Twitter is truly amazing

Yeah I know.  “Another post about social networking”.  Keep your pants on, it’s not going to be how I kept in touch with my ex girlfriends brothers dogs hamster.

I’ve been playing around with blogging for a long time now, this one going back as far as my latest Oops where I didn’t back up my stuff before I moved and then realized that they had already cleared my old account.  I recently got into Twitter, mostly because it was fun and I KNEW that everyone out there would want to know just how I was doing, what I was up to, and what I was thinking at every freakin second – important stuff.

Recently, in the last several days, I’ve realized that Twitter has become one of my development tools.  Granted, I have 140 characters to describe my issue, but can I just say how much time I save by posting a twit like “Anyone ever do x,y,z” wait 10 minutes and get 5-10 responses ranging from “Dude DON’T” to “yeah, but you need to do a,b,c first – shoot me an email and I’ll show you what I mean”.

I’ve even had people send me scraps of code, websites with tutorials, and advice to the extent of detailed explanation of why, where, and how much on stuff I’ve been wondering about for a while.

I can’t be the first person who’s realized this.  I tweeted something summing this all up and got a response from one guy in St. Louis about how he felt like we all worked together.  You know what?  He’s RIGHT!  We’ve been using DNN (dotnetnuke) for the last 3 years for our internal portal and I’ve always had questions about certain things, but never could get a good answer.

Dude, I’ve fixed more in the last week.5 than in the last 3 years thanks to several guys I am following and thanks to apps like TweetDeck you can set up filters to look for words and phrases so you can respond to things.  I just started using it and got abotu 10 tweets today from people I’m not currently following, but who answered a question I posted.

So I guess in summation what I should say is THANK YOU TWITTER!!!  It brings resources and people within reach so much easier and FASTER!  I agree with SLH, I do feel like I am working with a lot more people than just the people who are physically in my office.  So to all of you who have responded to my tweets, thanks!