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Chances are, you’re either sick of hearing about Twitter or you’re tweeting.  Well I’ve been tweeting for about two months now and it’s already paid off. Twitter is easy, informative, and it’s a great way to stay in touch with my software network.  You can view my Twitter profile here. 

Twitter is on fire.  In March it had 9.3 million visitors, up 131% from 5 million visitors in February.  And do you want to know something really fascinating?  The most active folks on Twitter are in the 45-54 age group.  You can read about it on the comScore blog.

Twitter Users by Age Group

Right now I’m following 387 people and 199 are following me.  That means I see the tweets of the 387, and 199 of my digital admirers see mine.   I follow people that have similar interests and are in the same loops. You need to have something in common with your Tweeple, and for me, it’s primarily business related.  How did I find them?  Easy, just go to search.twitter.com 

A few weeks ago, someone who knows me saw one of my tweets and it prompted him to drive about 60 miles to the Silicon Valley SQL Server User Group meeting I was hosting at Microsoft in Mountain View.   He wouldn’t have learned about the meeting otherwise.  I must admit, I was impressed by the power of Twitter.

There are a few folks who I enjoy following on Twitter, like Brad McGehee. Brad was just in San Francisco in March, but he travels worldwide in his role as a SQL Server evangelist for Red Gate Software.   Thanks to Twitter, I know that Brad attended the European PASS Conference last week and is on his way home to Hawaii.  Brad tweets on the latest news in the SQL Server world, including new books coming out and news from his latest blog posts.

Other folks I follow on Twitter are Tech Bubble (that’s Nik Kalyani of DotNetNuke),TechWatching, ProWebDevBlog, TechCrunch, MSFTBizBuilder, SharePoint Buzz, Database Journal, and (why not) Lance Armstrong.

Tune in later this week when my next blog post will be an interview with San Francisco Bay Area Twitter guru Ted Prodromou on the hows and whys of using Twitter for business.   

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