I'm all a-Twitter

I signed up for this delightful new service called Twitter.  The best way I can explain it is "micro-blogging."  It gives you a way to post short blurbs online, and/or broadcast them to your friends (through IM or SMS).  You can update it via IM/SMS as well, and I just wrote a Google Desktop Gadget for it so I could have a little textbox for updating sitting on my screen.  Gonna post it on the new .tv but I wanted to spread the word in the meantime.  I'm having fun with it  :)

Comments

I give up...

Why not just keep blogging here? I guess it's neat that your Twitter posts can be flung at friends via IM or SMS, but otherwise, isn't it just as easy to post a "micro" post here?

Oh I am... but I'm updating

Oh I am... but I'm updating like 10-20 times a day on Twitter with little one-liners. It's a totally different type of service, more like a status awareness. I keep this for longer and more intentional posts. I don't think they necessarily have the same audiences and I wouldn't want to force 20 entries a day on casual acquaintances on LJ and such :)

A cool sservice

I've heard about this service before from the Microformats e-list. Looks like a cool service, though.

Friends

How do we become StG's twitter friends? Sending you an invite after signing up?

I think you just sign up, go

I think you just sign up, go to my page (http://twitter.com/stephthegeek) and then click Add.

It's pretty neat... I have all my friends' updates coming in as instant messages.

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