Over the past couple of days I have been having trouble with Twitter to the extent that I am actually “locked out”. I was using Tweetdeck successfully until yesterday too but now that no longer wants to play along. Apart from the time it has taken up trying to sort it has shown me how much I rely on Twitter for my day to day communication.

But it has shown me something else too.

As I tweeted about the issues, my frustrations, asked for help …I got lots of offers of help - from people I knew and many I had not met yet.

This is the benefit of social networking. Hard to quantify but real when it works like this.

As I write this the Twitter situation is still not resolved but I felt it was the right time to say  to those who have offered help/advice/suggestions.

thank you !