Twitter is the New Google

Did you know Google isn't really a search engine?  It's an advertising agency that uses a search engine to pull you in.  I'm not knocking it - Google works great.  But there's another cool way to get answers: Twitter.

Once you get more than a few dozen followers on Twitter.com, you can get some great answers out of them.  I can post, "How do you run with your iPhone?" and get back a lot of responses from people who actually run with one.

The key is knowing how to phrase the question and also to have a large enough audience.  You can ask a bunch of runners how to upgrade SQL Server while juggling monkeys and you might not get a response.  Lots of runners are into tech stuff, so you never know.

Asking questions is a fun way to start up conversations and make new friends, too.  Enjoy it!