How much Numismatic Tweeting™ am I missing out on by not subscribing? Should I?

Longacre

It seems that Numismatic Tweeting™ is all the rage on these boards. I am not sure how this works, but I assume that you create a Twitter account, and then subscribe to your Favorite Tweeter(s). Then when that person Tweets, I am assuming you get to see the message.

How much Numismatic Tweeting™ am I missing out on by not subscribing? Should I sign up for Twitter, or is it not worth it?

Can someone give me an example of a Tweet that was groundbreaking that I missed, and which could have provided useful information if I had allowed myself to be Tweeted by my preferred dealer?

RYK

I get a handful of numsimatic tweets daily. I tweeted an entire coin show report here in July, but that aside, most of my tweeting has been related to my favorite football team.

Coinosaurus

Jim Halperin has had some newsy tweets.

Another tweeter, who shall remain nameless, seems more interested in tweeting about the Steelers than steel cents.

RYK

Some dude was tweeting about a coin-related radio interview a while back.

I just checked my follow list, and there are at least a dozen coin folks on it. Sadly, they are not as prolific or interesting as Chad OchoCinco.

yellowkid

I don't even know what a Tweet is, I feel old....

RYK

IIRC, CRO had some amazing coin specials only offered on Twitter.

(RYK watches forum stampede to sign up for Twitter...)

Edit: Okay, there were no special deals from CRO, but there were some interesting tweets.

GoldenEyeNumismatics

Never tweeted, and probably never will. I have enough internet distractions...

RWB

There were a few "tweets," then a "chirp" or two, a muffled "gaack" and then a smiling cat. Pardon me, I must go. The dog is hungry.

ricko

I am signed up...about five or six months ago.... but find it kinda worthless... sorta like a soap opera gossip fest..... not really very interesting.... Cheers, RickO

Kdog08

farthing

If you know a persons twitter account name you can always read their tweets by going to www.twitter.com/id For example:

KentuckyJ

Mr. Longacre, you don't want to know what I'm doing. Boring boring boring. I was just about to tweet having seen my 1st 2009 Hybrid Cadillac Escalade but that vehicle sighting, of a few minutes ago, seems completely inconsequential compared to our Maserati Gran Turismo sighting tweeted on August 30th. I doubt anyone cares about what cars I see when but that's the way the game is played in twitterville. Numismatics are sometimes the topic but twitter is a full spectrum world. Really, where else can a Titans fan keep track of our September 10th competition?

RYK

Funny you should mention it today. I just received an excessively important tweet from a numismatic luminary about a collection being offered at auction starting today...

KentuckyJ

And, having recieved the same excessively important tweet, I can say with all sincerity I very much look forward to seeing their next new numismatic video, to be posted tomorrow. Ah, the joys of having inside info available via twitter, got to love it!

IGWT

It's great if you're a Steelers fan.

KentuckyJ

Oh, it's great even if you're not a Steelers fan