Linden's Pensieve

Thanks for clicking on the URL in my Twitter profile! If you are trying to decide whether to follow me or not, you’ve come to the right place: I created this page so that I could tell you more about myself than my Twitter profile allows.

About @xgravity23… in slightly more than 140 Characters

My name is Linden A. Mueller and I am an ESL instructor at a German university. Originally from Missouri, I find this overseas adventure quite exhilarating, and I like to blog about life in Germany.

I have quite a few hobbies, ranging from the physical (running) to the mental (reading, writing, HTML/CSSing, improving) to the non-physical, non-mental (crocheting) and several activities somewhere in between (photography, trying to crack the 2×2x2 Rubik’s cube).

You can find out a little more about me on the About Linden page.

How @xgravity23 Uses Twitter

Now for my Twitter usage. According to @MrTweet, I average 9.4 tweets a day. I use @HootSuite to send RSS feeds for my main blog, my photoblog, my happiness blog, and my iPhone App blog to Twitter, and if you’re wondering how often you’ll have to see those posts, I usually post a total of 12 posts a week in busy times and 4 posts a week in slower times. I love retweeting interesting posts and replying, but I know that can get cumbersome, so I try not to overdo it.

I like to interact with the people I’m following and I want to get value from the raging river of Twitter, so I don’t automatically follow back in order to keep my follower list manageable. I tend to follow interesting, engaging tweeters who aren’t spammy with retweets, @ replies, and links (self-promoting or not); I want to read original content from the people I’m following! If you’d really like to me to follow you back, just send me an @ reply or an email (lam-at-lindenamueller-dot-com).

Since you got here from Twitter, you might be interested in these posts:

• True Beginner’s Guide to Twitter Series: Basic Twitter Functions; Advanced Twitter Functions; Twitter On the Web, At Your Desk, On the Go; and Other Twitter Tools and Resources (a collaborative project with @sarahjoaustin)
• Trying to Figure Out Twitter? Try Our Free eBook! (the free eBook is a compliation of the True Beginner’s Guide to Twitter series)
• Twitter Guest Post on A Fool of Myself
• Hone Your Writing/Editing Skills: Another Reason to Give Twitter a Try
• Twitter in the News: The Gettysburg Address, Twitpitches, and Twitstories

Want to create your own Twitter landing page? I was inspired by Problogger’s post and @rosso’s post on Twitip.