Sunday Miscellany: TWITTER!

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Tweeps, Tweeters, Tweople,
Lend me your hashtags...

I never used to spend much time on the twitter. It was a great place to quickly complain (in <140 ch) or send someone a quick DM, but I did not see the possibilities for connectivity. Also, my brain hurt trying to read so much. Did you know Nathan Fillion posts a lot of pictures of sunsets?

So as part of my New Year's Resolution (caps make it important), I vowed to clean up my lists, dive back in, and use the Twitter like it was meant to be used - for social networking.

Also, to stop calling it THE Twitter.

Lo and behold during my very first week of Tweeting there was to be a Twitter-bate-cussion on the topic of Shakespeare! My colleague, Mike LoMonico, took a bolder stance on an issue I had blogged about before and got the interest of Howard Sherman and Peter Marks, who started a tweet-bate about using Shakespeare's original language. Sherman suggested a Twinternet Gathering  including STC's Artistic Director to discuss further with more people and a hashtag. Thus was there to be the #pmdhes gathering of 2012.

Honestly, I couldn't follow half of it. And I'm not sure we were always on track with the original intent of the discussion (which was about the "Soul of Shakespeare") but I had a lot of fun, made some new friends, got rewtweeted and favorited a few times, and totally feel like I'm making progress on my resolution. It is, of course, January.

A Transcript of the whole thing is HERE (thanks to Sherman for turning that over in record time!). You have to read from bottom to top because that's how the internet works.

Keep me honest! Follow me @linthenerd and let me know if cool things Shakespearean are happening. Also, I obviously have no idea what Twittering Conversations With Many People are called... so help me out with that, too.