David Armano is asking whether corporate types could use Twitter. Of course they could. Anytime you have an audience corporate types will try to get their stuff in front of that audience. The thing is, if you do it in a way that pisses off your friends (who are really the ones who watch Twitter anyway) then you’ll get poked in the ribs at the next party.

I have 469 followers on Twitter. Very amazing service growth. Many of the world’s technologists are on it. Interestingly enough, the guy who started the company (Obvious) that made Twitter only has 578 followers.

Twitter is like the weird offspring that would happen if blogging mated with IM. It lets me write very short blog entries to my friends, letting them know what I’m doing. It’s addictive, especially when you get friends of your own, cause then you can follow them.

Anyway, I have a few problems with Twitter. First, I’d like to add all my followers to my list so I can follow their lives. Instead I have to add them one-by-one, which, makes my job 469 times more difficult. I can understand that they don’t want to see n*n growth, though. Makes scalability a much worse problem than it is.

On the Followers Page, I can’t see which ones I’ve already added as friends. It would be really neat to put a little icon next to each of my followers saying “add as friend.”

Also, I keep forgetting to use Twitter. I set it to automatically SMS me if I forget for 24 hours, but I’d like a toolbar app or something that lets me enter right from the desktop. I know some developers have been working on such Twitter apps, anyone know which one is the best? Since I use Mac and PCs now, which is the best on either platform?

Anyway, I find I keep coming back to Twitter. It’s an interesting way to keep in touch with the lives of your friends, or followers, as it were.

The BlogHaus is ready to rumble. We were up until 3 a.m. getting it ready. Lots of connectivity, big screens, PlayStation3’s, Xboxes, and other stuff. Oh, screw all that, it’s about the free food and drinks.

Anyway, it all starts tonight. We’ll be streaming Bill Gates keynote. But check in here later today for a few surprises. My video camera is gonna get onto some interesting stuff. Big hint: Frank Shaw came over last night while we were having dinner. There are two hints that you need to read between the lines in his post. Can you find them both?

Oh, and I find myself joining with Frank Shaw and agreeing with Nick Carr this morning. A year or so ago I wrote that it’s more important to get things fast than to get them completely right.

I was wrong. The rush to “instant journalism” isn’t a good one. It’s why I don’t even try to keep up with Mashable, TechCrunch, or GigaOm anymore. I’d rather be a few weeks late, with an insightful interview and a good look at the technology. That’s really why I do my linkblog so I feel less pressure to try to get on the “break it first” treadmill.

By the way, the really interesting CES stuff will come around Thursday. Why is that? Cause that’s when all the bloggers will get tired of covering the “big co’s news” (Microsoft announces a bunch of stuff tonight) and will move over to the Sands, where there are hundreds of companies trying to get attention. That’s where, last year we found the Celestron SkyScout. I’m most looking forward to seeing what is over there this year.

Another watermark will be Monday evening, when tons of small companies show their wares to journalists (and some bloggers did get press passes this year) at the Showstoppers expo. Unfortunately this is just for journalists and press, unless you registered for it early (like I did).

Anyway, more soon. Oh, and watch my Twitter account. I’ll try to post from the Seagate Limo where I’ll be next.

I also will try to keep up with my LinkBlog, no promises, though, my schedule is fully booked until Thursday and my first priority is getting video for PodTech (watch the home page).

UPDATE: Dave Winer got first videos of the BlogHaus, among other things. He hasn’t been to Vegas in 15 years, so it’ll be interesting to hear how this year’s CES compares to big shows of yesteryear.

Going to CES from Silicon Valley is a unique experience. Nearly the entire plane we’re on (we’re sitting on a plane in Orange County, CA) is geeks going to Las Vegas. The guy sitting next to me is an engineer for PortalPlayer (which just got bought by NVidia). They make chips for iPods and other MP3 players.

Anyway, I see Yuvi did even more analysis of my Link Blog. He made me laugh with this one: “Yes, the contents of the Scoble’s LinkBlog’s Links are more diverse than his Blog! Afterall, they are written by 483+ authors, rather than just one egoistical bastard who used the word I twice as much as the word you.”

Oh, and Yuvi, John Furrier is sitting next to me (PodTech’s CEO) and he sees you want a camera. Send him email and let’s work something out. john@podtech.net.

UPDATE: gotta run, but I see that Gizmodo snuck into the main hall and already got “first blood photos.”

One thing this CES is going to be known for is the Gizmodo vs. Engadget Breaking News War. I’m having lunch with both Gizmodo and Engadget’s top writers tomorrow (at the same time). THAT video should be interesting. I bet that between these two sites alone more than five million people will visit CES.

UPDATE 2: Just arrived in Vegas, onto Bellagio. Will use Twitter from now on to report location.

Marc Canter answered me back and said his new PeopleAggregator is “MySpace in a box.”

In my head I answered “why do I need that?”

Then it hit me. I’m not in high school anymore and I already have a blog and a video blog and a Twitter account which is the best social network I’ve ever seen.

That all said, though. I gotta go see Marc. Or, maybe I’ll just bribe Patrick to check it out and do a review since he’s soon gonna be 13 and gets all this cool new MySpace stuff better than I do.

One nice thing about having kids is they keep you up to date on the cool stuff.

Tomorrow we’ll be in the East Bay cause we’re interviewing Mary Hodder and getting a good look at Dabble. Cool media search and organization engine.

I’m staying home sick today. Not the only one. I couldn’t get to Twitter to report that (Twitter is the new way to call in sick, cause my coworkers and employees are on there). But, this is a good chance to try to catch up on email.

Hotmail’s connector to Outlook isn’t working, though. So, that’s forcing me to compare the Web interfaces of Hotmail to Gmail. Maybe there’s an interesting post to come out of that.

In the meantime, there’s a lot of good new blogs this morning on all sorts of geeky stuff. Again, I keep the noise down and the signal high (I only posted two posts on the Google API stuff, for instance, even though over on TechMeme there’s a lot more).

Stuff posted last night on ScobleShow? Sarah Blow gets interviewed by Maryam. She’s a real geek (is an embedded systems programmer and started Girl Geek Dinners, which are much cooler than my own dinners, I’ve gotta admit). I hate my laugh. I’ve gotta stop laughing so much, it really is annoying. So, here’s the deal. After January 1st everytime I laugh I’ll put $5 in a bucket for charity.

If you’re an entrepreneur and wondering what the basics of dealing with Venture Capitalists are, Philip Baddeley helps entrepreneurs in Cambridge, England, deal with getting funding. We have an interesting talk about VC 101.

Ken Thompson does the BioTeams blog and is an interesting guy (lives in Belfast, Northern Ireland). He studies animal behavior and sees what lessons he can apply to making teams more efficient.

Hope you are enjoying these videos from Europe. A few more are still to come.

I can’t wait to go to LIFT in February. Maryam and I are both going and probably will drop in on Frankfurt, Germany, to see my mom’s sister too so I can see another beer drinking tour with the geeks. Something about beer and geeks that always works.

Anyway, if you want me, use robert@podtech.net instead of my Hotmail address. Gmail is still working with Outlook. Anyone see the irony in that?

When PodTech made T-Shirts, I remember Maryam making sure that we had lots of smaller sizes. When we went to London she packed a bunch of these smaller sizes. And when we were at the London Girl Geek Dinner she handed them out and made sure the men didn’t get any. Hmmm, sounds like she’s following Kathy Sierra’s advice. Truth is, so many conferences only make XL sizes available. Marketers should read the comments on Kathy’s blog post. It’s right on, as usually Kathy’s advice is!

I just donated six bags of T-shirts (hundreds of shirts) to Goodwill. Which ones did I keep? The ones that look nice on me and/or have brand names that I like and are tastefully presented. My Firefox shirt, for instance, is a favorite (I wore it on the Google videos).

Anyway, that reminds me of another pet peeve.

Every interview I do I ask for stickers. Why? Here’s a picture of my tripod. I love marketing stickers. So do many people, based on the laptops I’ve been seeing lately show up to conferences. Check out this Flickr page for a bunch of good examples of stickered up laptops.

What advice do I have to get a sticker on my laptop and/or tripod?

Give me various sizes, particularly smaller ones. And if your logo is obscure, give me your URL too. Even better, make it two separate stickers so I can stick your URL over your logo. Jeff Sandquist sent me some Channel 9 stickers and they are simply too big. What happens with stickers that are too big? We cut them apart, which reduces their effectiveness. Heheh, I’m putting a Channel 9 guy on my new Mac, except it’ll just be a head.

Make something different and make it so that if you get a one on the back of a laptop and get it up on Flickr that you can actually see the logo.

Oh, and make sure your service rocks. I paste over stickers from services that don’t deliver the goods and/or that don’t remain cool.

For instance, I want a Twitter sticker. Why? Cause that’s cool. Linked In? Not cool.

Sam Sethi of TechCrunch UK has been fired, I learned. More details over on my link blog.

Yes, Twitter is now how you keep up to date on people’s lives.

Sam is VERY tied into the London entrepreneurial scene. I’m sure he’ll find a new job quickly. I liked Sam a lot.

I first learned of this over on Ben Metcalfe’s blog.

UPDATE: Mike Arrington gives his side of the story.

Ahh, lots of bloggers got invited to an all-expenses-paid shindig of some kind up at Microsoft. How do I know that? Cause Evan Williams posted such on his Twitter account.

Rael Dornfest, Mike Arrington, Molly Holtzschlag, are there, among others. Can we get a complete list?

By the way, our BlogHaus at CES will be open to ANY blogger, not just those “blessed” by Microsoft or some other company. You just need to have me put your name on the list so you can get up to our suite. My email is robertscoble@hotmail.com.

For those of you who can’t get an invite to stuff like this (me neither, so don’t worry) maybe you should watch JibJab’s Nuckin’ Futs video. Funny!

I’ve grown fond of Twitter. One thing it does is limit how much you can write on a post. That’s a real pain in the behind. At first. But it makes you communicate a lot in a short space.

Anyway, I’ve done my feeds. I’m 133 emails to go. And I gotta get out invites to the CES BlogHaus. More on that in a second.

It’s gonna be a late night.

Nice list over on Darren’s blog of signs you need a break from your blog. But I’ll add:

#9: you blog about blogging.
#10: you attack an A-lister by saying he’s an echo-chamber enabler and only writes to get on TechMeme.
#11: you say “TechCrunch this” and “TechCrunch that.”
#12: you go to Twitter and write “I’m blogging.”
#13: you tell your boss you aren’t merely reading blogs, you’re doing customer research.
#14: you have taken your son to so many blogger meetups that he starts his own blog to protest.
#15: you know the CPMs of a dozen other bloggers’ ads.
#16: when you say “Nick” “Om” “Mike” “Shelley” everyone around you knows who you are talking about.

Sam Sethi (of UK TechCrunch) had a breakfast last week in London. What did we all talk about? Twitter. Seems it was the topic of conversation on LunchMeet too!

My problem with Twitter? I keep forgetting to do it. Evan Williams, founder of the company that did Twitter, sent me email telling me that there’s a setting that’ll turn on a reminder. Oh, that’s what I need. More reminders that I’m behind. I just need to look at my inbox to remember that!

But, I do love Twitter for some reason. I can log in there and see what all my friends say they are doing.

UPDATE: Evan Williams, one of the co-founders of the company that made Blogger, is in this video.

Yes, I too have joined Twitter. I’m late to the cool kids party on Twitter. How do I know that? A ton of my friends are already in there. You too can see what I’m doing. Ahh, that’s too boring? Well, then, follow Evan Williams around. He’s the founder. Eddie Codel is on there too (he’s my employee, so I can track what he’s doing without calling him and bugging him, gotta get Irina on this). Of course, since we’re sitting at the same table right now, I don’t need to read his Twitter page to know what he’s doing.

Scott Beale says Twitter is being Scobleized.

Little game, who has the most Web 2.0 founders and/or CEOs on their Twitter membership accounts?

UPDATE: weirdly enough a few articles about Twitter just showed up on TechMeme.