Musing. Twitter makes me more: informed, networked, amused, challenged to think, aware, enlightened, distracted, curious, connected, loved… I could probably go on all day. what about you? How would you fill in the blank: “Twitter makes me more ____________.”
you replied:
Matt Shandera @MattShandera Hmm good question: how about visable?
AnnOhio @AnnOhio *willing to spread my wings and try new things* Like meeting and connecting with soem amazing people. 
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Jim Turner @Genuine exposed
Tom Summit @tsummit Twitter makes me more: human and gregarious
Laura P Thomas @LPT twitter keeps me more informed, connected and up-to-date.
Aneel L @aneel twitter makes me more chatty
Chris Wilson @Aithene Distracted. Cozy. Its like I’m hanging out in a room full of people I mostly like. 
Ed Illig @Illig That’s quite a list. H’m, “…a better cook.” also inspires me to continue learning, appreciate/respect creativity of others.
Stowe Boyd @stoweboyd “Twitter makes me more messy, and messiness is good.”
royblumenthal @royblumenthal Twitter makes me more connecting.
Colin Walker @ColinWalker using your “Twitter makes me more…” tweet in a blog post as an illustration if you don’t mind. (@colinwalker have at it, thanks!)
Starman @istarman connected
jljohansen @jljohansen Twitter makes me feel less alone in my cube
Adele McAlear @adelemcalear Twitter makes me sharper, at the front of the curve, more concise, connected, informed…
Phillip Zannini @phillymac Distracted 
Tiara Shafiq @divabat “…likely to procrastinate.”
squishythefish @squishythefish …informed
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David Parmet @davidparmet twitter makes me more distracted and socialable.
Eden Spodek @EdenSpodek Twitter makes me feel more connected, informed and among friends who speak the same language 24/7.
Colin Walker @ColinWalker Twitter makes me more inspired to create thoughtful blog posts
Seth Brady @sethbrady Twitter keeps me more informed and closer to some contacts from a previous company than when I worked alongside him!
Liz Laneri @Lizzer Twitter makes me “speak up”
TDefren @TDefren (typo’d last time!) … Twitter makes me more concise & more creative … which feels like a contradiction!
Greg Verdino @gregverdino distracted.
Susanna King @superflippy Twitter makes me distracted, aware, jealous, doodle, comment on blogs.
Rick Mahn @rickmahn Twitter/more… “socially aware”, “adept at learning”, “succinct as a writer”, “productive as a writer”, “patient as a listener”
Josh Hinds @joshhinds ‘twitter makes me more clear and to the point in what I want to communicate’
Sheila Scarborough @SheilaS Twitter allows me to express all my interests: music, history, travel, sociology, Web 2.0, drag racing, good food….
Dan York @danyork Twitter makes me practice brevity.
Vice-Queen Maria @vicequeenmaria “Twitter has made this reclusive phase of my life all the more bearable.”
chelpixie @chelpixie Twitter makes me accompanied. While working. Thank @matthewebel for that one, though I agree.
Kara Soluri @karasoluri Twitter makes me more like myself. No time to pretend in 140 characters or less. And what would be the point?
Ike Pigott @ikepigott Twitter makes me more creative with abbreviations, concatenations, and space-resource-limiting communications. (My lamentation)
Jay F.H. @jfhscribbles “Twitter makes me more colorful. Without it I’m just a two-toned productive pill. Who wants that?…not me.”
Nina Bargiel @slackmistress Twitter makes more conscious of writing in 140 characters or less!
zenaweist @zenaweist Twitter makes me more thankful for all the tweeple/PEAple I’ve met – wonderful stories, conversations, learnings, sharing
Tracy Lee @StarrGazr Twitter makes me all aquiver!
Rob La Gesse @kr8tr … “disappointed when Twitter doesn’t work”
Scott Monty @ScottMonty So many answers: connected. dizzy. confident I’ve got a future in stand-up comedy.
Kim Fenolio @KimFenolio Twitter makes me more aware of what’s happening in the rest of the world.
Christine Taylor @mousewords Twitter makes me part of a community. Also more aware, informed, entertained, gregarious. Makes me broaden my thinking.
ElisabetMcLauryLewin @podcastmama Twitter makes me more aware of little undercurrents before they become tidal waves
Kait Swanson @kaitswanson Twitter makes me more likely to read smart things I wouldn’t find on my own.
Cathryn Hrudicka @CreativeSage Twitter makes me more aware of how different people think, feel and live.
Katie Delahye Paine @kdpaine twitter makes me more open minded
Katie Delahye Paine @kdpaine twitter makes me a better speaker on the subject of social media because it gives me more good stories
George Bolam @tindle Twitter gives me an excuse to laugh at my own jokes..
Katie Delahye Paine @kdpaine twitter makes me aware of all the stuff that goes on outside my little kingdoms of NH and measurement
George Bolam @tindle Twitter makes me begin to like people again…
Amanda Gravel @AmandaGravel Twitter makes me more inspired
Michael Gruen @gruen Twitter makes me more. Period.
Mike Keliher @mjkeliher Twitter makes me more likely to share. Twitter makes me more likely to skip blogging. Twitter makes me smarter.
Robert Collins @RobertCollins “Twitter makes me more ____” understood
Doug Haslam @DougH Twitter makes me more productive. Twitter makes me more social. Twitter makes more smarter.
Adam Cohen @adamcohen aware, omnipotent, connected
Dave Fleet @davefleet connected; inspired; thoughtful
Kim Fenolio @KimFenolio Twitter makes me more connected. Twitter makes me more friends. Twitter makes me more likely to act.
zenaweist @zenaweist twitter makes me more connected – w/ colleagues, friends, SMEs.
AnnOhio @AnnOhio Twitter makes me more *giggly* and helps me through the really tough days that life tosses now and then.
Christopher Penn @cspenn easily followed by the FBI. Hi guys!
Corrie Bergeron @skydaddy “Twitter makes me more ____” smarter!
Timothy J. Finucane @speljamr “Twitter makes me more twittery.”
Timothy J. Finucane @speljamr “Twitter makes me more distracted.”
Kimberly Goza @Activated Twitter makes me more likely to go out and create twitterable moments; involved w/online community; aware.
Andre Blackman @mindofandre definitely more connected and enlightened
Erno Hannink @ernohannink you already mentioned many good ones http://is.gd/124 Twitter makes me more happy, curious, together, informed, up-to-date, lol
maggie fox @maggiefox Twitter makes me feel hyper socialized.
Corrie Bergeron @skydaddy “smarter”
Jen Flanigan @BucketJen Damn, you already got “aware”. That was mine.
Douglas E. Welch @dewelch …aware
Anna Farmery @Engagingbrand mmmm can’t decide between creative or connected
Andrea Mercado @andreamercado Twitter makes me more concise.
tombreeves @tombreeves twitter makes me more exasperating?
David Parmet @davidparmet twitter makes me more distracted and socialable.
francine hardaway @hardaway compassionate.
Shashi Bellamkonda @shashib twitter makes know more people and that gives me more variety in point of views
Connie Crosby @conniecrosby Twitter makes me more “up” on current events!
Lucy Gray @elemenous Twitter makes more aware of others’ work in my field, educational technology.
Tom Guarriello @tomguarriello Twitter makes me more nosy!
Ben Huyck @jebelmuus Twitter makes me more likely to voice the random thoughts in my head.
Jennifer Gniadecki @jennydecki have “connected” and “accountable” “harassed” and “loved” already been taken?
Karen Sugarpants @trollbaby Twitter makes me constipated.
janapochop @janapochop Twitter makes me more aware that my craziness is not unique and i like it that way
stshores24 @stshores24 Twitter makes me more _talkative_.
bruinmike @bruinmike Twitter makes me more aware of how the simplest things in life are worth writing about.
Scott Schablow @sschablow Twitter makes me more astute, aware and attentive.
EdenSpodek @EdenSpodek Twitter makes me feel more connected, informed and among friends who speak the
same language 24/7.
gingerlewman @GingerTPLC…makes me more able to find engaging tools and thoughtful collaboration opportunities for my students and me.
Suvi-Tuuli M-A @tuuli1 Twitter makes me more hyperactive.
AnnOhio @AnnOhio Twitter makes me more appreciative of the world around me through the eyes of people from all over the world…
Ben Huyck @jebelmuus twitter is either really *good* for my ADD, or really *bad*. I’m going with good.
Dan Mosqueda @mosqueda Twitter makes me more empathetic, considerate, interested in stuff I didn’t think I’d really care about.
royblumenthal @royblumenthal Twitter makes me more creative; I flow when I’m using it.
Karen Sugarpants @trollbaby Twitter makes me more insane with love for my friends with each passing day.
Kevin Dugan @prblog Twitter makes me smarter, faster.” But that’s not saying a lot on some days 
royblumenthal @royblumenthal Twitter makes me wanna read more Twitter every day.
royblumenthal @royblumenthal Twitter makes me wake up with my mobile phone in my hand, pressing ‘reload’ so I don’t miss anything.
Vice-Queen Maria @vicequeenmaria is it safe to say Twitter brings out the best in people?
Elizabeth Albrycht @ealbrycht “Twitter makes me feel more connected to the world.” Esp. as an expat in France who works from home most of the time.
ChazFrench @ChazFrench crossing various body parts for you.
Debra @debroby is this a “why do you love twitter” question? Twitter is all my office friends, plus my coffee shop friends rolled together.
Suki Fuller @Suki_MHC05 Twitter makes me more appreciative of words”
Todd Jordan @Tojosan Twitter brings us together
Todd Jordan @Tojosan twitter enables connections
annie boccio @banannie7 got room for 1 more? Twitter has showm me how similar we are, despite our differences. None of us are alone when we have twitter!
Monty @akaMonty twitter doesn’t make us ALL better. It makes some people more cliquish, it makes some people feel ignored.
Stephan @sdohrn Twitter makes me more OPEN about 10 hours ago from twhirl in reply to Pistachio Icon_star_empty
Andrea Vascellari @vascellari I’m still thinking about what Twitter makes me more…
Andrea Vascellari @vascellari heh…for sure makes me think more! this stream of thoughts, ideas, opinions from all over the globe is simply great
jljohansen @jljohansen Another. Twitter makes me more assertive because “I think” takes 7 characters I can rarely spare.
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…concerned about stuff i might want to retract later. Twitter’s got no undo/delete button!
I like this collection, Laura.
Alan, I do think there IS a delete button
@alanjones – That little trash can in the right bottom corner of your tweets – as far as I understand – that deletes your tweet.
This was a brilliant exercise and post Laura. Great question and greatly handled.
if I’m online but not inspired at that moment to go somewhere (“what to do”) I let myself follow… I let Twitter to find me a tiny link leading to an unpredictable place.
Keren
so the answer is: spontaneous
I missed the deadline- my yesterday reply was:
“Twitter makes me more MicroFastoSocial.”
Laura, thanks for the great idea and for collecting & publishing the responses.
Thanks For the comments, folks. Shel, thanks for the kind words and for Tweeting about it. Nahum, we have one more batch that @chelpixie is still cleaning up for the post. Pretty sure yours is in there and will make it up eventually.
@Linda that seems to delete it from your own page but it seems to remain in the RSS feed version, which is indexed by Google and remains searchable. Read up on the trouble Steve Rubel got into here:
http://www.micropersuasion.com/2007/04/open_letter_les.html
Excellent and really informative little piece, this.. There were dozens of things I could have said, and, in the course of doing so, repeated many of the those contributed by others.
I’m loathe to say this, because, for the first few weeks of using Twitter, I was highly ambivelant about it..I would love Twitter and then hate it with equal venom, often vacilating between the two in the course of an hour, but, today, I love it. I now regard Twitter as an essential part of my day, and one of the best discoveries I’ve made on the internet in the last decade.
Thank you Laura..Nice one!
Regards,
@tindle
What a great list! Thanks for putting it together. Be well, @tombreeves
Twitter turns me on
Twitter makes me addictive, gives me opportunity to some of the great personalities of Internet to whom I may have never met in my life otherwise
Twitter makes me more of a voyuer! And of course twitter has a delete button. I’m a big fan of deleting tweets. sometimes it’s just too much information…
Porous.
“Sponges are porous so they can filter water while trapping food.”
Needless to say, I missed your twit. Which is one of the down falls of micro blogging; few people seem to visit the archives of a “Twit.”
If I might add to your list .. @DivaToby twitter makes me more a part of the social media community.
A friend of mine back home in Vancouver, Geoff Meredith, is also a big fan of Twitter. I just don’t get it. I’ve looked at it from every angle but don’t see it as anything more than mild amusement for bored office workers and teenagers.
I do wonder if things like Twitter and Facebook will be around in 5 years, merely looked at historically as a passing fad?
Hi Robert W. Sounds like you are precisely on the right track. Twitter looks ridiculous. The difference comes when you start to experience unanticipated, astonishing benefits… See my “Ode to Twitter” http://is.gd/15u and “Twitter is my Village” http://is.gd/Aq
Makes me wanna tweet, tweet, tweet.
Jimmy
@jimmyadames
Makes me grow & learn from some amazing people
makes me more electric or makes the electric more “me/ us”. buzz…
…makes me smarter.
makes me more ready to share
Twitter makes me more Twitterpated! Strike that. Let’s go with: Twitter makes me more Atomik Ronnie 2.0. Yeah, yeah, heh heh.
Twitter makes Me more connected and reminds Me that it IS a small world, after all…
Twitter makes me more social. It’s not just about sitting in front of my computer — it’s connecting me to my friends in meatspace, too.
And more on the “delete” topic — there are indeed trash can icons, but it only deletes it from *view*, not from RSS or the database.
Search Tweetscan, Summize, or Google for your deleted tweet and see for yourself (unless they’ve made a huge change in the last week or so).
Twitter makes me ….
Aware.
Concise.
Connected.
(And to those of you who have wondered, that little delete trash can doesn’t really delete your tweets. They’re not present on the Twitter board, but they’re on Summize and other places of record.)
abandon my RSS reader
Twitter makes me more geeky and self-aware.
Twitter is fun and informative. We are a community and we share ups and downs sadness and hurt good things and bad. We feel real emotions about these people that we may never meet face to face.
Twitter makes me seem like more of a thought leader
Twitter makes me more aware of breaking news in the world and in internet stuff
I find twitter makes me more relaxed and spontaneous. In ten years I have never played a game on my computer, never even SEEN the games on the last 4 pc’s I have owned, rarely allow myself to take a *break* unless it is to run to do a household chore and get right back to work, so twitter lets me allow myself lots of mini-breaks in between my scheduled work time. And I love watching YOUR tweets, Pistachio!
Most of my twitter friends are bloggers and everybody is announcing his/her new blog posts. Other news from the world are dropping in and are mostly informing and inspiring.
Sence I’m using twitter more intensively I have reduced my stumbling activities. New stuff arrives quicker on twitter than on SU.
Twitter is also a good way to get to know new friends. OK, I stop now with my twitter praise. New friends are welcome.
@ArtCareerDeva Twitter make me more aware of my own presents within a community of presence.
more…incapable of getting our work done, but happier for it!
This list is amazing and inspiring! What a wonderful idea! I’m about to RT this.
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