In Jodie's Brain

I have a general bone to pick with anyone who wants to tell you how you “should” be using Twitter. The only rules I think everyone should follow fall under basic civility, decorum and kindness (oh, and no spam-ness). Other than that…

Who.
Freakin’
Cares.

That being said, if with Twitter (as with Facebook, or blogging or site-building or… hammering a nail) you want to accomplish something specific – you have a certain goal in mind, then by all means, model, copy and emulate those who have gone before you. Ask for guidance. Read books.

Imagine you’re using a spoon. Doesn’t matter how you use that spoon. It’s your spoon. You can use it to pry thumbtacks out of the corkboard. You can use it to scrape the peel off of ginger. Use it to spread filler into old picture nail holes. It would be very rude to have a staunch soup-eater come up to you, unannounced, telling you that you’re using your spoon wrong.

If you WANT to eat soup, great… learn all you can about how to hold that spoon and move it. However, it was still rude of the soup-eater to approach you and say “you’re doing it wrong.”

Go ahead – scoff at the rules! Use your spoon to fling broccoli across the room! Dig to China! Eat Nutella out of the jar! Hang the damn thing off your nose! When you’re ready to eat soup, look for the people who say “Oh! Awesome! Let me know how I can help – and, what kind of soup do you like?” and learn from them.

I don’t care what you do with the spoon…

If you’re doing something that interests me (like, say, eating Nutella) I will follow you. If not…

…someone else will come along and be in awe of your spoon bending.

Trust me.

:D