Now the main thing when dealing with twitter is this don’t add to the noise just add to the quality. By all means bitch and FML, and give random updates as to what you’re doing. But don’t forget to add content.