I don’t Twitter, but this is still cool.  I think I posted a link to it many weeks ago.  Unfortunately, edublogs is still keeping me from embedding this widget, so you’ll have to visit the page:

http://www.snoopdogg.com/extras/default.aspx/mid/3872

To try it out, you have to know someone’s twitter name; then click on “shizzle your friends’ tweets”. 

For example,   - Paul and Storm’s twittername = paulandstorm

Jonathan Coulton’s = jonathancoulton

 If you’re a rising star, you should think about Twitter because it’s another “buzzing” line of communication between you and your fans.  Widgets posted to your webpage can display “Tweets” and you can keep your fans entertained 24/7.  Is it a fad?  Probably, but like my old boss used to say:  “never be the first to discard the old or the last to pick up the new.” 

When you’re building bridges, tools can come in quite handy.  And any artist that can sell product AND create the “culture/community” among fans that Snoop (and NIN and Radiohead, etc, etc…) should have an honorary MBA on their wall.

Where do you want to be in 5 years?  10 years?  Will you be a one-hit-wonder or a cultural icon?
 
“–Ay, there’s the rub! 
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come,
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
Must give us pause.”