Lots of folks have been twittering away on Twitter. I wrote briefly here about my then pending experiment with the site. Over the past two months, 50 poor demented souls have started following me and I’ve followed 153. In that time I’ve twittered about 50 times. What have I learned?

1)      Twitter has had lots of service interruptions. Sometimes it has been totally unavailable and other times it’s been available with limited functionality.

2)      Twits, my term for people who Twitter (more formally Tweet), find all sorts of ways to use their 140 character mini-blogs.

3)      Some Twits shamelessly promote whatever they are up to. There are lots of tinyurl.com links to blogs.

4)      Some Twits like to let everyone know where they are and what they are eating.

5)      Just like any form of self-promotion, some Twits are much better at it than others. I think that Laurie Ruettimann of Punk Rock Human Resources does a nice job. She has an interesting avatar, she tweets regularly, and she has a nice mix of personal tweets and promotional tweets.

6)      Much like LinkedIn, some Twits are building really huge networks. One fellow started following me. I was pleased that he thought that I was worth following until I saw that he follows 29,510 others!

It’s been an interesting exercise but I remain unconvinced as to the value that being active on Twitter provides. However, people are tweeting away at a great rate so they must be getting something out of it…