Last week I took the plunge and gave this blog a presence on the micro-blogging site Twitter, which you can find at twitter.com/sheffieldblog.

I’ve had a personal Twitter account for a year and have been thinking about doing this for a while. In the end I decided that the additional time taken to maintain a second account would be worthwhile, as I can use it to:

• alert non-RSS blog readers that a new post has been published
• give a home to Sheffield-related snippets/links that may not deserve a full blog post but are still of interest
• allow me to quickly and easily put content live while on the move
• act as a networking tool and means of promotion
• be a source for blog post material, as receiving tweets gives a continuing snapshot of what Sheffield Twitter-ers are up to

In due course, I will probably also use something like LoudTwitter to import tweets as posts into the main blog.

So if you are on Twitter then please hook up now!