So, I decided to sit down and write a few of them up.  If you have any suggestions on how to update this one, please leave a comment on the bottom.

So here goes……

The Ten Twittermandments

1. Thou shall NOT covet any @name that’s NOT their Own!!!!
2. Thou shall NOT tweet SPAM
3. Honor thy followers and followings
4. Thou shall retweet anything worthwhile giving credit to the original tweeter
5. Thou shall not mislead others by following them then unfollowing when they follow you
6. Thou shall tweet as much interesting information that they can in 140 characters
7. Thou shall not attempt to use several tweets to get their thought across
8. Thou shall only tweet for good
9. Thou shall not steal other people’s tweets
10. Thou shall cherish the Word of the Tweet

Some time ago I got a tweet from one of the people I follow telling me about a missing child, with a link with more info.  I, of course, tweeted it myself to help get the word out.

I thought that is was a great idea that Twitter can actually serve a purpose.  It can be used for something besides just micro-blogging what people are doing.

I was listening to a podcast and found out that there is an Amber Alert page on Twitter.  What a superb idea.  The only thing is that there are only a few hundred people signed up with it.  If you have a Twitter account, please visit http://twitter.com/amberalert and follow them.  So, anytime that this page posts a tweet, everyone who follows it can re-tweet it themselves and spread the word. 

The Internet is becoming the standard way of communicating.  People don’t watch television as much anymore, and the newspaper isn’t as up-to-date as the web, so this is the best way to get the word out on importants matters like a missing child.

I’m hoping that this is the beginning of something big for Twitter.  It’s great to see people thinking of different ways to use websites out there.  I’m hoping that Twitter will take this Amber Alert concept and go with it and come up with other great ideas to use their site.

I think that it’s great that a celebrity wants to use something like Twitter to keep her fans in touch with what she’s doing, but this isn’t the way to do it.

First off, at least some of the tweets are posted by someone else (and state it).  At least you know that Britney isn’t really putting them out.  I like the honestly, that’s a plus.

The downside is that if you look at the tweets they have no personal feel to them.  Ever post feels like a little advertisement for Britney.  Twitter is designed to be from your point of view.  It’s suppose to your thoughts, feelings, views, opinions, and whatnot.  It’s designed to be little droplets of you.

If this was 10 years ago, Britney would bring a HUGE following to Twitter, but not so much now.  She might be the first celebrity that can help bring Twitter into the mainstream though.

Honestly, I would rather following some “no name” person on Twitter who has great tweets instead of a celebrity just trying to sell a few albums.

(Author’s note: you can follow me at http://twitter.com/CoreyCharette)