Stephen Fry Highlights the Human Element in Twitter on “The Infinite Monkey Cage”

I joined Twitter in November 2008 to seek out tweets about the Mumbai terror attacks. I found some, but I didn’t really get the point of the service, and my account lay fallow until last year, when I noticed incoming links to this blog from Twitter. And then I started to get it more and more. I guess my main goal for using Twitter is 1) to promote what I write on this blog, 2) network with other translators and 3) keep up with interesting non-translators. There is a lot of advice now about being professional on Twitter and using it to get clients. I confess I haven’t found a single client using Twitter, although some professional contacts have been made. My approach to Twitter is half professional and half social: I don’t expect to find clients, but if any eventually happen to come along that way, so much the better. It is a way for me of being open to positive black swans, as Nassim Nicholas Taleb would recommend.