More about the bizarre-ness that is Twitter
Ever seen someone come up with an idea on the internet that was so cool, so useful that you really wanted it to work, even if it didn’t?
That’s where I am with Twitter. I know I have posted about this before. But at least I get it now. Imagine a mini-blog. Where you just post one liners. It’s WAY easier to keep up with than an actual blog. If I’m at work, and I come across a cool link, or have a funny thought, I’m way less guilty about posting it to Twitter, which I can do in 10 seconds, than I am about posting to my blog, which, of course, I am doing now.
Examples of recent tweets: “If the San Antonio Spurs love Avery Johnson so much, then they can have him.” And a whole array of commentary on jury duty.
See? Just super short blog entries.
There’s two main issues with Twitter. It really requires that you have a certain critical mass of “friends” or people following you. This, at the moment, I don’t have.
The other is, that in the words of John Gruber… it’s great, except for problems with “uptime, consistency, and reliability.” I could not agree more. Twitter could be far more of a phenomenon than it is already, if only it worked more often.
I use Twitterific as a client on the Mac, I don’t know what you can use on Windows. There’s even a really nice client on the iPhone called “PocketTweets” (it’s actually a web site, optimized for iPhone.)
I figure the second problem will take care of itself, someday. I assume that they are working to make it better.
For the first problem, if you read this, and you use Twitter, please try following “ender3″