Most people still don’t understand why you’d use Twitter to increase traffic to your blog, site or business. They have an account but don’t really use it much.

Twitter can be daunting – a continuous stream of information, most of which seems irrelevant. But use it well it’s an excellent way to drive traffic and interest.

It’s important you’re as human as possible. Think about what you might like to read and don’t just paste links over and over.

Managing a huge list of people just on twitter.com becomes hardwork but there’s free software out there to help. I use tweetdeck but there are others around. You can download the software for your pc or mac here www.tweetdeck.com.

Tweet deck displays all your lists, feeds and tweets in place so you can easily deal with things. Plus you can schedule the tweets to roll-out over the day. We’ll discuss building lists in my next post.

I have never seen so many happy Dutch people as there were in the Dominion Theatre for this Saturday’s matinee of We Will Rock You.

A traumatising event on a number of levels. I’ll spare you most of the details however imagine being trapped in your worst nightmare for three hours. Then, add a blisteringly loud Queen soundtrack…you get the picture. The cringeworthy stor is set 300 years in the future on ‘Planet Moll’ (or Mall, I couldn’t be sure). Music is banned and everyone’s basically a generic clone. Say no more…if you’re still interested, go watch it, I don’t want to think about those 3 hours ever again.

The quality of singing was average and the only real benefit of going was the female dancers. The stage was rammed full of them, all dressed up in costumes from Agent Provocateur. Great.

Now, while this kind of show isn’t for me (in fact it was torturous), there was barely a seat free and it’s been going now for quite some time now. Certainly, the Dutch group of friends behind us were having a ball – singing along to all the songs out loud. Good for them!

There are so many different people out there, it’s amazing we ever meet anyone we get on with. But life is also about compromise. After all, my folks enjoyed it and I get on fine with them. And because of that, I really enjoyed it too.