Last week, Jeremiah Owyang published "Follow me on Twitter, and I'll follow you back", which I commented on. I didn't take long until a bunch of people started to follow me (Hello to everyone!), several whom I really don't know why I haven't followed earlier.

In a few days, on March 3., it'll be one year since my first tweet, and I just passed the magic 1,000-mark. Personally, I'm completely hooked on Twitter, and I use it in the same ways as Jeremiah describes in his post, but still a lot of people don't understand what the big deal is.

To me, Twitter is the most comprehensive and yet most simple way to communicate globally with people in the same business as I am in. At times, I wonder if the PR and media industries are more wired than other, but it wouldn't surprise me if there are small Twitter-communities out there that connects people interested in welding, scuba diving, knitting or NASCAR.

So yes, I'm a Twitter evangelist, and for me it is a great tool to keep up with what's going on in the social media sphere. That said, and Jeremiah points this out in an update as well: "Twitter is NOT for everyone, but those that want to be part of the early influencer conversation should look there. It’s true there is more noise than signal, but when the signal does occur, it often cascades to many other mediums." A lot of people write about Twitter these days, and thus it will probably gain even more traction. Lionel Menchaca from Direct2Dell (Dell is a Sermo Consulting client) has written about his usage and Jeff Jarvis from BuzzMachine has dedicated his column in The Guardian to "Why short is tweet for the blogging community".

'm frjohnsen on Twitter, and if you follow me, I'll follow you right back.