cabridges That isn’t just mundane minutiae of everyday life that nobody could possibly care about. It’s
Twitter!
cabridges Mulling over wardrobe choices, which means socks that match as long as I wear thigh-high boots. Success! Wait, one’s a glove…
cabridges Twitter is the hottest new Internet social trend, which means it’s been around since last summer and the media has finally noticed.
cabridges It’s a microblog, or group IM. You post messages for anyone to see, and people can friend you or just subscribe to your ramblings.
cabridges Speeding when workers are present is evil, according to the signs on I-4. What if the workers are goofing off? Can I wing one?
cabridges What makes it novel is that posts are restricted to 140 characters. No pics, no video, no ads, no “Which Buffy character are you?” results.
cabridges To people unused to IMing through life, Twitter looks like the stupidest thing ever. How arrogant, to think anyone cares about your habits.
cabridges Google corrected my spelling of “badonkadonk.” I don’t know how writers managed before the Internet.
cabridges To the cellphone generation, used to constant communication in bite size chunks, it’s great. Like telegrams but with more smilies.
cabridges Every time I come home from getting groceries I want one bite of everything I just bought. I’m sure there’s a medical term for this.
cabridges Since you can post and receive notifications of new twitter posts (”tweets”) by phone or IM, you can always stay aware of what your friends are doing.
cabridges You can hook up with friends, spread a message quickly, work with a group on a project, get BBC headlines, or just browse peoples’ lives.
cabridges Jan. 2 and Mar. 18 should also be official holidays, with dimly lit decorations and whispered songs about Advil, B12 and tomato juice.
cabridges booktwo is tweeting the novel “Ulysses” a line every 15 minutes, for your daily required intake of surrealism.
cabridges There is a store in Orlando that sells only mayonnaise. The apocalypse is upon us, and it involves cholesterol.
cabridges Twittervision mashes with Google Maps to show you realtime tweeting around the world. It’s like an international non sequitur lava lamp.
cabridges Peanut butter on both slices and jelly in the middle, or PB and J evenly distributed? I’m in over my head, here.
cabridges For some, Twitter is a quick hit for when they don’t have enough material for a “real” blog entry. It’s an ADD blog on double capp espresso.
cabridges You can find statements of Zen-like complex simplicity. You may find yourself thinking in haikus.
cabridges Oops, I cut myself / The butter knife, of all things / Twitter 911?
cabridges Not a lot of “name” celebrities, unless they’re lying low. And it’s relatively uncluttered by porn or spam, which may be unique on the Web.
cabridges @everybody: Say, is arterial blood bright red or just red-red?
cabridges You can even tweet from Second Life, which means now I can tell people what I’m pretending to do.
cabridges @ambulanceguy32: got the tourniquet applied. I’ll be at the corner by the McDonalds. See ya there!
cabridges Links get converted to tinyurls to save space. And everything is archived for future generations, who will be too busy tweeting to read.
cabridges @ambulanceguy32: Still waiting. Where R U?
cabridges With Twitter, you never have to be cut off from your friends and loved ones again. Unless they block you, of course.
cabridges Communication is king. Social circles are everywhere. And instantaneous updates are just barely fast enough.
cabridges Any day now the White House red phone will be replaced with a red Blackberry. “Yo Blair whatup? Bill passd, Canada pwnd!!!!”
cabridges Is it getting dark earlier again? Where’s all our saved daylight time, anyway? This is really… Oh, right. Blood loss. Never mind…
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