My Twitter Top 10

By Curtis Ogden

While I have not yet gotten to the point in the relationship where I am comfortable using the word “love,” there is plenty for me to like about Twitter. And so to the ever growing number of top 10 lists and reasons to tweet, here is my contribution:

1. Twitter raises the fine art of followership to the level of leadership.
2. In following some of my favorite thinkers and writers, I have come to see these folk as real people and in ways that make them (and their ideas) more accessible.
3. It is a great way to find great ideas in unexpected places.
4. It is a wonderful medium for quickly checking resonance with an idea.
5. It forces me to be succinct and focus on the nugget of value I want to convey.
6. It forces others to be succinct and focus on the nugget of value they want to convey.
7. It is easy to connect people and ideas, bridging boundaries and jumping networks.
8. The links, oh, the links.
9. It is a cool tool for starting conversations, or continuing them, before and after a physical convening.
10. It speaks to the power of collaboration, and “the survival of the knittest” (thank you, Melinda Weekes).