It’s taken me awhile to really understand Twitter. I didn’t use it until recently (thanks Kyle) but now I like it.
For a long while, micro-blogging to me was a guy just saying, “I am in the airport” “Bags taking a long time” Taxi is hot”- stupid crap like that.
And it’s true, there are plenty of people who do that.
But as I’ve started to use Twitter and think about my own experiences, I realize Twitter, for bloggers anyway, is for those times you have an idea or thought but you’re either too far from a computer to jot it down or it’s not enough for you to write a blog post about. That happens to me all the time, where I think to myself “That’s a great idea”, or “That’s a great idea for a blog post”, or “Wow, I am so witty”, and I end up forgetting it and it goes unrecorded in the annals of time.
In the US, I can see why it’s popular because you can just send stuff through text messaging (Kyle on his Sidekick) and a number of other ways. In Vietnam, I only have a desktop Twitter client, but since I’m around my computer so much, it’s not too bad. But it would definitely be bigger if I could use my mobile to text thoughts in and also send pictures directly to my account from my mobile phone camera. Twitter would definitely would be much more entwined in my life if I had a qwerty phone and mobile access to the service.
Kyle does a really good job at showing what makes Twitter worthwhile. I know him pretty well, so his updates tell me a little bit about what’s going on without it be a list of play-by-play, it’s more of a color commentary on his life.
I saw an ad saying Snoop was on Twitter, and his timeline is more of the generic, “At the airport”, “Got to the arena”, uninteresting bs I could care less about.
In Vietnam, you have so many bloggers who are doing it (blogging) because it’s trendy and they think they’re supposed to, the Internet society is definitely too young here to really understand a service like Twitter. I would even claim that they’re overall a very young blogging society, like a year 2002 USA.
Oh yeah, if you’re interested in my Twitter, find me at “genericdude”
