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SALT LAKE CITY -- The social Web site Twitter could be a great way to connect with people important to you. But constantly tweeting online may upset the people who actually want to see you face to face. There are things you can do to keep constant "tweets" from ruining you love life
Over 14,000 people follow SocialToo.com CEO Jesse Stay on Twitter. If he were to tell all of the details of his personal life on the site, you could imagine how his wife would be unhappy. "My wife tells me when I can't use Twitter. When she's not in line with what you're doing, don't do it," he said.
As for those people who keep "tweeting" about how they really like their lunch, or that they're having a bad hair day, Stay says tools like TweetDeck can weed those people out from the people whose messages may actually be important."
He explained, "TweetDeck and tools like it will allow you to organize the people who are most important to you into a specific group, and you can just pay attention to those people."
Twitter also has tools that let you forward your direct messages into your e-mail, so you can spend some time with your loved ones and pick those up later.
