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Yesterday, I found myself getting a steady stream of emails informing me that I had a new follower on Twitter. I checked a few profiles and it wasn’t spammers, but mostly folks in the SEO/SEM/webmaster industry. My guess was that people were picking up on where I work and following me because I might have something relevant to say.

Well, as it turns out, my profile, along with a few coworkers and other search engines’ employees, was written up in Search Engine Land. I’m completely comfortable with this, and the post itself was pretty darn useful, since I found a few relevant users to follow myself.

But, so far I’ve primarily used Twitter to post about my (not-so-exciting) personal life. I’m interested in seeing if the number of followers I recently received (around 75, nearly doubling my # of followers), will drop off precipitiously as I continue to tweet about eating, going to the gym, and share random pictures I take with my Android phone. Yet, I do think I’ll start to slowly work in some Google-related tweets, since I do come across some interesting stuff at work that might be worth sharing. So maybe I won’t lose all my new followers =)

The one concern I do have is that I’ll further muddle the distinction I try to make between my personal life and work. I find myself consistently thinking about my job outside of my working hours, which is a good and bad thing. I go through phases of this. I believe having a good work-life balance is important, so if twitter suddenly becomes a personal and work related endeavour, that’s one less space where the personal is supreme. 

My compromise, I think, will be to only tweet about work-related things during work hours, and have personal crap be fair game throughout. Super interesting, I know.