Small Farm Central

There has been a lot of buzz about the service / social media platform called Twitter. If that sounds like something a bird does, you may want to read this Twitter primer.

A twitter message is much shorter than blogging. They are really just fragments of a sentence along the lines of "this is what I am doing now." It has the advantage of being less time-consuming than blogging and it is easy for customers to follow the posts. This has become so much of a trend that professional athletes and other celebrities have Twitter accounts. Twitter has even led to mistrials because jurors were Twittering their thoughts.

I am not a Twitter user, but I caution you, this could become an addictive service! The farm Twitter accounts I looked had at least 3-4 posts per day. They are limited to 140 characters, so I suppose it is not a huge time sink. I would still urge caution!

A farm Twitter post might look like this: "Our dog has taken to eating chicken feed, right alongside the chickens. This is better than eating chickens but still not ideal. " -5:10 AM Apr 2nd

Farm Aid is twittering away and there are many farmers turning to the platform because it is such a low stress way and easy way to communicate. It is a completely different concept and takes a while to understand and appreciate what is going on with Twitter. Here are few farmers using Twitter: Frog Bottom Farms or Franciscan Family Family Farms (Grass-based Blogging in a Corn-based World).

Has anyone out there taken on Twitter? If so, send us your link.