Things # 15.5 : Twitter and Linkedin

Twitter, became an active user on it since a year ago. Mostly channel that I joined was news channel, like CNN, Bloomberg, local news channel. But now, I'm following several educations channel like @THE_Journal, @GETideas.org, @kathyschrock and will add many others.

Until today, I haven't define myself as a heavy twitter user, since I'm rarely open my twitter update, just do it once a day and read some interesting tweets and then share them if I feel necessary. But, I have some friends who really heavy user of twitter, he can tweet something every 2 or 3 hours, even though sometimes I feel that is quite disturbing, so I personally choose to do a selective re-tweet or tweet.

If you are using Android, Blackberry or iPhone, you can try to use Ubersocial, I feel more comfortable to use this application rather than using original Twitter application.

Linkedin, I have been using Linkedin for 5 years, but using it seriously by putting my professional information, updates and connections for about 3 years. I knew that some professional job services use Linkedin to find out initial background about people that they want to contact and approach, even sometimes I use it to find out background of persons that apply for a job and prepare an interview. So, I really feel that we have to be very careful in putting our information in Linkedin, since it is a professional networking media, means that we have to put a good resume and proper information to give a good impression for professional recruiter.