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		<title>Revisting Twitter</title>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p class="MsoNormal"><span>About a year ago I signed up for a <a href="http://twitter.com/courtstal">twitter account</a>.<span> </span>My initial visit to twitter was just to check out the site to see how it works.<span> </span>After about 10 minutes I was bored with it and went back to <a href="http://www.facebook.com/">facebook</a> and updated my status there instead.<span> </span>About 2 weeks ago I ventured back to <a href="http://twitter.com/">twitter.com</a>, updated my status, and found a few people to follow.<span> </span>I’ve kept up with their updates for a few days now, and think there is something twitter brings to the table other social site don’t.<span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>I think twitter is something you’re rewarded for finding a few interesting people to follow, and sticking with them.<span> </span>If they start to bore you drop them and find someone else more interesting.<span> </span>Right now I’m following 19 people, a few Houston folks, like <a href="http://twitter.com/richardjustice">Richard Justice</a> of the <a href="http://www.chron.com/">Houston Chronicle</a>, and <a href="http://twitter.com/alysonfooter">Alyson Footer</a> of the Astros.<span> </span>I also decided to follow a few Dallas area people as well, Mark Cuban, and a few of <a href="http://www.theticket.com/">The Ticket</a> show hosts. I added a few Soccer twitter pages like US Soccer, and the </span><a href="http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/index.html" target="_blank">FIFA world cup 2010</a><span> page.<span> </span>Then there are a few celebs that I’m giving a shot, mostly b/c I think they pretty interesting people: <a href="http://twitter.com/lancearmstrong">Lance Armstrong</a>, <a href="http://twitter.com/THE_REAL_SHAQ">The REAL Shaq</a>, and <a href="http://twitter.com/dannymasterson">Danny Masterson</a>. <span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>So, we will see how it goes, and if I have enough time to keep up.<span> </span>I really think following Lance Armstrong during the <a href="http://www.letour.fr/us/homepage_horscourseTDF.html">tour de France</a>, and getting the inside scoop on the Astros as stories develop from Alyson Footer make twitter a very interesting resource for real-time updates.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Another thing I like about twitter I like is the ability to search tweets in real time and find stories and comments on stories in a constantly evolving environment.<span> </span>Versus a Google search that is formulated of hours, days, months, and years of their <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_crawler">web crawlers</a>, sometime known as <a href="http://computer.howstuffworks.com/search-engine1.htm">spiders</a>, locating xml site data, metatags, and other criteria to build their search results.<span> </span>This means your search results usually going to lead you to real-time articles, from twitter posts created and updated in minutes and seconds.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Lastly, twitter has a nice little <a href="http://seanys.com/2007/10/12/twitter-wordpress-widget/">widget</a> with wordpress that I can use to update my Facebook status and my site at the same time.<span> </span>So now you can check my twitter status here on <a href="http://makin-it-rain.com/">makin-it-rain.com</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>As I find more interesting Twitter’ers worthy of following I’ll let you know.<span> </span>If you have any favorites please comment and let me know.<span> </span>And if you’re on Twitter <a href="http://twitter.com/courtstal">look me up</a> and give me a follow I can be somewhat interesting on occasion.</span></p>
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