I Might Be Addicted to Twitter

Posted by Dennis Metzcher in Computing, Hardware, Internet & Web, Software, Technology, Telephony on April 10, 2008 | no responses

I signed up for Twitter about a month ago after much resistance. Even after I signed up for it, I hardly used it for several weeks. Being that none of my friends use it, I could not understand why anyone would care about anything that I posted. I also could not come up with a reason that I would care about someone “heading to work” or “eating salad”. I have, however, in the last week or so, found a use for Twitter.

My friends may not use the service, but there are people in different industries, about which I am interested, who do. I’ve found that following these people brings me at least one or two tidbits of interesting and/or useful information each day, and that makes the service worthwhile. I use Twitter, mostly, as a news source, although there is currently one person with whom I use it to communicate via direct message. Now that I have installed the MobileTwitter client on my jailbroken iPhone, I think the rather fast assimilation of Twitter into my brain may be complete.

Resistance is futile. You will be assimilated.