Chirp.

[cathyr19355]

Today, I opened an account on twitter.com.

Why? Because landley and fadethecat have recently done so.

I'm still trying to figure out what the point of twitter is. To my mind, it combines the annoying elements of both blogging and IMing without incorporating the good points of either. So why twitter? To have a mini-blog on your phone? Since I can read and post to my LiveJournal from my Blackberry, I still don't see the point.

But maybe I'll find a use for twitter now that I have an account. So, for now, chirp.

Comments

[cathyr19355.livejournal.com]

I'm aware that one can be selective about whether to follow particular people and that you don't need to have twitter on your phone or Blackberry. But for most purposes (for an exception see my reply to vakkotaur above) I don't see a reason to have what, to my mind, amounts to a log of instant text messages.

Of course, it could be that I don't fully appreciate the limits of IMs--I haven't used them much. If you find it useful for keeping up with people, that's fine. Me, I'd rather use LJ for that. :-)