Lane,
Definitely… it’s not until you start using it do you find its real power. To try to give an example of Twitter to people have never heard of Twitter I go “Imagine sending out a message to 10,000 people then having 10 of those people instantly forward that message onto another 5,000 people.” Only then can they see the real power of it. A lot of people think Twitter is for telling other people what you had for breakfast. In fact on the radio I heard a little parody saying that we should call people who use Twitter “F**kwitters”. I think it’s only once you start using it, do you really understand the power of it.

Callum,
That is exactly what I am using JCD for, documenting & sharing my progress as a designer while sharing with others what I have learned. People have come so accustomed to blogs offering “top 10 this”, “top 10 that” that they don’t realise that there are people behind blogs. Also see my comment to Lane above.

I wish I had my face in the local newspaper, it’d probably me quite a bit of exposure and from that hopefully some decent projects!

I also love how ellen pokes fun with the twitter name on her show.

Doubt I will ever be on Time magazine but I never cross anything off the list completely. Re doing an interview for newspaper, why don’t you approach them? Apparently this was the first article of Twitter they had done for my paper so it could be for yours too!

Mandy, Hunz,

It really is a great benefit once you get your head around it, have you tried to give it ago yet?

Callum,

It was a big surprise indeed but I don’t think you could call it “famous”.

Valerie,

I don’t really tell people what I am doing either. I tend to share great resources and links most of the time.

J,
Thanks for the honest feedback however this is a personal blog and not purely a design focused blog much a like the many other design blogs out there. I believe I have a steady balance with the amount of resourceful articles I have posted and the amount of “toot toot” posts. And with that said, you still can pick and choose what articles you read so I don’t see the problem with it… without trying to sound rude, may I ask what you are giving back to the community?

Valentine’s Gift,

Hehe, well I guess TV is the next stepping stone. I’ve been in a few magazines and in fact am in this months Layer’s magazine which I should be posting about next week.

Nikki,

It was quite a shock but it did bring a smile to my face especially for my parents too… I got onto the front page of the newspaper for being a Twit.

But I started an only-design twitter account where I receive good links, good design news and where I tweet back links to the design community. I think it’s great to get in touch with many other graphic / web designers and to get to know the latest news.

p.s: i’m curious about twitter now.. ^^, have a nice day…

I caught this on Sunday when I was back home on the weekend picked up the paper picture and was like… that face looks familar.

Props to the social network king of newcastle

Yeah the front page was a good surprise indeed. Such a Twit!

Yana,

One of the main reasons I follow people back is so that I am able to direct message them and so they can direct message me too. I also find it polite but some disagree. I suppose it comes down to personal choice.