so after some thinking, i’ve come up with (what i think is) a pretty decent idea for this post.

i’ve been using twitter for the past 6 months or so, have 383 (and counting) followers, and follow 524 people.  i have updated 1,539 times.  i’m currently ranked 24,545 out of 1,095,823 people on twitter, and have a score of 97.2 out of 100.
i’m going to be honest, here, before twitter i had no idea who @chrisbrogan was, or@guykawasaki or @jowyang.  i didn’t find them in the blogosphere and then on twitter, it was the other way around.

i think it’s pretty cool that i’ve not only learned so much, but attracted a fairly decent number of followers simply by being myself.  i don’t use any third party anything (except twitterberry, so i can tweet on-the-go) – wouldn’t dare use magpie, tried twhirl, hated it… haven’t bothered withtweetdeck, and have never used an auto-follow or unfollow tool, or anything to auto DM my followers.

everything my followers get from @woley is 100% me.

as trivial as it may seem, i’m quite proud of that.  i’m glad i can say that i’ve never used my account to advertise (don’t even get me started on magpie), i’ve never spammed my followers, and every single DM or tweet i’ve ever posted has been sincere… none of this “thanks for following me, nominate me for x-y-z whatever award” crap.

i’ve built a legitimate social sphere from the ground up, from scratch, from not knowing a thing about twitter, and look at me now!  i blog, i tweet, and if i didn’t have twitterberry on my blackberry i might just wither away.

anyway.  i just thought it was pretty cool that i discovered all the ‘big names’ in social media by myself, by simply stumbling across them and following because i found them interesting – not because i knew they were ‘famous’ in the blogosphere.

either i have really good luck, or i’m really ridiculously smart and awesome.  i’d venture to say that it’s the latter.