I've thought about it, but not sure for me at this point (performer and teacher of workshops, so not looking for regular students) it would balance out with the thought of having yet ANOTHER networking site.
It SOUNDS like a great resource to find students! Keep us posted on your experiences, please.
I also wonder- as it's mostly students- if it would be a worthwhile pursuit for our event organizers. *waggling eyebrows at the other Samira*

Yes, I am also curious about how this can help with promo-stuff. Admittedly, I just set up a page, but have yet to be wowed about it. :)

I haven't looked for this subject yet, but you do a twitter search for #bellydancer, #bellydance, #raqssharqi, etc. you hopefully will find some? The # is used by a lot of twitterites when they're tweeting on a particular subject. Mr. Tweet suggests twitterers to follow: twitter.com/MrTweet I haven't used that one, so I don't know how well it works if you're looking for something specific.

good luck! ^_^

Yeah, that question of "Okay, now that I'm here, now what?" is The Big Question, isn't it? <smile>

I kind of separate this into two sub-questions: 1) How do I find people whose tweets I want to follow? and 2) How do I attract people to follow my tweets?

Here are some ways to find out who else is on twitter that you might want to follow:

1. Click on my icon and you'll be taken to my profile. Off to the right you'll see tiny icons of the faces of the people I'm following. If you wave your mouse (without clicking) over one of those faces, you'll be told who it is. So, by looking to see who other dancers are following, you'll find out who else is on twitter and you can sign up to follow the ones who interest you. For example, I just looked at Mahsati's profile (she's one of the people I follow), and I see that she is following Neon, Sarah Skinner, and some other dancers.

2. In the top right corner of twitter, you'll find a choice that says "Find People". If you pick that, you can search by person's name. That's how you'd look for someone that you believe might already be on twitter if you don't know what their twitter ID is.

3. At the bottom of the twitter home page, you'll find a choice that says "Search". That will search the text of what people are saying in their tweets. When I first joined twitter, I searched it for "belly dance" and found a lot of tweets by beginning students saying, "I'm off to attend my belly dance class now...." Those generally turned out to be people I didn't feel like following because their belly dance related tweets were choked by lots of daily-life tweets - complaints about jobs, comments about boyfriends, etc.

4. Participate in threads like this one and its counterpart on bhuz. Several people have posted their twitter names on this thread, so you can visit their profiles, see what they have been tweeting about, and then decide if you want to follow them. You can also use the technique in #1 above to see who else the people who posted on this thread are following.

Ah, thanks for posting this! I just added myself.

I just followed everyone who posted their addy on this list (@JennCuller), so that I have something other than work articles and newsfeeds to read! ;-)