http://twitter.com

Informational video describing a Twitter "use case".

"Microblog" and social networking site that allows users to make mini blog updates using cellphone text messaging. The general idea is that you can blog your your whereabouts and activities throughout the day, for friends to read..

as Patton Oswalt says, "This is the way the world ends: Not with a bang but a twitter"

I can't believe somebody actually thinks this is a good idea, and put up money to develop this application.

This falls into the life-does-not-need-to-be-incessantly-reported category.

Idea: The TITTER. An application which simply shows you pictures of fine breasts throughout the day. Long day at work? You get tittered and things pick up in more ways than one.

I can see how this could be cool in a really mundane kind of way.

There's a bunch of us poker players going to Vegas this weekend. We are all playing different games at different stakes and probably in different casinos. Thing is, we are all playing out of the same bankroll. So this Twitter thing might be helpful/fun to see in real time how Andy K has managed to lose with AK six times in a row at The Bellagio while I rake huge pots at Wynn.

I'm sure there's a great deal of information that could be discreetly shared among friends at a gambling casino...

But if it's a small group of friends, you could just use regular old text messaging. No need to drag the Internet into it.

I think the people who are using it are focusing on conversation. Like, you put something out there in 140 characters or less - "should I drink this beer here?" - and your contacts all chime in (in 140 characters or less) on what you should do. Or, "I have seen this thing on the internet - [link]" and then everybody chats about it. Sorry, 'tweets' about it.

In that way it appeals to what I enjoy about the internet - finding stuff, sharing it and talking about it. But www.friendfeed.com does that much better, aggregating your web stuff and providing much more room and context for discussion. If you have Facebook, you'll notice that the new Facebook design leans heavily on Friendfeed, and its discursive qualities. This is a thing I like.

It's worth noting that Twitter gained a lot of notice as it launched just before some technology conference and everyone at that conference went nuts for it. It seems to have ridden that initial burst of interest ever since.

So, crap when used for posting "I'm at the supermarket!" "I'm outside the supermarket!"; waffles for using it for conversations; waffles taken off because that is done better elsewhere.

Crap.

Not crap. I can see how it would be useful, but I never found it useful personally, which is a shame. But there's loads of crap I have to deal with already in my life as it is. WF 4.

Not crap. I use it to keep in touch with friends who I might not take the time out of every day to write an email or text to but we tweet at each other and it's fun. Some excellent nuggets from my friends' twitters:

met Bill Goldberg today. He's scary in the same way my dad is. Like he might tickle me until I die.

My new rule: Anyone who begins the snap of a camera with "1..2..3" is about to take a shitty picture.

Half the flavor of every Tootsie Pop is the taste of your own blood.