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I am on Twitter: @kevinashworth. I joined Twitter long before moving to Los Angeles, long before it occurred to me that I could follow LA people in The Biz on Twitter. I joined in large part because I used to work with @livia, who is married to @biz, the founder of Twitter, and I went to a party at their apartment in Wellesley before they moved to California. Good people. So. I joined 546 days ago, according to whendidyoujointwitter.com. In comparison, the Twitterers I reference below all have under 150 days on the service. Not that length of time using Twitter matters much.

Anyway, over the last couple of months, lots of industry people have started Tweeting all the time. And it’s useful information for people new to LA. So I follow. But it’s dangerous. I think I have mis-Tweeted, and I think I crossed the personal-business divide. Damn, and damn. But I’m not the only one who is confused! Consider two Tweets from today:

@DanielleCasting: crashing an audition is possibly the worst thing you can do to yourself.. even if your agent tells you to give it a try..don’t do it!!!

@TalentAgentLA: RT @agentCESD So many actors have a magical best friend who is “slightly less attractive” but “gets out more than I do.” Voila, a crash!

Two talent agents encourage actors to crash auditions, but one casting director says never do it, no matter the aforementioned encouragement from your agent. Talk about confusing! Who are you going to believe? The answer might be this: Don’t crash Danielle’s auditions, and crash other auditions very selectively. But it can be confusing, this Twitterverse of ours. Next step for me is not to crash selectively, but to try to make amends for crossing the personal-business divide. Hmm. Tweet me your best ideas!