Tweet-Log: All-time favorite tweets

People say great things on Twitter.  It’s the short format… It forces you to really think about the efficacy of 140 characters.  So as I said before, I’m starting a tweet-log of some of my favorite tweets, by myself and by others.  Below is one of my all-time favorite tweet exchanges from my earlier days on Twitter. If it’s ever happened to you then you know how exciting a reply from a Twitter-lebrity is.

A brief exchange with anti-PR celeb Amanda Chapel on March 6^th:

 
 BobbyPens RT @TDefren “This Blog Post is Not About Skittles” http://pr-squared.com/?p=732. Gotta say this Skittles gimmick does not excite me.

amandachapel@BobbyPens “Gotta say this Skittles gimmick does not excite me.” Excuse me, but for most social media vagrants, Skittles is high art.

BobbyPens@amandachapel Those vagrants need to be put in their place on this one… Skittles are fruit-flavored candy for cryin out loud!

 
I still remain unimpressed by Skittles, for the record. You need to have a Website. I don’t care how Web 1.0 that sounds!

Micro-Blogging, Live-Tweeting and Tweet-Logging

It’s been a while since I’ve written.  I’ve just completed a challenging week of final exams and if everything goes according to plan, I will be a graduate of Boston University’s College of Communication in 8 long days…

While I was taking a break from blogging, I’ve been working on some new ideas for Bobby Pens.  It took me a few weeks after joining in February for a class assignment, but I am now completely and totally addicted to Twitter. I had just a basic personal account when I first joined, but about a month in, I suddenly “got it” and www.twitter.com/BobbyPens became the micro-blog within the Bobby Pens blog.  You can and should use your Twitter account as an extension of your blog. I’ve found it doubles the interactivity.

• A micro-blog is the same idea as a regular blog but it consists of much shorter written, audio, or visual entries (there are also macro-blogs, discussed on Bobby Pens as well).  The recommended length of a blog post is 250-500 words.  A micro-blog can be one sentence, 140 characters, a three-photo photo essay, a ten second video clip, a text message, or a quick status update on a larger social networking site, for example.
• See: Twitter, Tumblr, Flickr, Facebook, Jaiku, Plurk for examples of micro-blogging platforms.

There are some great Tumblr “Tumblelogs” out there (http://thedw.us/ and http://chrisabigail.tumblr.com/), but Twitter is my micro-blogging drug of choice.  It forces me to confront my problems with brevity (you are limited to 140 characters per “tweet”).  It also reminds me how profound writers can be when they use their words (and multimedia) judiciously.

So I’ve decided to start tweet-logging, yet another term that I thought I’d invented, but to which someone already beat me. Life goes on… I suppose.

• Tweet-logging is exactly what it sounds like. It’s a log of your tweets. 
• You don’t have to do it on your own.  There is software that automatically updates your regular blog with your tweets for the day (for example, LoudTwitter).
• I will be manually tweet-logging, to showcase my favorite tweets on Bobby Pens and elsewhere. You can see a full feed of my tweets on the left-and side of this blog, or of course by visiting my Twitter page.

Unfortunately, there are no formal tweet-logs that I could find to share with you… Tweet-logs pop up in various forms on plenty of blogs, but always part of a larger blog, like this one.  But this is the internet. Give it some time!