I admit it, I have become a Twitter addict. A “Twiddict”, I guess you could say.
When I first started using Twitter, a now widely applied micro blogging application allowing people to update the world on their doings in short 140 character bursts, I thought it was insanely stupid.
Who cares what I’m doing? Did the world need to know that I was heading out to jog or that I recently rediscovered my love of flavor-ice pops?
Short answer? Yes. Yes it does.
Once I dug in and started adding more and more people (my Tweeps) I started interacting more and slowly but surely started looking forward to seeing what people were up to whenever I logged in.
That was key by the way, adding people. It gets boring real quick if your just updating yourself on what YOU are up to.
To enable the addiction, interaction is made easier through tons of third party applications like Twhirl that allows you to stay logged into multiple accounts at a time and Twiddict that will save your Tweets (messages) if Twitter is down and deliver them as soon as it is up again.
Twitter seems to have a few stability problems but people are so in love with Twitter no one has left for other more stable applications like Plurk or identi.ca just yet. Why?
If that isn’t a relationship metaphor I don’t know what is. Come on, this chick is EXCITING!!!! Twitter has a huge community, it’s own language, birds and whales and hey, it was first.
Other than to out myself as a complete Twitter geek, the inspiration for this post on a Friday morning was that I noticed Twitter has developed a few cliches.
I find myself reading more and more updates regarding the making of coffee and the undying need for the first cup of it in the morning. I would be interested in a study that looked at what percentage of Twitter folks are addicted to caffeine.
Another overdone Tweet? People letting you know that their life is good.
Usually people will tweet something like that via text that when just starting to feel the effects of alcohol, driving into a sunset or involved in some other picturesque, movie-like experience.
Just something I noticed. Take it for what you will, maybe a quick study in human behavior or something like that.
Any Twitter cliches jumping out to you? Let me know.
In the meantime I gotta grab this first cup of Joe, head out the door to jog, and kick off the weekend.
Life is good.
Luke — excellent post. A, too, have become a Twiddict. I tend to check Twitter even before I check my e-mail in the mornings, just to see what my tweeps have been up to. I’ve really started appreciating TweetDeck because of Twitter’s instability issues and the lack of the Older link many times first thing in the morning.
And yes, life is good — especially with coffee! (Make mine chicory coffee, with Splenda and half-and-half.)