Well, I complain about it constantly with colleages, I rag on friends who use it. Basically, I never really got it. Yes folks, I’m talking about Twitter.
I was sitting on the bus on Saturday and decided to install a Twinkle on my iPhone, since I’ve been hearing good things about it. As a result of that installation I’ve also set up a twitter account (flipnode) to play around with it.
Before this, I could never understand why Twitter was making so much noise in terms of buzz on the web. After spending a couple days posting to it when I have nothing else to do, I think I can learn to love it. At it’s very core (to me anyways), you’re essentially sending text messages to the Internet at large. At first it seems bizarre, sending messages out into the series of tubes we all know and love, not knowing who will read it, or where it will get quoted; but once you get past that I think it’s a pretty awesome thing. I find it amazing that a random post can spawn a discussion between a whole bunch of potentially random users. Talk about social at it’s finest.
Bottom line, I totally dig it. Huzzah microblogging!
