So I posted a Twitter badge on this blog’s sidebar about a week ago. Twitter, as I understand it, is a simple way to stay connected with your social network by answering the question, “What am I doing?” Updates to that question can be made via text messaging, the web or via instant messenger.
There’s only one problem. I don’t have a social network of people who really care about what I’m doing at any given moment of the day. Okay, well my kids ask me what I’m doing a lot, but it seems rude to tell them to go look it up on Twitter.
Since I’m in Idaho and my coworkers are in Ohio, they often ask me what I’m doing via instant messenger, but it’s easier to just answer on instant messenger than via Twitter.
John Edwards has an account on Twitter. I suppose if you like John Edwards it would be helpful to know what he’s doing. I’m not a big John Edwards fan.
There’s a public timeline so you can see a constant stream of updates from complete strangers about what they are doing. Now that can be entertaining for a few minutes. It at least allows me to practice my Spanish. The same public timeline also provides updates on breaking news, new podcasts, and other miscellanea.
Here’s a few snippets from the public timeline:
Someone named RLTZ says in Spanish she’s doing homework, listening to antidoping and about to cry. Apparently antidoping is a Mexican reggae group.
Somebody named Book2 writes, “Because she never let them in, Mr Deasy said solemnly.” A closer looks shows Book2 has decided to post James Joyce Ulysses line by line via Twitter. That’s ambitious.
Lot of folks are eating, going to bed, going running, and doing things I wasn’t aware existed. Now I suppose that is a benefit of Twitter. Learning new things.
On the other hand, it all seems just a bit narcissistic. Which is why I haven’t updated what I am doing for four days.
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