The social medium can be treated as perpetual and personalized news based service about subjects of your choice – whether tech news, education, healthcare, or the recent episode of your favorite soap opera. Everything is literally filtered and then served to you by those who apparently care about what you like a lot.

That’s the beauty of Twitter and hence it is essential to get better at using it. Here are a few ways to make Twitter work for you and for those around you:

•    People who are having shared interests will become your chosen editor. Twitter turns into an alternative RSS feed. The key is to locate those people by conducting a search on Twitter directories, such as ‘Just Tweet It’ or ‘WeFollow’, and also by following individuals whom others mention or repeat.
•    Twitter is a fast-moving stream. So you might not want to follow each and everyone who is posting about your areas of interest. That’s one of the reasons why Twitter invented ‘Lists’ that simply anyone can opt to create. One could decide to separate celebrity users, tech pundits or food carts owners in a specific area, for instance, so as to receive an unadulterated news stream on only the particular topic they want information about, at that moment.
•    If you do not know who happen to be the best user/s on a favorite subject, look for Lists on sites such as Listorious or perhaps by checking profiles.
•    These days most conferences will carry a Twitter hashtag. For example, attendees of the exclusive TED conf. that took place in Long Beach, Calif. added #TED tag to the end of all their posts. People could get all the latest updates by searching #TED tag on Twitter (and manage to save on the hefty attendance fee).