Talking Traffic

I have found that the majority of the items I want to put up on the blog here, rather than the podcast, end up being eminently Twitterable. Thusly, I’ve decided that Talking Traffic needs a twitter feed! This serves the purpose of letting me tell you about fast turnaround items that aren’t really appropriate for the nature of the podcast.

If you’ve only heard about Twitter and never used it, or are possibly confused about it’s purpose or utility, fear not! Twitter is what you make of it. It is a service that allows people to post updates or information 140 characters at a time. Think of it as Facebook or Blogging in an extremely abbreviated form.

So if you want to get quick, late-breaking updates on transportation and traffic related items, go sign up for a twitter account and follow Talking Traffic.

I’m going to ask this question in the next podcast also:

“Would you, the reader/listener, find a twitter feed dedicated strictly to Talking Traffic to be useful?”

I’ve found recently that there’s been a lot of items that could have been efficiently posted via Twitter regarding news stories or interesting things highway-related. These are things that don’t lend themselves well to the Podcast and I may not have the time to do a proper blog posting about them.

I could, of course, put them up on my personal Twitter account (and I have), but that stream is filled with all sorts of random garbage that you’ll probably not be interested in if you don’t know me personally.

Thoughts?