In July of 2008, my good friend Tina told me about this new social networking website. Basically it was a status-updating tool where you update what you are doing. My initial reactions were, “Man, that is nothing but the Facebook status thing.” I joined and was not interested upon first glance. At that time, I was only following a few people, Tina, Charles Hamilton, Stephen Colbert and Darth Vader. I got very frustrated with it because I allowed them to come to my phone and was bombarded by updates by my busybody friend, Tina. SO I turned it off and was turned off by it.

Fast-forward, I meet Bobby Creekwater‘s publicist and now my good friend, Tai. We exchange Twitter profiles and instantly, Twitter made sense to me. I got to meet and talk to SOO many people within the music industry that I began to wonder what my life was like before Twitter. Then, Tai made the mistake of introducing me to TweetDeck and things have NEVER been the same.

Twitter has swept our neighborhoods, schools, nation and universe, one tweet at a time. From Barack Obama and CNN to Ashton Kutcher (who is number one at the current time) to Oprah. There have been Twitter beef, scandels to love connections on Twitter.

Once I began to get more and more versed in Twitter, I instantly began promoting it. I told friends that they needed to join and network. Every design client I would get, I’d introduce them to Twitter. I even got caught expressing my anger at how a client was changing the scope of a project and trying to cancel (she did cancel.)

Bad or good, it is here to stay. Twitter has etched it’s way into society. Who would of thought that letting my friends know tidbits like I hate women with ugly shows would be a goldmind!!!

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