by AG
Much to the despise of some of my friends, I’ve become an avid user and fan of Twitter. Twitter is what some call the “best part of facebook” without all the clutter. Whether that is true or not, I can’t say, but I can say that Twitter has been an easy & convenient way to keep track of what people are doing, reading, and talking about.
But I have found Twitter to be useful for more than just keeping up with people, but for other tasks as well. Here’s a few examples:
@TrackThis – Need to track a FEDEX or UPS, @TrackThis will send you a direct message every time the package moves.
@Woot – I’ve been tracking the daily deals on Woot.com for nearly two years. Having the daily deal sent to me via Twitter saves me a few clicks every morning. There are many websites like Woot, who have Twitter accounts to send website updates via Twitter, such as @CNN, @ESPN, among others.
And like all great web services, Twitter has a great programming interface which has allowed me to most recently combine our Polymon Monitoring System with @joepruitt’s PoshTweet PowerShell script to enable tracking our server’s online status with Twitter. I’m still working out some kinks, but it’s been cool to find was to use Twitter for this. I’m sure more useful uses for Twitter, and tools like it, but I thought I’d share some of the ways I have been using it with my blog readers.
If I have any blog readers using Twitter, that I haven’t began to follow, give me a shout @andyjgarrett
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