Thoughts on Twitter and the way it impacts our lives

It is not an understatement to stay that we live in strange and exciting times. We live in a time when more change has occurred in the past two decades than had occurred in centuries. Not only have the past two decades seen the collapse of tyrannical regimes, and the spread of freedom (however tense) globally, but these decades have also seen a ballooning of technology, both in the influence that technology has over our day to day lives (take the cell phone, the internet, the IPod and the emergence of cloud computing) as well as the ways that we communicate. With the emergence of social media and interactive web 2.0 sites, the old ways of communication are quickly becoming antiquated. Today we expect, nay we demand instant communication with everyone around us, and as this technology develops we are likely to see huge changes in the way we interact with our friends; family; businesses; and even our doctors.
One of the leading companies in this new communication revolution is Twitter. Twitter has seemingly taken us to the next plateau in communication and in our ability to network with one another. Not only does Twitter take mundane day to day conversation and make it grander, but it also gives us an unprecedented ability to network with like minded individuals and also to communicate directly with companies and business with whom we interact, or with whom we wish to interact.
Given such a vast mandate it is understandable how Twitter might be misused by many. As someone who has been using Twitter for almost a year to communicate with friends and customers (you can tweet me at @wecomparebooks
) I must say that, it is a learning curve and I have made many mistakes along the way, and I am still learning. Here are a few recently published books that have helped me navigate Twitter better: Twitter for Business: Twitter for Friends: The Little Twitter Book You Should Not Tweet Without, Twitter Revolution: How Social Media and Mobile Marketing is Changing the Way We Do Business & Market Online and Twitter Tips, Tricks, and Tweets