Twitter: @Alex_Washington

When I first got into Twitter, people took it as a joke or phase. They told me Twitter wasn't going to last long and naturally they thought it was stupid. Now, Twitter is one of the fastest growing social networks and I owe a lot to it. Not only have I managed to get my blog the hits that it has, I found out about (and received) two job opportunities —both writing of course— through Twitter. Recently I got my 1,000th follower which to me is kind of cool because odds are more people will visit my blog/story links when I post them. People found out about my page through word of mouth, now when I go to local events a lot of times I'm asked: "Hey don't I know you from Twitter?"