The Day of the first Tweet.

Every day when I speak to someone about writing, blogging, posting on Google+ or Facebook, I am asked if I also use Twitter. My answer has always been the same, " Sorry no, I can't say anything, and make sense out of it using 140 characters." I remember that my Oma always told me that Opa believed in telling life's stories to his grandchildren. How can you get the same effect or reaction by typing 140 characters? Yet, the question pops up daily like it is haunting me.
If there is one change I have made in my life is that I no longer listen to the radio stations that are driven by ads. I am a convert to NPR. Why the snickers? Why are the people walking away from me? I learn much from NPR and I learn without bias. One day this week, each day is like the next so I can't tell you for sure what day it was, NPR interviewed people who took to Twitter and created poems. They even read some. And they make sense. And they were beautiful.
So here I am on a different day with a different attitude. I'm here today to present to my friends, my fellow writers, our audience on SlushHeap my attempt to tweet to all of you. I have not mastered the specifics of the platform, but I have the idea or the jest of the messages. So below (if everything goes right) is my first attempt at a tweet.
Please let me know how I did. It is very important to me.

 

Thank you from the bottom of my heart.