From: alfie@mail.invalid   
      
   On Sat, 28 Mar 2009 04:41:19 +0100, "Lukas Mariman"   
    wrote:   
      
   >I haven't tried it yet, but for some reason it seems to be all the rage. I   
   >listen to a few tech-oriented podcasts, and they can't stop talking about   
   >it. So what's the appeal?   
      
   Twitter is basically an offshoot of blogging, a kind of micro-blogging   
   by mobile phone. Where bloggers would sit down and write a piece on   
   something, meaning they had to be at a computer and hence not usually   
   in the middle of doing what they are writing about, tweeting is really   
   just posting what you are thinking/doing at any particular moment from   
   wherever you are.   
      
   The Lowest Common Denominator version ends up being 'I am on a bus',   
   'I just got to work', 'I am having a bar of chocolate', 'I am thinking   
   of talking to the girl in accounts', 'I am sitting on the toilet'.   
      
   I have no idea why this is the new big thing, in the same way that I   
   don't understand how blogging devolved to it's LCD version of posting   
   'I am sitting at a computer wondering what to write about, oh, I know,   
   today I went to work' yet still seemed to somehow be cool.   
      
   Same as 'free' web sites before that, everyone 'knew' they had to have   
   one to be cool, but had no idea what to put on it or could be bothered   
   to keep it updated.   
   --   
   Alfie [UK]   
      
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