Twitter in my sidebar

[Image: tweets]Over the past several months I’ve gone from not understanding and not wanting to use Twitter to finding it an essential part of my daily info-gathering and blog-fodder-finding. There’s a lot to like about Twitter.

I’m also signed up for Pownce, thanks to an invite from Tris, but I have yet to figure that service out, either. From what I hear all over the place, Pownce has a feature set that kicks Twitter’s ass, but (and I think I’ve said this before, but I don’t know where) it looks a bit too complicated at the moment.

I agree with Fred in his comment on his own blog:

pownce may be “killing” twitter in your eyes, but not in mine. I use both every day and I find pownce too complicated. the only thing i really use pownce for is sending big files to my friends and i use pando for that even more.

One of my favorite things about Twitter is that there is essentially one thing you can do: type a 140 character message to your friends. It’s hard to get lost doing that. There’s a bunch of icons in the sidebar that say who my friends are, and I can add anyone with one click when I am looking at their Twitter page.

Simple. Easy. No friction here.

When I log in to Pownce I have more options. My gut feeling is that after taking 15 minutes to figure it out, it probably is a lot more powerful. But even then - a have a community that I’ve already built inside Twitter, and while some of them are on Pownce, not all of them are.

Regardless, I am WAY off track. This post is really to let you know that I’ve taken the HTML badge code from Twitter and planted it in my sidebar. It’s pretty cool because they let you use your own CSS to format it any which way you like. So now you can keep tabs on my twittering by glancing to your right.

If you’re on Twitter, feel free to follow me, I’ll return the favor. Same goes for Pownce (although it’s “friending” there, I think). Jasonp107 in both places.