The Day I Went Postal on Twitter!

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This is a promise to myself and no one else:  I’M GOING TO LEARN HOW TO TWITTER! I ask myself, how hard can it be.  As many know, at least in my personal life, I am not too savvy with the Internet in general.  Of course I know how to follow a Writing Format.  Some of the Bookmarks as easy to learn to mingle and share with.  But Twitter?  I have sat there like a vegetable for two years now, avoiding it because I won’t take the time to really learn it.  As a result, my idiocy made a glorious difference.

I have a friend whose work I love.  She offers jewelry and other small designs for clothes, even the kitchen and offers Tutorials with them.  I love her work and back in the Ehow days, we shared some things.  I let my friends that are essentially in my age bracket know that we can always find each other and we do.  I get her emails for her designs and I’m always impressed.  She had a little necklace made from a simple 15 cent washer.  Just paint it, chain it and go.  Beautiful. 

So I decided when I got the last email to Tweet it.  I Tweeted before but didn’t know what I was doing and I still didn’t you could say.  You see, I tweeted about a bazillian things for her.  Hey, I didn’t have anything else to do so I just started tweeting her.  She sent me an Email on Monday saying “Jswana, you went absolutely Postal with your Tweets, you did me a lot of good”   and then she wrote back “Tell me what I can do to repay” and I’m sitting scratching my head and then something I usually do – got up for a glass of cold water.  I’m a little confused.  Of course I told her that I didn’t do it for pay back but she said “Well, let me know when you want something tweeted.  You really did good for me.”  All I can say that it truly is better to give than receive.  It made me feel really nice to hear someone express happiness for something I have done, albeit a happenstance!  Sure, I’m doing something by Writing but this lady has had this Website for some time and I hope that she is making something of it and if she’s not, it’s not because it isn’t a good one.  But I thought I was supposed to tweet like that.  And by the way, I thought I was doing the right thing when I posted my little articles to Twitter.  I thought that was all I had to do and that people would just find it.  You see?  I have to learn Twitter! Peace.