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An ode to Twitter

August 10, 2007

Posted by leah.jones

I think I've said it before, but I really wanted to hate Twitter. The micro-blogging platform that took off during SXSW in March. It seemed so insipid, so self-indulgent, so silly... but I got an account anyway.

Since I started using it in March, I have fallen in love with it. I have described it to non-Twitterers as a virtual water cooler. It has enabled personal relationships with colleagues in Germany and Spain. Perhaps more important are the people I've met because of Twitter.

I now have a circle of local techie geeks that I am pleased to call my friends. Someone will Twitter the location of a tech get-together and a day later we are all there. Someone will Twitter a request for lunch company and I can join up.

I have met more people in 6 months on Twitter than in nearly four years of blogging. I love the immediacy and the intimacy that it creates. What about you, did you get on the Twitter/Jaiku/Pownce bandwagon? What do you think of it?

posted by leah.jones

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I’ve also become addicted – it’s fast and to the point. Once I get a moment to myself, it is so easy to send a little shout-out on what I’m doing/watching/thinking at that one moment. That said, I have to admit that my posts are still very general and I’ve not reached out to many people.

Posted by: dybarra at August 24, 2007 11:51 AM

I am obsessed with Twitter (as you know). I have definitely met more people, and become closer with more people than I have via blogging alone.

Posted by: foodmomiac at August 24, 2007 1:44 PM

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