The fact that so many politicians are able to use Twitter, let alone that they're apparently as addicted to it as any 8th grader, should cause every person of good conscience to immediately forswear its use and perform public acts of contrition.
I'm just saying.
Speaking as a 25-year-old, WTF is Twitter? I keep hearing these kids and Congresspeople talking about it all the time, but, what? Is it like a blog, just really short? why not just make blog posts that are really short? Are you able to get to it from your phone or something? Why would I want to read daily thought droppings anyways?
Posted by: Corvus | February 07, 2009 at 06:45 PM
I just figured out Facebook and already it's a major time-suck. I'm afraid to find out about Twitter...
Posted by: Voice o' Reason | February 07, 2009 at 07:56 PM
yeah, i'm pretty new to facebook and it is all i can handle. badly, because i just ignore a lot of things and refuse to throw sheep and -- jerry brown has a facebook page and has posted 25 things about himself, except the dude is running for governor. AGAIN. not that i have personally friended him -- i just read about it in the paper.
twitter seems utterly beyond anything i'd want to try. at this point.
Posted by: kathy a. | February 08, 2009 at 12:16 AM
Oh dear, I know what you mean about Facebook--I have a massive pile-up of pokes, "comparison" test invites, cause invites, Hello Kitty presents, and other various bits and pieces that I must, at some point, respond to or delete or something. It's fun to dig around that site, yeah, but it can be an even bigger time suck than eBay (and for me, that's saying something).
As for Twitter, good grief, I cannot for the life of me imagine that anyone would want to read my dashed-off messages about what I'm doing or thinking. Nor can I imagine revealing to the world how truly unglamorous my life is--better to leave intact the myth that I swan around in my spike heels and tiara all day, using my jeweled scepter to bonk misbehaving children on the head. And really, no-one--no-one--would want to read my teevee-screaming thoughts, especially lately.
Posted by: litbrit | February 08, 2009 at 07:18 AM
Don't bother with Twitter.
Every now and then, someone posts their Twitter feed to their blog so you can see, later, what they said in real time when they had access to their phone but not their laptop.
And every time, it consists of banal bits and pieces that prove they should have just waited until later to do a real blog post.
And I'm talking about good bloggers - people I read regularly. I'd hate to see what Twitter sounds like in the hands of morons. Or maybe it makes everyone who uses it sound cognitively challenged.
Posted by: low-tech cyclist | February 08, 2009 at 02:08 PM