A friend of mine sent me to the CEO of Twitter, Evan Williams Blog and this is what was written. It’s simple and brilliant and I decided to steal it…. giving him full credit of course, so he doesn’t sue the pants off of me.

“Starting a company is like landing on the shore of a deserted island.  

You have a certain amount of provisions, which you have to make last until you find a way to make the island sustain life—or convince someone to send you more. 

You don’t know how big the island is at first or what predators lie in wait. 

There’s always a chance someone else will raid your island if it looks fruitful, so you need to shore up your defenses. 

Eventually, if you’re successful, you’ll be king of your own prosperous world. If not, you’ll die—or, at least, have to go home.

Either way, it’s a fun adventure (until you get eaten by a tiger).”

I couldn’t agree more.  I do have one question though.  What’s the CEO of Twitter doing on a Blogger account though.  I mean seriously.  Hasn’t he heard of another small business out there?

So check this out.  I noticed today that I have crossed the ‘four hundred followers’ mark on my Twitter.  Now, I realize that several of these are companies following me in order to get me to follow them and buy Viagra or something, but four hundred is a pretty substantial number I think.

Now here’s the thing.  I feel like I suck at Twitter, but I’m about to change that.  I follow several folks that are really good at using Twitter and I aspire to be one of them.  I think the thing that weirds me out about it is that I know that if I decide to Twitter something there is the chance that several people will be getting a text message from me…. saying something stupid… or pointless.  That’s intimidating to me.

But no more.  I’ve decided to try to get better at Twitter and not care about who might be sitting in a movie or in church or something like that.  I’m going to type what I think and forget that I just might be interrupting your ‘alone time’ with your husband or wife with a stupid text message about something I saw on the way to Target.  Sound good?

I imagine a lot of you are on Twitter already, but for those that aren’t, why not?  What keeps you from it?  And for those that are already on Twitter, are you following me?

Well, I did it. I signed up on several of the world wide web social networking systems against my better judgement. You might be asking, why. Why did Brody sign up on all of those world wide web social networking systems?

Well I can tell you why. I did it so I could use them to point people here. I did it so I could learn how to use them to point people here. And I did it because I need to know how to use that stuff. So there you have it folks. Yes, I have a MySpace. No, there is nothing on it. Yes, I have a Facebook. No, there is nothing on it. Yes I have a Virb. You guessed it… nothing on it. I also have a Twitter account, that I have used a couple times, but, no there’s not much there. Aren’t you impressed?

So now comes the fun part of digging through all the weird code and verifications to make sure I know how to work these things. After all, everyone has them right? Now I do to.

Seriously, what really spurred this on was the announcement of this, and my quest to know more about the different things concerning artists and online presence. Who knows maybe someday we can all work together as a big happy world wide web social networking family.