During Christmas break I discussed Twitter with a friend. She was unfamiliar with the phenomenon, as was I only a few days before, so I described it based off the "Twitter in Plane English" video on Twitter's homepage. In that video Twitter describes itself as a way for people to inform the people in their network of what they are doing between the important events in their life. For example, someone may write an email or chat on IM about eating breakfast with the family, working, and going to a concert that evening. Twitter, however, allows those folks to share the "little things that happen in your life." Those little things? Mowing the lawn, drinking coffee, picking your nose, etc.
At the end of the conversation my friend say with a wonderfully straight face, "Sounds like they called it Twitter because they couldn't call it stalker."
I laughed and laughed. With the fear of sounding reactionary and, dare I say it, like a fuddy duddy, is Twitter a bit much? Is Twitter the 21st century stalker?
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nooooo - people who dont' use twitter don't get twitter. use it and you'll get it.
uuuuhhhhhh hhhhuuuuhhh... that's what they all say.
Niki told me you blogged about Twitter, then I searched it and realize I've read it before.
I'm not avid into Twitter, I wrote a blog about it tonight that I thought you might want to see...
http://cmchutes.tumblr.com
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