Ok, I knew the facts, but I’ve just recently started  to accept the tweet status. Today I was asked if I would be interested giving a twitter-contribution to a small conference about new media on the 18th of June. It really forced me to think about the meaning of Twitter in my daily actions. I find it kind of hard to find worthy and valuable tweet information for sharing. What does it say about my day or about my own criteria to twitter? I dropped this note today about me and some twittering:

svenwillemsen 1. Worthy tweet-sharing, accelerating input links. 2. Forces to recapitulate my days, like Schopenhauer told me 3. Therefore constructive

In another words, to me twittering is or should primarily be about sharing input of possible valuable information. Information that really gives us insight in ‘backstage’ actions and which are created with the intention to inform us in general obout interesting happenings. For instance, I’m mostly interested in science from media & marketing to advertsing, art and psychology with some daily philosphical perspectives from the individuals. Fortunately we can choose who we want to follow! And therefore are responsible for our own tweet-community. Good thing.

It is interesting to get feedback coming out of an ‘unknown’ audience on a blog or twitter account. It functions as a quick mirror. But even without comments it forces you to think about the meaning of your contribution (invisible audience). What do your findings really implicate? It makes you rethink your suggestions and forces you to compress your thoughts to valuable information. Interesting! Schopenhauer once told me via his book that recapitulation is the way to get smarter every day. Didn’t take it too serious back then, but these new media tools might give us some extra pressure to do so.  Funny, the side-effect is that I’m surprisingly being confronted with time waste during the day. So it is self-reflection, not only for crowd shifting contributions, but also for the actions taken during your day. So I guess I get an even better perspective upon effective planning the actions and regulating all the social intermezzos coming from different channels. Right on. You can follow me on twitter and yes, I might go and follow you!