I have been seeing lately a lot of rules coming out about twitter. What not to do as a beginner and what to do. To me however I find those a bit useful and useless at the same time in the sense that yes there are tutorials to help but then in order for someone to be their true self on twitter they have to experiment. I never really read any beginners guides when I started twitter I just observed people. I followed some and noticed what was going on. Then the right people followed back and I learned. Then I felt more freedom to actually spread my wings and show my personality on Twitter. Not that I am discrediting anyone, but  I only started to read the tutorials this week when they started twitting a lot of them.

I am very observant and after having followed @cheth, @mayhemstudios, @dollar5, @phaoloo, @jessenewhart, @Minervity and a whole list of others I sort of learned from them. @cheth tweeted this to the the #1 rule of Twitter is that there is no rules. As we continue to twitter and more tweople begin to join, then more and more people are going to start complaining about what should be done and shouldn’t be done. After having experienced #followfriday and the excitment of meeting new people is fun. Hold on…twitter is not a race. I do not care who really follows or who doesn’t and if they like what am tweeting. I hardly tweet about brushing my teeth or combing my hair. I mostly do retweets that is why today I made a decision to finally cut the ties with Facebook and Twitter. To my friends on Facebook I apologize for all those strange updates.

To me twitter is not a place just to gain follows so you could show yourself to the world, but I see it as a tool where I get a vast amount of info that I would not otherwise get on my own. Me? Too much searching…I mean I love Google but I can only have this much of it. So with all of those tutorials I have special folders for MySql, Photoshop, Twitter, CSS and XHtml. With those tutorials and the help of someone I consider a good friend @jerlyn I was able to built my little techy website from scratch even through trials and errors I think I did well. I had a few tutorials to look at and boy they were helpful. I won’t forget the inspirational words that @holymully would tweet, and the encouragement about me being a good soul.

Now to touch base on a situation that happened today that really had me wondering. Why are people so quick to scream RT piracy? Not everyone is on the same list and at time some people do read the same RSS feeds, putting that Google Reader to work. For someone to call me out that I did not mention them in a Retweet when their name was nowhere near the tweet I felt like that person went out of their way. Twitter is a whole big world of info and there are times more than one person is going to tweet the same link. Maybe they should have a piracy service that will scan to see if it was already tweeted so that it will alert the tweeter. You know like Turnitin, we use that at Devry to detect plagiarism. I do take care of giving credit to whomever tweeted first so I am not really bothered.

What I get from tweeter is a vast amount of info, from those I follow, and I try to spread it. That is what Twitter is about. Sharing, and taking, and I give credit where credit is due. As @cheth said the #1 rule of Twitter is that there are no rules. We do however have to take others into consideration, because the tweople are humans. So guys read the tutorials but you could also learn hands on by observing the ones you follow. That could take you a long way in twitterdom

I have not been neglecting my blog lol…just working on another project one that is kicking my butt. Hey I know in the end that I will prevail yes and I will have more knowledge about something different. Especially with twitter…um…I admit I am a little bit addicted but heck everyone is too . That is my redemption that I have company too. Some who may not admit it and others who openly. So if you want to reach me try me checking twitter first @passionsista you might get a quicker answer. Now that is a shame haha.

So last week I finally got to see Slumdog Millionaire I have to say it was pretty good. Different is the key word. I loved how they actually made it look like everything that happened in his life lead him to win Who wants to be a millionaire. Sad to say that the story is true, there are children living like that, the only part is the ending is not so happy. It was just a great picture and deserved the awards they received. I love this song and it was on the soundtrack of Slumdog Millionaire.

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Now this week I took the time out again to go to the movies. I saw Watchmen, Medea goes to jail and Friday the 13th. I need to get this off my chest, if you are not into soft porn (not that I am) or you cannot handle seeing someone else genital then Watchmen is not for you. I saw so much of Dr.Manhattan’s penis than I can count. Don’t even talk about the  love scene with those two, it was too much detail and too long for my comfort. Overall the movie was awesome, I’ve never read any of the comics for Watchmen, but the storyline was great, I had me waiting to see who was the killer of The Comedian.

Tyler Perry’s Medea goes to jail, as his other movies based on the show I loved it. Those the play was better. The movie however was more of a comedy mixed with messages. It had a lot of meaning even though Medea the outlaw did many things to make us laugh I believe the true lesson there was about Candace and how her life could be turned around from prostitution and living in the streets. That lawyer Linda wow I have to shake my head because there are really lawyers who do that, awful people.

As for the Friday the 13th movie haha I am embarrassed to say that I smho (screamed my head off). I regretted going to see it by myself. Wait I am not really scared of movies its just that I hardly see them on the big screen and seeing Jason popping out of nowhere gave me the sensation that he was coming after me. Haha great movie though.

So well last week was awesome. I am hoping to be much more productive *cough* if I am not on twitter that is and who can say that I won’t be. As it is not a competition I am really not bothered by how many follow me, I am just amazed at the number of friends I have come across, who are geeky as I am. So twitter is not all that bad (my justification). Later I hope to make a video on the phone tonight telling you about the features and things I have come to like about it. By the way I am used to the typing on screen, maybe a little flawed but I do type faster.

Oh and I did not forget International Women’s Day. I remembered my mom and aunt. The strong and powerful women in my life. They are the ones who molded me into the woman well some of  the concepts that I have. The other things mainly me. So Happy International Women’s Day!!!!