From experience, we know that the worlds of compliance and high-tech usually collide at the corner of I-Don't-Get-How-This-Works Avenue and How-The-Hell-Am-I-Going-To-Monitor-This Boulevard.
So we decided to see what all the fuss was about and get a Twitter account for the Pac-10 Compliance Corner.
Though Twitter can be a lot of things to a lot of people, in brief, Twitter is a way to answer the question: "What Are You Doing?". You post a message (called a tweet) and people who have chosen to follow you see it. In that regard, it's no different than posting something on a website or updating your status on your Facebook wall.
Twitter has some instant-messaging like features (which give compliance folks heartburn), but we're not going to get into those at the moment. We'll have more to say on all this soon.
For now, you can join in the fun by:
(1) Signing up and
(2) Following us. We're known as Pac10Compliance. Just click the Follow button on the page that appears once you've signed up.
The easiest way to keep track of All Things Twitter is with a dedicated application on your computer. That way, you're not running back to your Twitter home page to check for updates, an enormous time suck.
You can Google for various applications that do this. On the Mac, we use Twitteriffic from IconFactory, which, not so coincidentally, has an iPhone version as well. Both are free (with ads) and you can pay for an ad-free version.