{"id":288,"date":"2008-12-28T21:30:46","date_gmt":"2008-12-29T04:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heathervale.com\/blog\/?p=288"},"modified":"2023-04-17T16:12:49","modified_gmt":"2023-04-18T00:12:49","slug":"im-twitter-pated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/heathervale.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/28\/im-twitter-pated\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m Twitter-Pated"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=https:\/\/heathervale.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/28\/im-twitter-pated\/&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=1&amp;width=450&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light&amp;font=\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height:25px\"><\/iframe><iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fheathervale.com%2Fblog%2F2008%2F12%2F28%2Fim-twitter-pated%2F&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=true&amp;width=450&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light&amp;height=80\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height:80px;\" allowTransparency=\"true\"><\/iframe><p>There was a song in an old Disney movie that we learned in Grade 3:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Everything is Twitter-pated in the spring,<br \/>\nSkunks smell sweet, rabbits sing.<br \/>\nDaffodils go daffy when the bluebells ring,<br \/>\nCuz everyone&#8217;s in love!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure if that&#8217;s how Twitter got its name, but I know it IS easy to get infatuated with the thing&#8230; I joined up within seconds had a ton of people following me.\u00a0 I watched it go from 20 to 24 to 42 to&#8230; well, you can find out how many it is now by checking out my profile.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, that&#8217;s right&#8230; I finally signed up for Twitter.\u00a0 It&#8217;s an experiment to see what its usefulness really is&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>So far I can see that the back link to this blog is great for SEO considerations, and in turn the back link from this blog to <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/HeatherVale\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">my Twitter page<\/a> will help get traffic there.<\/p>\n<p>And it&#8217;s pretty cool that I connected with several people that I haven&#8217;t talked to in awhile, and did so within the first few minutes of creating my profile&#8230; before my picture was even uploaded.<\/p>\n<p>And it&#8217;s fun to read the little messages that people put up, and to answer them back.\u00a0 Then again, I can see how that could become a huge time waster (like I need something to waste my time when it&#8217;s at a premium right now&#8230; my computer time is handled in chunks in between feeding, changing and playing with Konan, when he&#8217;s sleeping and I should be too!)<\/p>\n<p>Of course, if those messages are used for business purposes, it could get valuable back links AND drive real human traffic to whatever website you want to &#8220;Twitter&#8221; about.<\/p>\n<p>And if they&#8217;re for personal reasons, it&#8217;s a lot better than chat because you can communicate with just one or two messages to several people in only a few minutes, rather than getting caught up in an hour-long conversation with one.<\/p>\n<p>Still, I&#8217;ll wait before I recommend it to Barry, because he doesn&#8217;t see the point, and I need to be able to give a definitive endorsement first.<\/p>\n<p>But do connect with me in the meantime at <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/HeatherVale\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter.com\/HeatherVale<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Keep Unwrapping Your Online Success!<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Heather Vale Goss\" src=\"http:\/\/heathervale.com\/images\/sigHVG_2.1_blue.gif\" alt=\"Heather Vale Goss\" width=\"205\" height=\"35\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was a song in an old Disney movie that we learned in Grade 3: Everything is Twitter-pated in the spring, Skunks smell sweet, rabbits sing. 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