I used to associate twitter with Lindsey Lohan failing her drug test. Then one day I was at a design event and attendees were asked how they found out about it. Everyone said twitter. I said the Daily Heller. Then I was told that the Daily Heller had a twitter feed, and other design-related feeds had tweeted about the event as well. Interesting.

This inspired me to set up a twitter account. And download the twitter app for my iPhone. It took a while for me to build up a list of people to follow. I got ideas from looking at who other designers followed. I love type, so I started following Hoefler Frere-Jones, who follows we love typography, and now so do I. I also follow a lot of the followers of we love typography. I follow Ellen Lupton who tweeted about an article in the New York Times, so I signed up to follow the NYT directly. I discovered that some people tweet too much. I really don’t need to know what you’re doing that’s design-related every. single. hour. Then i figured out how to unfollow people. Just like unfriending on facebook. A timesaver and great alternative to abstinence.

Yesterday I tweeted for the third time! It’s not often that I feel like I have anything worth tweeting. It was very exciting, like publishing that first blog post. That feeling of ‘look at me, i’m out and about in the world! Twitter has become my new favorite tool for communicating with the design community. I will now tweet about this post. Follow me @laramacaroon