My review of Twitter and the call to get you to visit me there

Yes, I know this is like the oldest thing in the book and everyone has a Twitter account and the Fail Whale is cute and all… Yes, I get it. My mom had a Twitter before I did.

Anyway, I have a serious moral contention with the Internet sometimes, and it’s not that the Internet is bad. It’s just this eerie, end-of-the-world philosophy I’ve got that I will hold off on talking about on here (and to not make myself seem like a crazy). However, because of it, I’ve tended to shy away from any social media site. I don’t have a MySpace, I didn’t get a Facebook until I had to for work (at Rice), and now I didn’t get a Twitter until I had to for work again (at Schpiul… Thanks, Ed!).

Now that I’m on Twitter though, it doesn’t seem so bad. I don’t like the concept of micro-blogging, but I think that if you use Twitter as the worlds-ago-seems-like-only-yesterday “Away Message” (or the newer Facebook Status), it’s a well-oiled machine. I don’t like the idea that I’m missing out on something I might need to see, and the “tweets” come and go so quickly there’s always the worry you’re going to skip over something. I figure that will pass as time goes on and I realize that no one else reads everything (except the Twitterholics).

Rands has some good tips on keeping Twitter a happy place, and I really like his idea that Twitter should allow a user to group people they’re following to make reading updates easier (e.g., work, friends, professional, people I don’t know, etc.). Anyway, let’s hope this “Twitter” thing works out.

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