Dec062007

I Don’t Think You Get Twitter

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I need more of my friends on Twitter. It’s a (very) short messaging service that broadcasts to all your friends and it’s like setting your Facebook status except better because you don’t have to become a vampire. I have Daniel, Dennis and David but they don’t describe their dreams and deliberations daily. Not even weekly. I think Studds stopped using it all together. I’ve posted about this before.

It’s such a shame. Because I’d love to keep in touch with people and just know what they’re thinking. Something completely random but relevant to their world as it is right now makes someone seem all the closer. To wit, here are some of my better Twitter messages (aka tweets):

  • “dear god I have the Plow King song stuck in my head”
    01:00 PM March 07, 2007

  • “Friday afternoon and I’m on my way home. The air smells of marshmallows and unicorns”
    06:32 PM April 27, 2007

  • “There’s a couple in the financial district. He’s teaching her to dance and twirling her around and around.”
    08:51 PM July 18, 2007

  • “Has anyone invented the word ‘cramputee’? It’s a good word for people who don’t warm up before working out.”
    08:17 AM July 27, 2007

  • “Back from speedboating and jet skiing. I hit my head and I hit Diana in the head.”
    07:17 PM July 28, 2007

  • “If my Delorean ever broke down, i would get it fixed and then travel back in time to when it broke and give myself a lift.”
    09:44 AM August 01, 2007

  • “‘People-watching’ in Seattle isn’t very interesting. It just involves watching people parallel park because nobody here walks.”
    03:43 PM August 04, 2007

  • “Overheard at the supermarket: ‘Mr Hardy, your parole officer is waiting for you at the checkout.’”
    08:13 PM August 21, 2007

  • “The coffee girl was totally checking out my chest (new t shirt).”
    01:28 PM September 22, 2007

  • “Bad news: Twitterific won’t launch. Good news: my hands smell like fresh muffins.”
    11:26 AM October 29, 2007

  • “Interesting souvenir bought by some Japanese guy: this month’s Playboy.”
    11:15 AM November 09, 2007

So go sign up for Twitter and you can update it from the web, from your phone via SMS, from GTalk. It’s free, you can set yourself to private, and I will like you a lot if you sign up.

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6 comments »

Justine

haha I’ve been trying to convince my friends forever. They always respond, “I already do that on facebook” and I’m left to try and explain how it’s just not the same.
Jack

For more of what Twitter is used for see Adam Lisagor: http://www.kottke.org/07/12/on-twitter-as-a-rude-metaphor

Or Ariel Meadow Stallings: http://electrolicious.com/2007/12/howwhy-i-use-twitter
Daniel

Well, I barely use Facebook either. Also, Twitter doesn’t seem to want to let me know what you’re doing. Is it supposed to GTalk me? Because it doesn’t.
Jack

Daniel: It’s a two-step process. First you follow a person, then you set notifications for that person to On. Not exactly the best terminology but there you go.
Mike

I understand that twitter is completely different to myspace or facebook, however I’m already fairly ensconced in the magical world of myspace whores, so I don’t want to be wasting even more time on random communications with yet another networking tool. I do wish I had found twitter before myspace though :-(
Jack

64 scrabble points for Mike for using the word “ensconced”. Guess English classes paid off. :D

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