All Across the Interweb
By Kelly Olsen-Stanko
Therapy Times is an online resource and as such, we're committed to providing you with the most current and innovative therapy news and information sent to your inbox, phone, or computer screen. But if you thought we were all over the Web before, think again. Now you can follow us on Twitter, friend us on Facebook, or become our contact in LinkedIn – and we hope you will.
I must admit, I wasn't Twitter-savvy before we started this endeavor. Facebook? Piece of Cake. Myspace? In my sleep. But Twitter? I wasn't so sure about this one. What are retweets? How do I tell if someone tweeted at me?
However, the process turned to be pretty painless, and is now my favorite one to update. Being confined to a 140-word limit was initially going against everything I've learned as a writer, but now I've come to regard it as a practice in creativity – ultimately fun and challenging. So if you haven't made your online presence known, through Twitter or any of the other social networking sites that Therapy Times is apart of, I hope that you'll sign up and check us out. And if it turns out that it's fun and you like it, then that's okay, too.
Yes, of course, you can follow me and several of my colleagues on Twitter and I’ll be the first to say that I like Twitter — it’s useful finding out what friends, coworkers, and even celebrity big-shots are reading and thinking.
But Twitter is still a fad from what I've read recently in a study focusing on “Twitter Quitters,” people who start a Twitter account but then fail to return the next month. Twitter, the study points out, has a very low retention rate, just 40%. Unless it figures out how to get more people to stick around, that means Twitter won’t ever achieve sizable reach online.
Just one more step in the road to instant knowledge and gratification, the light speed of the need to know now :) Best of luck, Kelly!