Not using - as Edubya said - who cares what people had for breakfast...
Even with people you know it isn't really that interesting what brand of cornflakes they ate.

For a more graphical representation of the global twitter activity see twittervision.com/ - it is actually bizarrely mesmerizing...


Or even better: flickrvision.com/

A cool waste of time...


Also check out www.jaiku.com/

- microblogging...

Instead of micro-blogging, I find it more akin to IM Away Status Message games. I, too, only have a few friends on mine. They are mostly funny and full of good quips (esp. Friday afternoons). Today it's been all Apple store line reports.

Lately, I have been kinda' annoyed by people who Twitter too much (and the Twitterific popups), but it has its purposes.

wow. using it for business meetings at this point and talking hash tags for twitter search, If it stays at this level, or grows... the way they could monetize their search enginge like google would be a bigger threat to google than the other engines.

I've been using Twitter for a year or more. Find me at BluesBro mostly posting about songwriting, Location Based Technology and futurism

I'm liking hootsuite.com/ (yeah, I know I'm late to the game).

I have my "main" account (twitter.com/OtherMichael - which is a mixture of personal and minor tech) and an art-writing account (twitter.com/XraysMonaLisa - which is... well, an art-writing account experiment thing). I'm thinking of splitting the personal account becuase I'm getting barraged by some of the other tech-twitterers I subscribe to -- friends get lost in the deluge.

Hoot Suite makes it easy for me to schedule times releases (like an old contact commercial) of semi-abstract tweets for the art account. Could do that for the personal account.. but... why?

And, of course, I heard of it from one of the tech-barrage tweeters ( twitter.com/elijahmanor ). Figures.


A form of these notes, and others, can be found at www.xradiograph.com/Programming/Twitter