Last week I went to a talk by Twitter Guru Mark Shaw www.markshaw.biz . Before I heard him speak I was convinced that Twitter was for sad people who had nothing better to do than tell the world what they had for lunch or were famous enough to expect people to actually care what they had for lunch.

But I rushed home afterwards, fired up the pc and got tweeting. Mark gave some very useful advice on how to Tweet, and more importantly how not to and apparently turning up is not enough, it’s all about being content driven and humanising the brand, which may seem a long way from what we as artists want to do. But as Mark says it is all about real people, talking about real stuff, right now – and telling a story – and that’s good enough for me.

I have lots of opinions and ideas and like talking about my work so being able to share them in a short sentence a few times a day seemed ideal, I view it as my mini-blog. And after a few days it is paying off, I already have Followers, and not all of them are my mates, one is even a rather fabulous and fashionable design shop in Shoreditch……….I’ll let you know if anything develops in a concrete way.

It’s really easy to join in, just go to Twitter.com and sign up. I’m there as @AlexandraArtist so give me a tweet when you arrive! I’ll also be interested to know what you all think about Twitter……….and if any of you are already tweeting.??