I don’t understand Twitter

15 Dec 2009
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Recently I’ve found myself having to explain, much in the manner of instructing a blind child how to play tennis, what Twitter is, how to use it and why it’s such a fantastically useful tool for online brands. Introducing new users to the service, whether they be clients, coworkers or friends has proved to be quite a challenge. “I don’t get it! I’m just supposed to talk about what I’m doing? Like washing the pots, what I had for breakfast, when I go for a poo?” A brief history For those of you, which is quite probably most of you, reading the post that use Twitter on a regular basis, this may have been your initial attitude as well. It certainly was mine 2 and a half years ago when I first toyed with the service. Back then I struggled to see it’s value. It wasn’t clear who I was supposed to follow, what I was expected to write and…

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The new site

10 Dec 2009
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Hey folks. A dash of the past and the road ahead My tardyness is beginning to precede me and I’m tired of apologising for it. Aside from complaining about how busy I am and continuing to craft weak excuses as to why the site’s upkeep has taken a nosedive over the past 6-8 months, backed up by tedious promises of upcoming content; I’ll instead bestow you with a little update of where Redswish will be heading in the future and hopefully inspire you to stick with me and stay, if only mildly, interested. The site started off as an experiement nearly 2 years ago, a blind date with blogging. I discovered that I enjoyed it and apparantly so did those taking the time to read my babble; so I stuck at it and tried to figure a solid direction for the website. However, as Redswish is almost exclusively the ramblings of a sole young fluttering designery type, me, a solid…

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