I probably tweet too much. It’s been another year of me being on Twitter, terrorizing teh internetz, and this is what I have to show for it.

Just because someone has a disability of some kind doesn’t mean they aren’t using the web, and just because someone’s using the web doesn’t mean they don’t have some kind of need that would benefit from even basic accessibility practices. The following is a short list of references collected via Twitter in response to @drinkerthinker’s request for non-tech-savvy resources.

This morning, the Twitter account of one Mark Davidson started getting lots of attention. Supposedly, Mr. Davidson employs several ghostwriters to manage his social media presence (rather than doing it himself), and then fired one of them. The apparently newly unemployed individual then proceed to post several “drunk and angry” tweets explaining how the good Mr. Davidson can “barely type social media much less know what it is.”

Today I tweeted about goats, biking, Netflix, Words with Friends, God, Wall Street, and floppy disks. Not one mention of what I had for lunch. And yet people outside of Twitter think that’s all we talk about.

That there are people in this world whose job title is “social media consultant” makes me a sad panda. It’s the job of these people to tell other people how to use social media. You don’t need a consultant. You just need to be social.

Jim Raffel has a great post today about his rules of thumb on whether or not he chooses to follow someone on a social media network like Twitter or Facebook. I completely agree with his sentiment, and felt it was worth posting my own general rules of engagement.

In the world of social media, you feel a need to be posting often. *Really* often. Depending on who you’re following and when you check in, your activity stream can move very quickly. You toss something of your own in, and it’s already been washed downstream in the blink of an eye. But you’re so damn clever/inspiring/knowledgeable/informed! People want to read your every joke/quote/link! However can I make sure they don’t miss out? Obviously the solution is to just post more often. Fight the flood with a flood of your own, right? Wrong.

As far as I can tell, my first post to Twitter under my @tomhenrich account was one year ago today – April 22nd, 2010. From what I can tell from various online tools, I created the account in early-ish 2008 but didn’t post much of anything. I’m also not sure that my first actual tweet was on April 22nd, since I’d modified the name from “thenrich” to “tomhenrich” at some point and Twitter’s search fails to discover anything past that point. So thus was born my @tomhenrich account. On this, the apparent one-year anniversary of that account, I thought it’d be interesting to look at how the year’s gone by.

A tweet of mine got some serious attention yesterday. It was posted totally on a whim; I expected maybe a handful of people to star or retweet it. Instead it took off and got massive visibility. As of the time of this writing it had been retweeted 1231 times using Twitter’s native retweet function and – according to a quick search via the Twitter API – over 600 times by people copying and pasting it, retweeting others who had commented, etc.

Computers have gotten simpler and more intuitive every year for the last couple decades, to the point that most of us carry in our pockets a tiny little computer that can make phone calls. Why is “I’m not a computer-type person” still being used as an excuse?

Introducing the Twitter Bio Generator from @joshjs.