JC - Technology and Stuff

So I read all the hype about Twitter, then I looked at the website, then I ignored it all and let it do its thing in the background for several months. I even read all the recent press about how bad the service was now it’s grown so big and how it’s unusable and a dog.

But, after writing my blog entry last weekend about social networking I revisited the website and re-watched the semi-comic video. I wondered what Twitter could do for me. If it could even do anything for me! Anyway, to cut a long story short I signed up for an account and was wowed by the nothingness of it. Just what was I going to use it for? I sent a twitter anyway, just for the fun of it (Sitting at home trying to become social 01:56 PM July 13, 2008 from web) and I sat back. Exciting.

But then it hit me. It wasn’t about what twitter was, it was about what twitter could be used in conjunction with. If I sent twitters to myself throughout the week as I was doing things then I could use those twitters as reminders for when I write my blog entries. Hmm. Now the mind was beginning to work a little.

So that covered when I was at home or at work and on a PC, but what about when I was out somewhere without access to a PC? What if I had a thought or event then? Not a problem, I could also attach a phone to my twitter account and use that to send and receive twitters too. Now all I had to do was send a text message to ‘40404′ (the twitter shortcut) and lo and behold the text message appeared on my twitter log. Amazing. And I really do mean amazing. Now I had a way of sending myself reminders, statuses, ideas. The possibilities were endless. Maybe twitter wasn’t such a bad thing after all.

I sent 6 twitter messages before I had my next bright idea. But that’s another story…

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