Do you Twitter?

Before you say another word... I am with you; I am confused by all the hype surrounding Twitter. For those not in the know, Twitter is another one of those ubiquitous social networking sites. I swear they must be paying people to use it, or at least, say they use it.

As with many of these experiments in technology, I wonder to myself how a garden center client would best use something like Twitter or Facebook.

Without breaking a sweat I have 20 'followers', many just subscribed to the thread, or tweet, because, like me they were curious. So I am conducting a little socio-economic experiment here. I promise to post a 'tweet' at least 5 times a week with something more meaningful than what I ate that day. My goal is to see how many followers I can amass by the end of July. Of course you can tweet me with your guess.

In order to make it worthwhile and not just another gimmick I will need to produce some pretty meaningful content. I promise. The good news is that I won't need to do it all on my on. That is one of the good things about Twitter. For example, if you wanted to take a peak at one of the more interesting ways to 'tweet' then check out the NBC LA affiliate at NewsRaw. My youngest daughter is interning there this summer and works at posting lead ins. For the news industry it makes a lot of sense. What is more immediate that hooks leading into a web video.

Back to all things green. The reality is that there are many times that I hatch one idea or another. Some are good, some, well... not so much. I figure I drive my staff crazy, why not you? So here goes - a simultaneous - ok, within a day or so - posting the same general information on our website, e-mail, blog, and twitter.

More to come... I pinky-swear.