Tweet, Tweet
I’m jumping on the Twitter train. I had been putting off starting up my account because I wasn’t sure I could quickly get the feed to show up on this here blog; I have to manipulate the HTML code to change any layout on this page and I haven’t done anything in a while. It takes me a while to reacquaint myself with the complex code and I’m always afraid I’ll make some change and not be able to figure my way out of the code I just broke. And making my Twitter feed available on my blog was something I really wanted to do right from the start.
But this afternoon, after I sent a friend a long message explaining why I hadn’t gotten around to it yet, I realized that I could probably get the darn thing up and running in the same amount of time it took me to tell her why I hadn’t done it yet. So, after work, I did it. Fortunately, I had already done something at least similar to the layout change on my PolicyWonk blog, so I snagged that code and finished it lickety-split.
So, I will have my most recent 10 tweets at the top of my main blog page, as you should see above. I might bring this down to 5 once I see how much real estate 10 tweets takes up.
If you are a Twitter user, you can follow me at http://twitter.com/annenb.
I don’t think I can make my tweets show up in the RSS feed for this blog. So, if you follow my blog through a reader, you’ll need to set up another subscription for my Twitter feed if you want to follow it.
I’m kind of excited about this new tool. It takes so much time for me to get a regular blog post up, which I’ll continue to do at my usual snail’s pace, that I think it’ll be a good way for me to keep things really up to date. I’ll just follow up with more details and photos after the fact. Onwards and upwards!