From: usenet@stainlesssteelrat.net   
      
   Alfie [UK] wrote:   
   > 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'.   
      
   That's the cynic's stereotype - and I would expect to see it from POD, but   
   not from you Alfie - but for someone who has actually used twitter for a few   
   months now (and typically these comments come from those that don't), with a   
   whole range of friends, the stereotype is perhaps not surprisingly wrong.   
      
   In fact when I started out with Twitter it was purely with cynical motives   
   that it was going to be pointless, but for me personally I found a use   
   (mostly due to the TweetDeck app). The reality is people posting about their   
   life in what are nothing more than short blog posts (longer than the   
   examples quoted). Sometimes quantity is not all it's about, and having   
   blogged and monitored blogs for almost a decade it's sometimes the shortest   
   blog posts that gain the most attention.   
      
   I'm still undecided about the celebrity issue, that is both celebs tweeting   
   and those who follow celebs and try and draw a reply from them, although I   
   suspect it's mostly innocent.   
      
   Anyway, it seems to be much like blogging and social networking, and perhaps   
   even the web full stop before that. There are millions of people that do it   
   and enjoy it, yet there are the naysayers on the outside who have either   
   never tried it, tried it briefly, or don't enjoy it therefore attempt to   
   rubbish it.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)