I use Twitter purely for personal matters (@MrRenoDakota) - mixing business with pleasure never works out in the end.

As for songs for your quandary...

Been toying with twitter for a few weeks. Aside from following a few comic, sports and news feeds I've probably only connected with folk from this blog.

If I'm totally honest, I'm finding in it counter productive to my enjoyment of the word blog.

Don't know why, probably something to do with quality of information and feeling obligated to post something. I found myself tweeting yesterday that I was on the half way line at the Daggers V Wimbledon match. Who the hell cares?

On the blog, at least I'm driven to think reasonably carefully before posting something. On twitter there is no such mechanism for control.

I quite like Danny B's stance of using it as an outlet for his material. It makes him fun to follow knowing that it is a creative outlet.

I think, I've just resigned from the twitter club!

With the benefit of hindsight, it might have been wise to send tweets telling people who you were.

This has certainly got me wondering just who may have been behind some of the weird and wonderful followers I've had...

Just see the feeds as different streams of information. The fact that they all come from you doesn't matter. Having two for different sorts of info makes perfect sense. There'll be a transitional phase when you realign them, but don't worry about it. prioritise the work on as that makes you money!

I am too foul mouthed over there to even contemplate using it for business purposes. However were I to use twitter for business, I'd keep it well separate. Seems sensible to me.

Personally I dislike the way Twitter has developed. It may be useful for sending short, sharp alerts to people who need to know what you're doing, but 99% seems to be irritating babble from people who think it's all about how quantity rather than quality.

I can appreciate a considered, well written blog. I can't appreciate a stream of top of the head remarks jostling with brainless updates and sales pitches.

Then again, I am a grumpy old git.

as tweeted by Drakeygirl and other folks of this parish makes Twitter worth the effort all on it's own. I guess it's a matter of different pricks for different kicks.

Waste of time. An occasional use of Facebook and this Blog brings me enough attention, ta very much.

I think the whole point of Twitter is its eclectic nature: a whole bunch of people talking bollocks about a whole bunch of stuff. Personally, if someone only ever talks about one thing then I tend to get rather bored. A classic example is someone like Jon Favreau: someone who's probably quite witty, but unfortunately only uses Twitter for two things: 1. Publicising his latest film, and 2. Retweeting what other people are saying about his latest film. Even if I wanted to see his latest film, that would be enough for me to discreetly unfollow. Sorry.

clique activites obviously. Like anything you need to put some effort in. Just crossing your arms and saying "impress me" is pointless.

Use it or not - it matters nowt

I've tried it, but it isn't for me. Too much info makes my mind race, and I could see it becoming addictive. As DFB says though, use it if you want to and don't if you don't. Horses for courses.

Now enjoying the experience.

@Adman2011

If you like, get in touch if you are a Massive member & I haven't tracked you down to follow you yet. Only been on a couple of days. Larks, so far.

on using Twitter on a smartphone? I've had the idea of being logged onto our business twitter on my laptop, and personal twitter on my phone. Would that work do you think, or do you have to go to a computer sometimes for some of the functions?

BTW the separate personal account is so much better. So thanks to all for your patience and understanding.

As you can see I'm fairly new to a lot of this new technology/social networking malarkey, but trying to catch up fast and not make too many gaffes on the way!

noticed an upturn in spam tweets as DMs urging you to check out a picture?

to post spotify playlists not sure how successful this is though since if you follow many people you can easily miss tweets

I really like Twitter as it doesn't require much time and is so 'on-the-pulse' for things like sporting and news events.

I'm @native12 and stuck on 99 followers if anyone wants to help me reach a century! Will return the favour...

I follow Twitter links from various sections of the Guardian and it points me to articles I usually enjoy reading online so I don't need to buy the paper itself. I also get links sent to me by friends to other articles in such as the New York Times or Economist. There are also a few celebs I like to follow to get their take on things - and of course there's the daddy of them all @prodnose. Some celebs over-tweet so eventually I get tired of them and unfollow. I've got a few mates I also follow but when they start tweeting about what they're having for lunch, they soon get unfollowed. You have to be brutal.

have shown the absolute worst of Twitter. Last week it became a constant barrage of tweeted and retweeted hysterical misinformation which at worst was downright dangerous and counter productive to Police operations, and at best was causing unnecessary panic and just added to the confusion and misery.

I've tried with Twitter twice now and I think that's put me off for good. I'll use it for my own mercenary promotional purposes and getting a message to someone I can't contact any other way, or finding out running times for gigs but I think I can live without an online rumour mill constantly churning away in my pocket.

I don't really care about being the first to know about the next tragic event. I don't give a flying fuck if I don't get "Breaking News" before 'The News' gets it. I'd rather get it second hand when someone else has had time to get the facts straight, and give it me in more than 140 characters.

as it organised people to help clean up the mess after the riots. The #cleanup hashtag led to a website that gave info on where help was needed. They had to upgrade servers when the demand carashed the system. It also helped spread good news stories, phots and the like.

You can also follow your local police to discover what is really going on at times like the riots.

at the weekend now cos its all football chat which is of no interest to me but that's fine. You don't have to read it all, just pick n choose.
Not every fleeting thought is a pearl

to take out the old twitter name as I've swapped everyone I was following on there over to the new one now.

Thanks for all your hints and tips - all really useful. The separate personal twitter account is working very well.

There are just a couple of people who haven't unfollowed me on my business twitter so I'm going to bite the bullet and unfollow them now - better I think to be completely separate. So apologies if I'm just about to offend anyone!