Why so serious?
In spite of the fact that I haven't contributed much in the way of reading material here at WITFITS in months, I went ahead and signed up for Twitter.

Yet another service I can join and then ignore a month later.

For those not in the know, Twitter is sort of a micro-blogging service, centered around 140 character (max) text posts. It can be posted to via the website, SMS, instant message, or third party plugin.

If blogs answer the question "What did your cat do yesterday?" then Twitter answers the question "What did your cat do 3 seconds ago?" No, seriously.

I don't know why I signed up. I guess cause I wanted to follow all the cool people, like Veronica, and Leo, and Ze. Or maybe I just figured that I don't have time to write the overly wordy prose I used to on this site and so perhaps a micro-blogging tool would be a good outlet for my bursts of micro-creativity.

Although, in all fairness it'll probably look like this:

Kato Katonian
I just ate peanut M&Ms. about 5 minutes ago from web
I'm eating peanut M&Ms. about 6 minutes ago from web
I like peanut M&Ms. about 7 minutes ago from web


Not exactly Pulitzer material, unless they've started giving out a prize for spouting off whatever is on the top of my head (*crossing fingers*).

If I keep up with it you can follow me at:
http://twitter.com/KatoKatonian

Anyone else out there "tweeting"?
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6 comments
MC Etcher said...
good lord, sir! you aint got the wherewihal to blog, but you have time to tweet about m&ms...
Paulius said...
I can't imagine restricting myself for 140 WORDS let alone characters.

I think of twitter as more of a 'utility' thing than a blogging tool. Like PvP and Penny Arcade use it to alert people that they're about to start a live uStream show.

Right now though, I've no use for it
Kato (post author) said...
Etch: What can I say? They're tasty.

Paulius I have actually been using an account for ihalostats to do just that: post updates. Thought I'd give the more social aspect a try.
WildWeazel said...
I just joined for no apparent reason too! In fact I think that was roughly my first tweet. What are the odds?
Kato (post author) said...
The odds are a googol to 1!
Miss Scarlet said...
I Facebook Status instead of tweeting...have thought about it recently though.

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