I was not an early adopter of Twitter. The idea of micro-blogging about how my day is going and what I am doing this very second always seemed like a huge waste of time. I think the basic flaw with the service is in the way that they phrase the initial question to new users… “What are you doing right now?” This incessive question can be endless and there are certainly people that answer it with what type of sandwich they are having for lunch or that they are feeling ________ (verb) right now.
I have however found Twitter to be a useful tool for sharing found news and items with others. And while there are many twitter clients out there from a slew of Adobe Air clients (my current favorite is Spaz) to mobile applications on iPhones, Blackberries and GPhones. There exists a better way to share the latest news with friends.
Twitter Feed is a small up-start service that runs off donations and allows you to take any RSS feed and mash the data into your Twitter feed. I use the Google Reader service and publicly publish my stared items. Then as I read through all of the daily news in Reader I can just click on the star icon and the article is automatically published to my followers network.
Similarly I have setup other RSS feeds to plug into my Twitter stream including: YouTube favorites, Digg posts, and Brightkite.
Twitter can also be helpful in updating your Facebook status. By installing the Twitter application on Facebook my profile status can stay in sync with my Twitter feed.
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