So the twitter account has been neglected since late last year.

I was for some reason following the philosophy that maximising the number of people I was following would result in reciprocation and everybody increases their follower count. Mutually beneficial arrangement right?

Theoretically, yes. Sadly, following people with wild abandon doesn’t actually garner you quality tweets to read. Surely this sounds like an obvious lesson but as with many of these type of situations, understanding only comes with actually experiencing it first hand. Gradually my tweet-stream (or whatever it’s called) became filled with affiliate marketing and “social media guru” noise. Of course, there are legitimate purveyors of this type of material on twitter but certainly the signal-to-noise ratio is not good. With so many variants and re-hashes of “Top 10 ways of being completely awesome in social media” posted, it becomes a uniform wall of garbage.

For a short while I actually considered just abandoning the whole thing, but after reading “Crush It!” by Gary Vaynerchuk and the enormous importance he places on his twitter account I decided to give it another shot. After roving around for a while, investigating what kind of designs and content people are pushing in 2010, I realised my twitter page was in desperate need of a facelift.

So, after a brief time passing montage and some very determined facial expressions I came up with a light, airy sort of a redesign of my twitter page. Behold – it’s greentastic:

Next steps: get a headshot of myself up there. It makes me more relatable, or so I’m told.