Yep.

It started waaaaaaay back though.

Yeah i remember watching that with my dad.

I don't use it as a straight like/agree. I think I RT more based on how I think other people will react to it, so if it's useful/amusing/insightful to me, and I think it will be to others too, I'll RT.

LMFTFY (8-p)

Right, so left Twitter open for an hour or so while I went and did some things in town.
I come back to...

Now, most of that will be @messages to other people. There's a few article links in there (often poorly described and without any sort of preview/precis), and someone telling me about a site their son won a free iPhone on (of course he did).
It's like when your friend texts you with 'OK'.
On Facebook, I come back to a fraction of the noise (about 33 in fact) and some pictures of friends working with Elephants in South Africa, and another wondering around the set of The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen in Prague, and an article about Terror Birds and Jules Verne.

I can't see the image at work so not sure what it is but...

On Twitter you only see tweets of people you are following (and mentions with you in them).

If you don't want to see stuff from a random guy you don't really know then stop following him.

I only follow 20 or so people and the main tweets I read are the MacRumors feed, JakeHumphrey (and a few more F1 people), WiredUK, etc...

Every now and then I see a good link or something tweeted or retweeted by a friend but I generally don't read most stuff.

It was 137, fwiw,
I follow 66 people. About half of those are sites, the rest are friends. Twitter just seems to be so much noise. What's the saying about empty vessels?
(Please don't think this is an attack on the people I am following; it's really not, it's just my experience so far with one of the darlings of social networking.)

Perhaps Twitter is not for you? It obviously doesn't suit everyone.

I thought it wasn't when it first started to be the big thing, it just didn't make sense to me.
I'll carry on with it, certainly; friends who's opinions I carry in regard seem to think it's brill, so I'll keep looking at it until I can see what they're seeing.

I only really use it to share links, keep in touch, be amused and to spout off on stuff to agitate or enlighten. I point people at my Flickr stream and my blog, so Twitter is a way to draw traffic, if you like. I think you need to mix and match Twitter with other forms of communication to get it to work it at its best. If you have something to say, you can use Twitter to draw people to you and send them somewhere you can expostulate at length. I notice a lot of bloggers use it that way.

When I first began to use it, I felt I didn't make a difference, and no-one was really listening - apart from my immediate social circle. It's been more than a year now, and I've started to feel my noises are being heard, sometimes in the right sort of places.

If you throw enough sh!t at a wall, some eventually sticks.

theres an IRA film I watched about that in a literal sense

And Bratty wins today's Random Post prize!

Just as an experiment, I still haven't clicked to uncover the Tweets that have arrived since I posted the figure earlier. It currently stands at 325 Tweets.
I'm going to try and leave it running for 24hrs to see how many Tweets arrive since I first mentioned the 137 figure.

Tbh I didn't really get into twitter until I got an iPhone. I liked the idea of it but didn't see the point of using it on q desktop.

It seems like a mobile phone is the perfect way of accessing it. If I didnt have it on my iPhone I prob wouldn't use it.

I could totally screw up your stats. (8+D

Mark