I Am The Very Model Of A Web 2.0 General
I’m a first-class citizen in the eyes of the internet again: I got me a brand spanking new Twitter feed. Twitter is what all the cool bleeding-edge kids have been chatting about, but up to now I’ve ignored it, because it sounded kinda dumb. Streams of little 140 character max. messages? What’s the point of that when you have texting and blogging? Well this quote from their front page convinced me to do more than just dip me little toesies in:
If you aren’t familiar with Twitter, it is one of those things, like MySpace, that sounds totally ridiculous and stupid when you first hear about it. But once you start using it, you realize how much fun it is.
They used my negative preconceptions to draw me in; and lo and behold, the quote is right. One of the main strengths is actually that 140 character limit. The idea of writing a big old chunky blog post can be intimidating (the activation energy is large, to use the biochem lingo). Being coerced into trimming it down means you can throw out thoughts as they arrive, without having to compound them into something more structured. It’s like a public idea-jotting notepad.
I’m hoping to use it partly as a pre-post breeding ground, where little kernels of concepts store and mature, until one day they sprout into grand old oaken blog posts.
(You can see the latest Tweets on the right hand side of my blog ->, or you can get to my feed here)