Go Tweet yourself! February 20th, 2009
Honestly. Go tweet yourself! Go, go on and sign up for an account at Twitter.com. I have found that it is one of the most influential tools for helping get better at web design is Twitter. While many people view it as a ’social networking website’ I think that it’s value is greatly different from that of Myspace or Facebook.
I remember when I first began using twitter. I installed Twitteriffic on my Iphone, and I added my girlfriend and one tutorial website. I think maybe two or three weeks passed where all I would do was scour the internet looking for new blogs to add to my twitter feed. Within those two weeks, I basically disregarded having Twitter on my phone. It makes sense- why look at your phone when you can just look up and ask your girlfriend how her day was? But somewhere around that third week to a month I must have been bored trying to kill time, and I opened Twitteriffic on my phone. It was like the messiah had gifted me with links to EVERY TUTORIAL I COULD EVER NEED!! I must have had about 25 people I was following by this point and I thought OMG this is fantastic, I need to drop what Im doing and go try out this new CSS trick, or download this limited freebie font!
This basically changed my life. (Maybe not my life per-say, but my daily routine had some changes.) Now every day when I wake up to look at my phone and check my email. Next I’ll hop on to view the latest tweets about design. Its a great way to get my gears turning in the morning. I have also habitually grown to stare at my feed the same as O C D people do random objects.
Anyway before I get off topic I think if your looking for inspiration for design- GET TWITTER! If you want you can take a look at who I follow and add them to the list. If you want you can also follow me!
twitter: world_famous