Domain Name TWEETED.COM has just been listed on Flippa.com.

This is the first time I have used the Flippa service so we’ll see how it goes.

Yes, it does have a reserve (that will not be revealed).

If you view Tweeted.com in its present state, you will see the basic framework of a site that I am working on with a developer.

This is one name that will be difficult to part with and I would be proud to follow through with my site’s plan for usage.

Shout out to twitter.com/microblogging (microblogging.com) for bringing these thoughts to my attention last night.

When Twitter users put up a banner or post Follow Me, there is unprecedented power in those words.

We are witnessing a revolution on many fronts right before our eyes. A revolution of a nation, of people and of the mystique of microblogging – limiting to 140 characters.

This is not the first time it Twitter and microblogging have been at the forefront of news. Such means of communications were utilized to report an imprisionment and subsequent release in Egypt, an earthquake in China, a jet liner landing on the Hudson River, and now potentially the second Iranian revolution that many of us have witnessed.

Events in Iran started to unfold and the seams of iron fisted control began days ago when the election results were announced within a couple of hours. The fraud charges against Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his main political party were almost immediate. How was it possible to declare a winner within hours of polls closing when tens of millions of ballots had been cast, sealed, and required hand counting? It is not possible.

When the protests began, main media coverage was present beaming signals and images to us. Even with a government order banning these demonstrations did not dispel the crowds. Police with batons racing through the crowd on motorcyles did nothing to break up days of protests.

Then the Iranian government pulled the plug on internet access and feeds. One thing they could not control nor confinscate was the tens of millions of mobile phones capable of passing on live images from the scene and live 140 character tweets from the throngs of users.

Twitter is indeed at the head of the pack in this revolution. Microblogging has come of age. Microblogging has become a tool that may just be the catalyst in over throughing a corrupt, defiant, and dangerous regime.

The Twitter thing, as mentioned, was brought to my attention last night. A friend who runs Microblogging.com sent a link that was quite amazing.

There was a scheduled Twitter mantainance that would have taken Twitter off-line for one hour. Hundreds of thousands (perhaps millions) of twitter users PLEADED for Twitter not to do this as Twitter was now the only true and viable means of getting overnight news out to the world from Tehran.

And Twitter obliged the cries of holding off.

Twitter and Iran stayed connected to the world.

President Barack Obama knows the power of Twitter and microblogging. So do his followers. As well as his staff.

And now I see an unusual headline:

US State Department Working With Twitter to Keep Service Up for Iranians

Elise Labott of CNN reports: “The halls of Foggy Bottom are ringing with the Tweets coming with Iran and the State Department is working to ensure they keep coming. Senior officials say the State Department is working with Twitter and other social networking sites to ensure Iranians are able to continue to communicate to each other and the outside world.”

Read full story: CNN

Laying before us is a revolution in the making of a goverment and of mobile wireless communication.

For the State Department to step in a supporting role to keep Twitter on line is revolutionary in itself. To me it is a green light giving the “go ahead” to topple the government of a regime that is not only anti-American and Israel. It is a regime that is so anti-anyone who does not think and speak using the party tone. This is truly an unprecedented manner in which the US Government supports the ousting of another government by supporting the opposition’s use of Twitter, social networking, microblogging, mobile and wireless media.

It was a few months ago when I read an established blogger stating that the mobile internet does not exist, the internet is one, and it was of no value except to those promoting it. Read that statement again.

mobile internet does not exit, there is only one internet, and it is of no value except to those promoting it.

This is paraphrased and suffer with me as I will not make a public spectacle of the person who blogged this. Suffice to  say, she has a tough go from “those that supported” the mobile internet.

It was only perhaps a month or so ago I made a pitch to a health care provider, now the fifth largest hospital chain in the USA, that they should be using Twitter to gather real time feedback from users of its facilities and to respond in real time to concerns and complaints. One person armed with the directory to each Risk Management and Customer Service personnel could immediately post the person to contact regarding the issue. REAL customer service in REAL TIME.

The Asst. Director of Marketing emailed back that the matter was discussed with his superior and they were not interested.

It wasn’t that they were not interested in my proposal.

There were not interested in Twitter at all. They saw no value to marketing via social networking. There was no perceived need to utilize Twitter as an external measure of customer satisfaction. There was no use for a microblogging service to exist in their handling of internal and external issues in real time as they arise.

Imagine as a customer you tweet about the un-necessary wait in the ER to be seen. A person responds back not only with a supporting tweet but within minutes a real live person from customer service is standing in front of them wanting to make their waiting more comfortable.

As an employee nurse, you are concerned about staffing issues and the nurse to patient ratios. You tweet about how you are incapable of giving the proper attention to the patients. No one cares. Yet you just tweeted this message to the entire world! Then comes a starnge tweet: it is a message to call an internal number. You call and a person in the Nursing Administration inquires what the issue is, where is the shortage, and replies “help is on the way.”

Imagine a new way of business.

Imagine a new way of customer service.

Imagine a new way of employee satisfaction and retention.

There is no imagination necessary as all these wonderful tools exists and are being utilized as I type this.

Imagine 140 characters texting their way to a Revolution.

Imagine the revolutionary changes these tools can make in your business.

In your life.

The name of the game is Quality vs. Quantity.

Once we get that junk out of the domain portfolio we finally get down to the quality gems.

I have quickly noticed that this same principal needs to be applied to Twitter.

Make no mistake about it; Twitter is a powerful tool. It is an exceptional tool for making new contacts, learning, and news.

I have seen sites on the internet and people touting their method of success to get 15,000, 25,000, 40,000 followers on twitter. The process usually involves following someone and they reciprocate back by following you.

That is the quantity side of things.

To prove the point of how popular this tool is, late night TV host Jimmy Fallon had an audience member reveal his Twitter user name on air and the number of followers (7). Jimmy requested every one in the studio and TV audience follow this guy.

This kid went from 7 followers to almost 43,000 in less than 2 hours.

What about doing business on Twitter? What would it be like to follow 42,000 people? What if all the people you were following were posting on Twitter? Or even half or a quarter were to post? What if you had to scroll though 42,000, 21,000, 10,000, 5,000 or even 500 tweets to find an answer to a question you posed an hour ago.

If you want to use Twitter as a popularity ranking tool that is perfectly fine and perhaps enjoyable for many people.

Honestly, I have no intention of using twitter as a Mr. Popular barometer. I perceive my time on twitter as an opportunity to create and educate. That works both ways for me. I can either learn new creative skills and tips as I learn WordPress. Or I can offer my creative skills or knowledge of advertising. I want to be able to offer relevant content (quality) over simply tweeting every blessed thing I do (quantity). I am convinced that there is not a living soul out there in twitterverse that really cares about all the nuances of my day or a minute-by-minute play of what I am doing. This may come as a shock to many, but I really do not care about you standing at the gas pump filling up your car.

As a courtesy, I have responded to the notice of someone following me by following them back. Oh, brother…what some mistakes those have been. I hate to do it but I am going to have to unfollow (remove) myself from some of my own followers. To illustrate this point, I am on a couple other twitter accounts involving other interests and professions. Honestly, one girl posted 28 tweets in an hour. None were directed at anyone, none were of any import, and all were seemingly space filler. It was as if she enjoyed seeing her own words. And if that was not harmless enough, she DM’d me to ask a question. I honestly thought I was inside the mind of a bi-polar person and it was evident.

I do not want twitter to be like many of the forums that have lost the focus of what the forum was for. Nor do I want my Twitter account to end up being someone’s personal chat room. I want my Twitter time to be quality Twitter time. I want quality in who I follow for their content. It is not important if they follow me back. I want to seek out those that are leaders in their field, specialty, occupation, and opinions. That is what following is all about. I want read and post tweets that are enjoyable to read.

I appreciate every individual person or entity that follows me.

Honestly, there are not 42,000 people alive that I am interested in following.

And I am not going to follow 42,000 twits so I can brag about having 39,000 followers.

I read somewhere about these bragging rights and this was a popularity contest. The answer about having to deal with thousands of tweets on their page was to ignore them.

If I have to ignore my followers and those I follow, then I’ll just ignore Twitter.