Search Institute

Okay. Mea culpa time. You should totally follow me on Twitter.

I’ve been fighting Twitter for a few months now. My brother is a social networking, web strategy, big thinking guru sort of dude. His company does this sort of big picture thinking for companies and they’re really good at it.

For months, Andrew has been saying, “Nate. You need to Twitter.”

And my response has been, “Andrew. No I don’t.”

But recently Andrew and I traveled together to Virginia. (Did we go to see Phish for three days? Perhaps we did, so what’s it to ya?)

It was on that trip that I finally “got” Twitter. The amount of timely, direct, and fluid information throughout those three days that happened because of Twitter was astounding. Upon my return, I started to poke around Twitter a little more.

I figured I’d find little more than “eating burrito for breakfast. yum!” or “stuck in traffic. yuck!” I was wrong. Within the past 48 hours of tweeting (?) I’ve found fantastic blogs, breaking news, scathing commentary about school reform, and much more.

So like fighting CDs because tapes were so cool or resisting the pull of facebook, I now admit that my recalcitrance was misplaced. Tweet on people!