Everyone on the interweb is talking about Twitter. Now look at me, I've been sucked into the Twitter-related-post vortex. I'm drinking the kool-aid, feeding the beast, jumping on the bandwagon, et cetera.
One thing you'll hear people say about Twitter is, "It doesn't make a lot of sense until you just sign up and try it." I'll buy that, I guess. I signed up last December and I've found it to be another interesting internet diversion. But I really don't get all the hype about it being THE NEXT BIG THING.
I mean, let's be realistic, it's no Zombo.com. So, without further ado, here's another post about Twitter that the internet can add to it's collection. In the great Twitter tradition of keeping everything under 140 characters, here are my thoughts on Twitter in 140 characters or less.
1. I'm no programming genius, but isn't Twitter little more than the 'hello world' of social network apps?
2. I don't use it to tell people what I'm doing. No one needs to know that I'm sitting at my desk and am enjoying a tasty bagel.
3. I do use it to communicate random and ridiculous things that have no real basis in fact.
4. It's called Twitter for pete's sake. Try saying it out loud with a straight face. Go ahead, try it, I'll wait.
5. The whole @ thing. Yeah.
6. If everyone Twittered like Merlin Mann then the world would be a strange and wonderful place.
So that's Twitter for ya. If you want to take part in my INTERNET LIFE FEED, feel free to follow me here: http://twitter.com/riebschlager