It's Spring now. So here is my Twitter Post

Forgive me, Father. It's been more than a year since my last confession, oops, wrong forum.

It's been more than a year since my last original tweet. By social media standards, my profile is in the nether graveyard overgrown with mossy weed and an illegible tombstone.

I corrected that today, spruced up my profile and started to engage in conversation (Twitter recommends an 80/20 rule). I learned that I have
been on Twitter since October of 2008...the same month we met SNL Weekend Update Financial Expert Oscar Rogers. In the early days the goal was to get a huge follower count. The same is true today in terms of leveraging your followers for financial gain though you could argue quality should beat out quantity.

Over the last year, some things have changed: advertising has become more of a prominent thing, publishers have gotten their acts together with regularly branded updates, hashtags are a little more cohesive.

Some things have remained exactly the same: food updates, puns, people following people with the exact same political beliefs or trolls following just to pick a fight.

My timing seems to be precipitous (though maybe it just always feels that way on Twitter) as I saw a tweet to an article about new video live streaming technology from Periscope and Meerkat. So I retweeted it. I also started following @StationCDRKelly and his #yearinspace quest because it's so interesting to think about the length of a year, especially when you are away from home.

Good to be back to basics and brush up on best practices. Happy Tweeting.