Sunday, March 30, 2008 -- 8:52 p.m. -- at my desk

Change is inevitable, so I've been thinking and re-evaluating the best way to use Twitter on this site.

And while I'll still use it as a breaking news vehicle, it's important that I use it to its full potential.

So, starting now, you'll see a new addition to the right rail (pictured) inviting you (read as: asking you) to Tweet what you see on my blog.

The idea is simple ... if every single person who uses Twitter shares what they see on the blog with all of the people they know on Twitter, my audience grows. But my audience growing isn't about numbers ... my audience growing means a bigger and more vibrant iPhone community and that's all I've ever really wanted from this blog.

Tweeting to someone else via iPTIB could not be easier. You literally click on the link, sign into Twitter and you are good to go. You do need a Twitter account, so I suggest you sign up if you don't have one - it's just a great thing to have even without this blog.

Hopefully, the people who check it out on your recommendation tell their friends and everyone ends up coming back for more.

Other things I'm thinking about include sending all posts to Twitter. That way, all of the people in the Twitter Army can share with their Twitter friends and that's just one more way we can grow the community. Although I'm already hearing that that might be overkill, so I'll be thinking long and hard before making such a drastic change.

Let me know your thoughts on this please, as your opinion means a lot of course.

Thanks for calling.

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"Other things I'm thinking about include sending all posts to Twitter. That way, all of the people in the Twitter Army can share with their Twitter friends and that's just one more way we can grow the community."

That sounds potentially incredibly annoying.

SCOTT'S REPLY: Too many posts? It's all in the planning stages so it can be tweaked. Are you one of those people who get all of their tweets on your iPhone?

Of course, John, you realize, it would be a tweet to a link, not to the actual post, right? Does that make a difference or not really?

I don't get any tweets on my phone because I think it's annoying (and it's an iPhone, I can look at Twitter whenever I want with it!). Here's what I find - if I'm subscribe to an RSS feed and someone tweets all their posts, and the volume grows, it gets annoying. (I'm sensitive to this because I tweet my own posts, but it's about 3 per week.)

I don't know what the right answer to this is, because I think we're all still working out the best way to use these media, but honestly, I think others will twitter about your posts when they find them particularly useful, whether you send a tweet about the post or not, but you shouldn't want (or expect) people to refer to them constantly.

But then, I tend to unfollow people if the tweet nothing but links, so maybe I'm weird.

sorry, I know this isn't the most helpful thing - I just find that it gets tedious when someone I know has lots of "new blog post" tweets every day, unless they have a lot of OTHER stuff in between them.

SCOTT'S REPLY: Actually, it's more helpful than you know, John. I like the idea of perhaps just having "Twit This" on my page so people would consider tweeting the page if they see something interesting.

As a Twitter user, John, is that something you can see yourself doing? Hitting Twit This to your Twitter followers to point out an especially interesting post on my blog?

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