Last week I was persuaded to start Tweeting because “apparently” Twitter is where it’s at for future journalists.

So one week in and let me tell you what I think.

Well, I never thought I’d say this but I actually prefer it to Facebook and that’s because it’s like Facebook but a lot faster.

Let me explain…

I don’t know about everybody else but I just used Facebook for the status updates. I checked the updates and then I didn’t know what to do, so just logged off.

But with Twitter the updates (or tweets) are faster and there are more of them, so I can just leave Twitter on in the background and wait for the tweets to roll in.

But I hear you ask: “what’s the point of that?”

Well, you can follow anyone or any subject and get up-to-the-minute news from all around the world and for journalists this means that it is a vital resource.

Take me for example, I used to scour the web or Google news to find news about office space, commerce and gadgets, which usually took over 30 minutes a day. But now I’ve got twitter I can subscribe (or follow) office news and receive it instantly without doing anything.

Twitter also allows me to do a shout-out which essentially gives me my own 11 year old boy shouting “read all about…”. Whenever I write a blog or an article I can use Twitter to self-advertise and raise the web presence of my writing.

And by following key users or key topics I can get noticed and develop a following. Last night alone I gained 10 followers and I’m pretty sure that’s all down to who I follow myself.

Now if I link to one of my articles and just one person follows the link, then isn’t Twitter worth it?

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