The latest wacky web widget I'm playing with is Twitter.
You know how, when blogging got big, that people started joking, "Oh, great, now people are going to post every little thing they do online!"
Well, that's what Twitter is for. Posting updates by SMS, IM, or (if you insist) via the web... short, spontaneous, one-sentence updates from wherever you might be. Imagine a friend messaging you now and then asking, "What are you doing?" Well, you can answer to your friend, several friends, or the world.
Yeah, this means a lot of posts like, "Watching Heroes," "Standing in line at the supermarket, milk is expensive," and "Thinking that girl two rows up is cute." But it can be fun, or reassuring, or downright surreal, to see these stray thoughts collected in one place. You can see a "stream" of all your friends' Twitter posts, and discover if there are any odd coincidences. Definitely a lot of posts on the site mentioned "Heroes" last night!
Anyone here a Twitter-er? My profile is here, though obviously I'm not up to much. I wrote a longer review of the site here.
You know how, when blogging got big, that people started joking, "Oh, great, now people are going to post every little thing they do online!"
Well, that's what Twitter is for. Posting updates by SMS, IM, or (if you insist) via the web... short, spontaneous, one-sentence updates from wherever you might be. Imagine a friend messaging you now and then asking, "What are you doing?" Well, you can answer to your friend, several friends, or the world.
Yeah, this means a lot of posts like, "Watching Heroes," "Standing in line at the supermarket, milk is expensive," and "Thinking that girl two rows up is cute." But it can be fun, or reassuring, or downright surreal, to see these stray thoughts collected in one place. You can see a "stream" of all your friends' Twitter posts, and discover if there are any odd coincidences. Definitely a lot of posts on the site mentioned "Heroes" last night!
Anyone here a Twitter-er? My profile is here, though obviously I'm not up to much. I wrote a longer review of the site here.
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