I’ve started to build an Atlantic Canada twitter list of those in technology/marketing/ social media and related fields on the right sidebar. If you want to be added to the list, you can follow me on twitter or you can contact me. On the flip side, if you want your twitter removed from the twitter list, let me know and I’ll remove it.

If you’re new to what twitter is, from wikipedia;

Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that allows users to send “updates” (text-based posts, up to 140 characters long) to the Twitter website, via short message service, instant messaging, email, or an application such as Twitterrific. Twitter was founded in March 2006 by San Francisco start-up company Obvious Corp.

Caroline Middlebrook has a very comprehensive Big Juicy Twitter Guide. 

 My reasons for using Twitter:

1. it’s easy to use and doesn’t take much time
2. it helps build relationships with others
3. you’re usually the first to know what is happening
4. if you can’t attend an event, you can often follow a twitter on the event, ie. http://twitter.com/forrester
5. it’s fairly viral with followers and who you’re following, lots of marketing opportunities
6. it’s indexed by google, useful for seo

Most of all, I really enjoy the diversity of people out there and getting the big picture in a micro way of the world outside of mine.