Steven Robbins here. Welcome to the Get It Done Guys quick and dirty tips to work less and do more.

Kent wrote in asking whether Twitter is a productivity tool. Would you please do a future podcast

on the effective and efficient use of Twitter? I've been under the impression that Twitter is just a time

wasteer. However, after learning that you are on Twitter, I realize that I must be missing something.

The quick and dirty tip is to follow people with content you want, and to do outbound tweeting

only if you know why you're doing it.

I am Get It Done Guy on Twitter, but just because I tweet doesn't mean you should.

Given all the Twitter hype, let me share my Twitter experience.

From the media hype, you'd think broadcasting on Twitter is like being Mick Jagger, Madonna, or Britney Spears in concert,

only without the lips, the pointy bras, or the nervous breakdowns, respectively.

You compose your 140-character literary masterpiece, tweet it out, and your hordes of followers, who do nothing

with their lives except wait to hear your words of wisdom, eagerly devour every bit, pun intentional.

The reality is a bit less sexy. It's kind of like writing on the world's biggest bathroom wall,

only one that anyone can read, even your parents. If that isn't terrifying enough, your tweets

stick around forever so that one-time drunken indiscretion, well, let's just say what happens in

Vegas stays in your Twitter update stream forever unless you remember to delete it by hand.

And given the circumstances, you probably won't remember to delete it. When you follow a Twitterer,

you see their updates on your Twitter homepage, or you get the updates as text messages on your cell phone.

I started for the friends. I followed my friends, and they followed back. Joel would tweet,

Sipping Moka Grande while waiting in line to see Snow White in the seven vertically challenged laborers.

I'd seen it the week before, so I called, and we had a great conversation. With Twitter, you get a glimpse into people's lives. If you've ever

lived in a dorm or fraternity, you'll know the feeling. For example, you'll know Bernice

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