Many of you reading this have been using twitter, the micro-blogging/social networking service, for quite a while, while some of you have only started recently but might still not be finding any value in the people you follow.
This post will outline a few ways in which you are able to find twitter users worth following that should add value to your twitter experience.
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There’s a quiet war raging in the world of social networking. While millions of users are happily super poking, thumbing up and tweeting each other, the rules of the game are being rewritten as sites like Facebook and Twitter vie to define the next revolution.

On the 24th of June the battleship Facebook launched a long awaited missile at its smaller, nimbler foe, the SS Twitter. This missile was the news that Facebook are making a large chunk of content posted to their site - including status messages, photos and videos – accessible to the general public.
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Sam Wilson is panicking…. how can we still be tweeting now that everyone else is?

When you work online, there’s an unspoken rule… you have to be plugged in.

Obviously.

I mean, we describe ourselves as “social media gurus” and “online experts” and get those less plugged in to pay us for our ability to use SEO and UGC and other hot TLAs casually in conversation, without mixing the letters around. Clearly, it’s not just hip to be ahead… it’s required.
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Keeping up with internet trends can be trying. First MySpace, then Facebook and now this Twitter thing is all the rage. So they’re just fads that will fizzle out in time, right? Wrong.

Remember that people thought the telephone was a fad, and most doctors in the 19th century scoffed at the idea that this gadget could help them in their practice.

So what is Twitter about? It’s like a combination of a global chat room with a blogging system and personal broadcasting tool. It allows anyone to publish short updates known “tweets” in which they tell the world what they’re doing or thinking at that moment.

But what makes Twitter work is the concept of “following”. You choose which people to follow and you see only their updates. If they become boring or annoying you simply “unfollow” them.

So users only follow people that they trust or respect or at the very least find interesting. And since these people often “follow” them back, clusters of like-minded people develop.

And it’s from these clusters that the true power of Twitter comes. You will hear industry news on Twitter hours or even days before it goes public – providing you follow the right people.
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