Professional designers it turns out have a lot to say on the subject of Twitter. There isn't a great deal of agreement as to whether or not Twitter is useful or if it signals the end of the world as we know it. Whatever your position on its utility there are quite a few creatives that use it and the ranks are growing.

Twitter. Tweets. Tweeps. What does it all mean? And, groan, do I really need to learn to do something new?

Short answer: depends. Long answer: probably.

As I wrote earlier in this blog, I'm a recent convert to Twitter. I had a watershed moment the other day when it dawned on me what Twitter represented.

I signed up for Twitter a ways back and then didn't do anything with it for months. I really didn't know why I should try to fit a blog post into 140 characters. It seemed silly and pointless. But then more and more people started using Twitter to keep in touch, to update friends on news and something twigged.