Adding a badge in Twitter
For today’s Twitter task in the Twitter Challenge, I added a badge to the sidebar of this very blog. It took 5 minutes, total. To date, this is the longest amount of time I have spent with Twitter duties.
Here’s what took me so long:
- Opened up Cute FTP. Connected to site.
- Opened Sidebar.
- Created widget open and close tag.
- Cut, copied, and pasted Twitter code into sidebar, between widget tags.
- Hit F5 to refresh page to test that all was well.
- Disconnected site. Closed FTP client.
- Posted a Twit about my experience.
Done. Took from 1:02pm to 1:05pm. Would have taken a shorter amount of time if I hadn’t bothered to Twitter about it.
So far, I’ve invested about 27 minutes of actual Twitter time this month, which includes signing up, Twittering, deciding to follow other folks, and monkeying with the badge. I have spent these minutes in 5 minutes or less intervals. Bursts, really.
So what have I gotten in return for my time investment?
Numerically, not a whole lot, so far. Here are the numbers:
- I’m following 6 Twitterers.
- 4 people are following me.
- I have 42 posts total.
- 5 people visited my Maniactive blog from Twitter.
- 4 people visited this blog from Twitter.
- 0 sales. 0 phone calls. 0 comments.
I’m still committed to writing 70 Twitter posts this month, and keeping you updated. My time investment, after all, is minimal. And it’s sort of fun…and I’m learning.
There’s a simple profundity to Twitter that I find engaging. A short, 140 word post can be trivial, shallow, and thoughtless. And I’m concerned about how blithe I can be in a Twitter. In short, I can be a twit.
But perhaps Twitter is also a platform to hone writing skills — to communicate succinctly. Can it be a training ground for better writing? Perhaps.
Although my numeric success with Twitter is low, I will persist. After all, it has only been 3 days. I will try to find deeper meaning within and among each spark of a synapse and within each human connection I make. I will strive to understand whether Twittering is a device for interruption — or an aid to providing Zen-like focus on the here-and-now.
Thoughtful insights on the nature of Twitter and Twittering will be appreciated, much.
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[…] The Natuba Badge. And it only took a few moments to create the Natuba badge you see above, too. Like the Twitter Badge, the Natuba Badge constantly updates with the freshest content. There’s only one Natuba badge option at the moment, but I can easily envision the clever social media community constructing more. […]
I am so ooooo lost …
What are you doing?
Where is the film morphing piece you said you added to Twitter? What the heck is twitter?
The dynosaur from the nineties…..;-)