Heh. I saw that story earlier.

Twitter certainly appears to be all about hype with little substance. It'll all be over by the summer, with something else rising to take its place.

I'm thinking about a service called Idioter, where you can send yourself 'dolts' which are limited to 12 characters.
It'll be great.

Twitter is pretty pathetic and very self-indulgent, but it isn't blocked at work and allows me to update my facebook status, should I feel the need to (facebook is blocked unfortunately), so it has a use.

As I'm making tentative preparations to stand as an independent candidate at the next general election, I find I may have to acquaint myself with being a twit after all.

I did consider signing up a while back, and just posting about how bored I was all the time.

"What are you doing now?"
"Twittering boring things. Again."

"What are you doing now?"
"Being boring about boredom. I could bore for England, me. How boring is that? Hang on, time for some tedium."

Do you think it might catch on?

Twitter isn't for everyone, it has it's uses though. Being able to interact with friends making small talk in those moments of boredom. It's quite good for embedding onto a webpage to keep customers notified of whatever you do. It's nice to get a feel for the company knowing they actually exist, more human. Not sure I'm explaining it right but hope you get the jist.

It's okay, I do sort of "get" Twitter. It's just not for me.

I like to use more than 140 characters when I let forth, so I'd find myself horribly restricted. I can see how it can be useful for some purposes, though it does appear right now to be the "Hey, look! Aren't we hip and with it, 'cos we got Twitter and stuff!" thing of the moment for a lot of organisations.

Twit is a registered trademark of This Week in Tech (Leo Laporte) and his Twit Army. You'll be a Twitterer or Tweeter.

Interestingly, Twitter haven't trademarked anything, yet...

BTW, it is worth checking out TWiT (http://www.twit.tv), he runs a range of live casts and podcasts for a lot of tech interests. I subscribe to MacBreak Weekly, Windows Weekly, TWiT, Security Now and net@night. The shows are usually very amusing and often very informative.

Edit: Oh, and GizWiz with Dick DeBartolo (from MAD magazine) is usually a hoot (a daily short podcast about a gadget. The Friday ones, where they delve back into tech history can get very nostalgic.


Sign up as Marvin.

I don't tweet much, but it has provided a couple of interesting information feeds. For a few of the blogs I follow, it is certainly a much more informative and immediate way of getting updates than RSS.

Twitter is a mine of information, informed comment and humour, if you choose your followees carefully. If you don’t then yes, it’s full of crap.

As for the BBC story, what a load of garbage.



So that’s 1 million active users, hardly the “preserve of a few”, as the BBC describes it in the first paragraph.

But this is the best sentence: “And most people only ever ‘tweet’once during their lifetime, the researchers found.”

How the [LIFTED] can they know that? Twitter is three years old. Most lifetimes last a lot longer.

I probably tweet far too much for some people. My sister has complained that it’s cluttering up her Facebook profile

Mind you, if I didn’t tweet, certain people would not be entertained by my regular iPhone autocorrect FAILs.

You tweet too much?

You should try following bobgarret, mediaprince or newyorkdj (I think, he's stopped following me). NY DJ was tweeting pop video links about every 20 seconds!

I follow Bill Bailey, which is amusing...if a little surreal...