WHAT AM I DOING THIS GODDAMN INSTANT? WHY WOULD ANYBODY CARE?!

[spatch]

BELOW PLEASE FIND THE ONE SINGLE ENTRY I WOULD EVER MAKE ON TWITTER

spatch NOT USING TWITTER, THAT'S FOR GODDAMN SURE

OH BOY WE ARE RIDING THE SURFING EDGE OF WEB2.0 HUMOR HERE TODAY

and besides, let's face it, folks, the only reason you're refreshing that list is to catch the one person who put down "masturbating" and doesn't mean it as a joke.

Comments

[toonhead-npl.livejournal.com]

Ok I've read all the articles and I *STILL* don't grok what the big deal is with Twitter. Am I just some old lame fart?

[jossish.livejournal.com]

Ok, I had no idea what Twitter was so I went and looked. I am all about letting people know what's going on in my life via LJ and Facebook but: seriously? An entire site? Just for "what are you doing right now"? The fuck?

[dskasak.livejournal.com]

Twitter is the "Short Attentions Span Theater" take on LJ.

[limax.livejournal.com]

What's Twitter?

[fancycwabs.livejournal.com]

Some of us use it for short-form artistic expression and the listing of new Googlewhacks (Babydaddy Gramma), in addition to our more mundane "Walking in Memphis. Through the FedEx Hub, to be precise." Also as a repository for our text-message haiku.

That doesn't mean you gotta like it, of course. Still, less obnoxious than MySpace.

[invisibelle.livejournal.com]

The fact that I don't "get" Twitter does indeed make me feel old. Totally sympathize.

I dunno, you might like it maybe more than you think

[cropherb.livejournal.com]

This is kind of like what fancycwabs said, but I'll elaborate a bit further.

I find Twitter is one of those things that would be truly mundane to the point of uselessness if it were used simply as it is ostensibly designed to be, but which is much more fun when repurposed to surrealistic or otherwise zany effect. For other examples, compare setting the "Topic" in an IRC channel, an IM client status line, or something you'd put in .plan if anyone used finger anymore.

I realize, I may not really be succeeding in selling the thing here, but I've always appreciated those little opportunities to paste kind of brief and gentle digital graffiti for a relatively narrow yet not quite private audience. What Twitter really offers is a whole environment comprised entirely of that sort of quippage. In this respect it may not differ much from a bathroom wall, but at least for the moment (especially if you choose your friends list carefully) it is at least the bathroom wall in a café habituated by a rather witty, bright, and charming clientele.

http://twitter.com/notmydesk is a pretty good example of someone using Twitter to good effect, IMO. And of course there's also http://twitter.com/loresjoberg

[toonhead-npl.livejournal.com]

My biggest problem is the name is just so dumb. Besides I keep seeing it as "Tweeter" and wonder why the hell my sound system would need to know where I'm at.

[fleep513.livejournal.com]

Have to add to the thread, my first thought was wtf is this for, who cares what all these people are doing. Then I got hooked into a couple of groups and I'm wishing the damned bbs crowd would twitter-in because I just don't have time to read pages and pages and pages of catch up even though I WANT to, but I can digest fun-size bites sprinkled liberally about my day.

*shrug* I don't see it as any more self-indulgent, meaningful or meaningless, interesting, boring, or otherwise questionable use of my time than LJ - it just takes up a hell of a lot less of it. I don't need two hours to figure out what my twitter-twerps are up to, but it just took me two hours to go through TWO DAYS of LJ posts to find out what's going on with the schwans.

Just do it. You'll be the first bona-fide twit-celebrity of the masses.

FUN N TWITS WITH YER OLE PAL SPATCH

sign me up.

[fourcoffees.livejournal.com]

I set mine to "Watching people put the twit in Twitter". Mocking others for using this seems to be the only use of it.