Twitter: If It's Good Enough for Oprah, It's Good Enough for Me

by Anna Post

Today I joined Twitter.  www.twitter.com/AnnaPost. Up until now I had felt like one of those hold outs who wouldn't read Harry Potter or see Juno because of the hype.

Silly me. The forum is perfect for little etiquette quirks I hear about or links to interesting news that I either don't have enough to say about in a blog, or more usually, don't have the time to do justice to in a blog.  One of my first tweets today was on the now-public email rant that DC Congressional staffer Elizabeth Becton made about someone calling her "Liz." There are so many etiquette angles about it I would love to explore:

• avoid nicknames unless you are sure it's okay
• call or see someone if an email goes South--as The New York Times reported, in the absence of tone or voice or facial expression our interpretation defaults to the negative
• your image in business isn't yours alone, it's also your company's, or in this case, Congressman's
• emails seem private in business; they aren't
• good etiquette doesn't use ALL CAPS
• good etiquette corrects without chastising
• good etiquette accepts apologies
• good etiquette... well, you get the idea

However, I simply don't have time in my schedule today to give more than an outline. But I still want all of you to enjoy the ridiculousness of it! Enter Twitter.

And yes, my correct-usage-of-the-English-language loving mother is now calling me a Twit. She gets the whole Twitter thing, but it sure is making her laugh awful loud.

Comments

[Dawn]

You are a twerd!