“Twitter” popped up on my radar today as I was thinking of how to best keep in contact with project teams or work groups.

I first noticed the Twitter feed button showing up on my favorite blogs about year ago, but I had no interest in just adding another colorful feed icon onto my own site. Twitter admits “it sounds ridiculous and stupid when you first hear about it” but it is, nevertheless, simple to set up and kind of addictive once you get going with it. If I’m working on a Web project involving a design team spread out across town, country or continent, I sometimes need a little nudge of motivation to keep me focused or to remove a creative blockage. Twitter allows my team to follow my creative process when I turn on the “follow me” features.

It does cause you to question why anyone would want people following their every thought, feeling, or disappointment, but you can just as easily extend the concept to some practical purposes for work or business.