try twitter

Thought it was time I had a look at one of these bloomin’ social tracking systems ;)

So far I’ve subscribed signed up to follow a couple of peeps from here, and am being followed by some random dating site avatar. Hmm!

http://twitter.com/wooleyduck

I have a few posts so far.

Bleeding edge updates were interesting during the wildfires in San Diego last year, so I can imagine scenarios where Twitter could be useful to some people (tornado/flood updates, election results, live sports updates, daily haiku(?), etc).

On the other hand, I’ve found most feeds to be disappointing – the MarsPhoenix feed, for example, is surprisingly insipid – but then, this may be the nature of the medium.

Much like text messaging, I don’t like the way Twitter tends to degrade language and truncate thought. As my friends move from mail to e-mail, e-mail to IM, IM to social networks, social networks to Twitter/Pownce/Jaiku, I hear from them with increased frequency but with diminished (depth of and care for) content.

I’m sure we’ll soon be hearing about the “maturation of micromedia,” and how these services make great “business and networking tools.” Just what the world needs, yet another (viral, invasive) tool in the corporate marketing arsenal. No thanks.

..I have mixed feelings about being hyper-connected, but I love the idea of being able to blog concisely, randomly and ubiquitously. So here goes.

I am twittering at http://twitter.com/ninawills.

i got sick of it…

now i’m trying pownce instead.

http://twitter.com/digitaltempest

Already I can see why Twitter is useful. I think one needs to not become addicted, but see it as another tool. “Twit” when it makes sense.

Just to note—I’ve already gotten two good pieces of info from my friends in Twitter. Not sure how quickly I would have gotten them otherwise.

I’m going to keep Twittering….

Today (4/28) I signed up for Twitter and figured out how to add friends ONCE I found a few! Already have seen one useful message.

The experiment begins.