According to @sing_twop_1000 who informed me this afternoon, I’ve been using Twitter now for three years. That’s a good thing… right?!
Trawling through the archives here, the first time I mentioned Twitter was this post published in June 2007 about another international move and my mum. As was my style at the time I talked about many different things in one post, ironically I hadn’t done that for ages until recently!
The screenshot above was the first I took of a Twitter client, from this post in October 2007 when I was talking about my mum’s ICU scare and some random crappy photos from around Singapore with my then new Nokia e61i phone thingy. I used Twitteriffic right up until they started putting ads into the software and charging for it.
ASIDE: Oh and Michael Atkinson, my mum was having chemotherapy NOT playing computer games. Go step on a pine cone.
Twitter has become such a critical part of my life, I get nearly all my news through it and for an awkward, introverted person like me it’s been a great way to meet people and make friends. I may be programming late at night by myself in the dark, but I have all these friendly people asking how I’m going just a click away. People say they don’t get Twitter, that it’s stupid and it drives them crazy, for me it may have prevented me from going crazy.
Cheers Twitter, I’ll have a coffee for both of us :).
I love Twitter. I’ve met a lot of wonderful people through it, had career opportunities, and even had people help me out when I’ve been stuck.
My three year anniversary will be in May, so you got in before me.
Unfortunately, it hasn’t helped with my Depression, but not because it’s incapable of doing so—but because I’m not free to talk about the problem because it involves mutual followers.
I’ve been able to talk in vague terms about things, and whinge—not very productive, and not very good for people being able to offer advice. I know I’ve lost followers I thought were friends over venting feelings via the platform.
But I’ve met people who I can talk to offline/on other platforms about things, and people who have been very supportive, so that’s good too.