Twitter

I have always been late onto bandwagons. It's a tradition with me. So I am proud to say that I have - finally - joined twitter.

I'm a newbie, and I'm only following twenty odd people, but already I have some questions regarding the structure of the feed flow.

I may be missing something, but is there a way to categorise feeds? If not, why not?

My feed contains mostly elearning types. It also contains Stephen Fry. Why? Becuase I love him. Also, he's the second most followed person after Barack Obama, and who am I to doubt the wisdom of the crowd?

Now I like face-to-face collaboration as much as online, and I'm looking forward to sharing my feed with colleagues. I plan to actually show them, i.e. with two of us looking at the same screen and clicking things. But do they need to know I follow Stephen Fry? Especially when he's not always temperate in his tweets? Also - what if I was following my actual friends? (They're not on the site yet, but they might be eventually.) I wouldn't want them all mixed up in conference announcements.

On the other hand, maybe I would. What a lovely melange, to have real life and work life in the same bubbly pot. But it would stop me sharing - at least with my colleagues - and isn't sharing the point of twitter? 

How strange, that a service that is only about sharing could, through it's own structure, stop me from sharing. 

I'm going to investigate twitter clients now - maybe I'll find a solution there.