Well my Twitter experiment is becoming quite addictive.   I bit the bullet, logged on and started following people and tweeting and now have 6 followers!  Of course in Twitter terms 6 followers is derisory…but you have to start somewhere.  I’m following 7 people, mostly from small business circles and the virtual assistant industry.  And I’m actually finding it pretty interesting. 

I’ve always liked the Ian Hart quote “There’s a statistical theory that if you gave a million monkeys typewriters and set them to work, they’d eventually come up with the complete works of Shakespeare. Thanks to the Internet, we now know this isn’t true.” There is a huge amount of dross out there, but what has really surprised me on Twitter is how much really interesting and informative free content there is out there too.  I started off  reading the free guide to Twitter for Business from Duct Tape Marketing which I mentioned in my last post.  It was a nice concise read and gave me the confidence to give Twitter a go.  Then I also came upon this other blog post on Twitter which links to some great free e-books for small business owners.  

At the moment Twitter is very US focused but I wonder if more UK based businesses will start to get on board with it in 2009.