I feel like I’m a little late on the Twitter bandwagon here. Whether it be talking for it, against it, about it.
Twitter is blogging at its finest granularity. Micro-blogging, some have called it. Blogging in real time. As if having open source, easy-to-use blogging software wasn’t easy enough for newbies to self-publish almost instantly, Twitter gives you the ability to ‘blog’ or ‘tweet’ from your computer or even your cell phone.
Personally, I’m a fan of tweeting straight from my phone. I’ve got a Treo, I don’t have to worry about the pesky numeric keypad. I’m not as overinvolved as Scoble, who even manages to carry out conversations via tweets… but I make do. It was especially boredom-alleviating when I was stuck on the side of the highway yesterday morning.
I know that Twitter was all the rage at SXSW some time ago (as I didn’t attend, I don’t have much to add to that conversation). And I know that there have been some detractors from the service, such as people raising the obvious question: why do we need to know about these people real time?
Is it the voyeuristic nature of people? (Which explains the popularity of shows such as Big Brother, Real World, and The Apprentice) Is it the sociological need to feel connected no matter what? (Which explains the appeal and popularity of MySpace, Facebook, Friendster, VIRB…etc…)
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