To Tweet or not To Tweet, that is the question

To Tweet or not to Tweet that is the question...

With a hundred or so to tweets flying by on Tweetdeck every a couple of minutes there is a temptation to stop and grab a few tweets for a witty reply.

This is risky business.

As a social media tool, Twitter is intended to help people connect. Most Tweeple are using Twitter to serve a larger part of their business strategy. The intent I believe is to broaden the network and round out the sales funnel. No objection here. Great way to connect with potential customers and tap the ever expanding creative and intellectual capital of the twitterverse.

I hope to be considered as a resource by my fellow Twitterzenz. I do my best to offer info, advice, and insight within the 140 character limit. But as in the real world the words lose their original meaning as they past through the twitterduction ( my word for compressing ideas into the Twitter imposed 140 characters). Unlike a JPEG compression or using any other CODEC, the original idea is decompressed by a variable CODEC unique to the Twitterzen.

The good news is the near real-time nature of replies. Sometimes you can correct or clarify in time before the misunderstanding promulgates and sometimes it! happens.

What I have learned so far is that some messages should be DMed and others left to silently move on through the metaphysical. No need to stir rile up the Twitterzenz, at least 4 now. Another time and another place perhaps, when the message may have more relevancy. But this is the challenge and opportunity Twitter provides, a fast moving and evolving cloud of people and ideas that anyone is free to join in on.

For a Twitterrific guy like myself:) whose mind is a few miles ahead of commonsense at times, knowing when to Tweet and when not to is a challenge. Yet, I persist in the process. I have chosen to be a Twitterpator ( a full fledged participant in the creation of amazing networks of people, ideas and possibility) and to take the risk. To Tweet with unbridled abandon. To give myself to this noble cause.

So in conclusion, my answer to the opening question is simple; it is better to have Tweeted and lost to never have Tweeted at all. In the words of the now dearly departed French mathematician Descartes, I affirm "I TWEET THEREFORE I AM!":) A TWEETER.

Hope we Tweet again somewhere in the vastness of Twitterville. Have a lovely day.