I get a tickle out of Twitter

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blogging, postaday2013, Posting, publicize, social media, Twitter, writing

As I said, I get a tickle out of Twitter. I don’t really understand Twitter or why it is so popular and that is precisely why it tickles me whenever Twitter alerts me that I have a new follower. Not understanding a social media platform and still getting followers is something that strikes me as funny. Here I am posting away, minding my own business and some nice person looking through the Twittersphere picks up on my Tweet, I guess, and must say “this tweet looks interesting, I think that I will follow this person”. The whole thing tickles me. I get alerts from Twitter when they think that there is a person who I might be interested in following and as of now I am following 30 people. They are involved in progressive journalism, food politics, environmental activism and my alma mater New York University. I may be a follower of certain Twitter people but I don’t look at their tweets all day long, that is the part that I don’t understand. Do all these Twitter people spend their time reading tweets all day long? Either way, all this is interesting and I am learning which I do like to do. You may be wondering how I got into Twitter if I don’t get it, the way I got into Twitter is through some sage advice.

My dear friend Tilly Bud TheLaughingHousewife recently advised me to register with Twitter and to publicize both my blogs through Twitter. She has wonderful tips and advice for amateur bloggers so I pay attention. Registering on Twitter is so easy; just as easy as registering onto WordPress so boom, I entered the Twittersphere. This is probably around two months ago and so far I have five followers; two of them count but not really, because one is my hubby and the other is my other friend Jackie at Getreadingnow.org so they follow me because they know me. The other three, got me all excited, because these three Twitter people randomly found me through something I wrote; one of them is a Web Designer, the other is the alumni group at N.Y.U and the other is an activist film production company. It makes me happy to think that more people out there are reading my thoughts and opinions and are interested enough to want to read more, very exciting.

The why of it all

Why do you write? What keeps you motivated?

I have been writing for two solid years now and I can't imagine going through a day without writing, my day wouldn't be complete without it. Writing has become my therapy and my outlet. What I find quite interesting is that prior to December 31st 2010, I had never kept a journal or a diary. I wrote only when required to by my school assignments. I knew that I was considered by my professors a very capable thesis writer but I never imagined that I would ever come to love writing simply for the sake of writing and expressing myself. Writing has become a gift to myself, it relaxes me, rids me of my anxieties and de-stresses me just by virtue of filling my computer screen with words and thoughts. Moreover my writing has opened up a whole new world that I didn't know was out there. I have had the ultimate good fortune in making new friends that I treasure, that I would have never met but with writing through the platform of WordPress. My motivation lies in the many benefits that writing affords me and through the relationships that I have developed. I want to stay engaged with myself and the world. That is what writing means to me.