Do you Tweet and Feed?
My hubby has been pestering me about it for a while already, why wouldn’t I make a Twitter account?
I actually never quite got the whole ’see what I’m doing now’ thing, I was on Facebook and whenever I felt like sharing my thoughts, I updated my status there, enough for me already! But I kept getting the question: "Why don’t you tweet?" or "Are you still not on Twitter?" and more out of curiosity I allowed hubby to show me what it’s all about. He asked for a couple of names of fellow designers, did a search for them and BAM, they were all there. With more updates about their newest products, blog posts, photo posts than they had on their Facebook account. Before I knew it, he had made an account for me and let me ‘follow’ a couple of my favorite designers. And so it happened: I’m officially "tweeting"! I actually already have a hand full of followers, wowzers! 
It’ll be a challenge for me to say what I have to say in maximum 140 characters as I tend to over explain myself all the time, but hey, it’ll teach me to get straight to the point more often!
If anyone wants to follow me on Twitter, here’s my brand new account! I will use it mainly for updates about my store stuff AND always in English, which is something I’m having a hard time with on Facebook.
The majority of my Facebook friends do not understand Dutch, but still I tend to update way more in Dutch than in English. I think it would look awkward and blasé for my family and nearest friends if I updated only in English, and besides my updates there are more about my every day life, which relate far more to them than to my fellow scrappers… I am really thinking about splitting up: one account for my international friends and one for my home buddies… But wouldn’t that be complicated for anyone who wants to invite me as their friend? Aaargh. The joys of social networking!
So back to tweeting. I looked a bit silly after I clicked about 70 people’s names to follow in Twitter and then posting my first status, realizing nobody would read it since I had NO FOLLOWERS myself. Bwaahaha, how is that for a boost to my popularity feeling! I asked hubby: how does one get followers? And he replied to me I needed to let people know I was tweeting, and that probably the ones I clicked to follow would follow me back. Well, about 10 of them actually did, woohoow!
The next step was - you may have already noticed that fancy blue bird in the top right corner of this page - linking my blog to my Twitter account. I DID THAT ALL BY MYSELF BY THE WAY. I’m not mentioning how long it took me to do that though.
After I was knee deep into my blog appearance thing, I decided I wasn’t really happy anymore with how my blog looked. I made a couple of small changes in the sidebar (mainly moved things around, but hey, it’s a start!) and I added to my giant to-do list: ‘Make New Header For Blog". Yay. already looking forward to that, although it might take me a couple of months to get there!
Another something I investigated further while messing with my site, was the whole "Feed THING". I never understood that either! I mean, I know it is meant for people to subscribe to my blog, but when I googled about it I read things like I should have separate feeds and feeds for the comments and for single posts and so on, it made my head spin since I didn’t follow any blogs myself (YET) and I still don’t get why they use the word ‘FEED’ for it. And that was the reason - when I was looking at the incoming links in my blog stats- I clicked the one coming from a place named ‘Feedly‘. Boy. A whole new world opened to me. I learned that I can actually follow all my favorite blogs and sites AND get updates of their new posts on one single page! It took me more than a day to customize it and add all my favorite blogs, putting them in different categories, marking my favorite ones but now that it’s up to date: I LOVE IT!!! How come I didn’t discover this any sooner?!
I finally understood the joys and importance of ‘feeding’ or ‘feeds’!
And it was only after that I found out that people are actually subscribed to my own humble little blog as well! WOW and THANKS guys! You must probably think now I’m either plain stupid or from another planet, ROFL.
Anyway, to make it a little easier for others to start following me, I’ve added a ’subscribe’ button in the sidebar as well. It’s a flashy one since in unfolds when you hover over it so you can choose by which means you want to follow me. I thought this might be interesting for some of my clients since I regularly post exclusive coupons here on my blog whenever I release new products!
Can you imagine how savvy I feel now? heehee. Feed you next time!! Bye!
