Are you … uh … Twittering?


Posted: March 13th, 2007 | By: Steve Mullen | Filed under: Rants, Social Media Opinion | No Comments

Apparently there’s a new social media trend out there. I just heard about it (which probably puts me behind the times) and frankly I don’t fully understand it. Twitter allows users to create what I’d call a microblog, if your blog is the type that discusses what you had for breakfast. Twitterers, or members of the Twittersphere (I’m just making these up as I go along), use their cell phone text messaging, instant messenger program, or email to post one line “bloggettes” (I don’t like that one .. sounds too much like a pastry) about what they’re doing. That appears to be pretty much it for this site. It reads like a Larry King column. Despite that, it’s taking off like a jet plane bound for Guadalajara.

Since I don’t get it, I’ll post a few thoughts from people who apparently do:

Ian Curry from frogblog says…

Twitter is perhaps the best example of a new kind of blog that some are calling a “tumblelog.” The tumblelog is a bit like the old link lists: quick one or two-line entries – sometimes just a picture. Twitter in specific allows you to post, through a variety of means (IM, phone, web), short messages meant to describe what you are doing at any given moment. By establishing contacts on the site, you can also get a collected list of what all of your friends are posting.

The blog Library clips says…

Twitter is really increasing in popularity, and people are starting to add so many friends that their phone is a full-time vibrator.

Basically Twitter is social network micro-blogging, and best of all is its accessibility, you can keep in touch in different ways.

That’s a couple. I’m sure there are more. To me, Twitter just seems like the Web 2.0 version of a vanity license plate.

Edited to add on Dec. 13, 2008: Soooo … I‘ve been heavily into Twitter for a while and just realized I should probably do something about this post. I thought about deleting it but decided instead to add this note.  I admit it … I was wrong about Twitter.  It was a combination of not realizing Twitter’s usefulness and simply trying to be funny.  It take a big man to admit his mistakes, and I’m 6’3” and about 220.

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