All a Twitter about Twitter?
I was going through my daily RSS feeds when I came across Marusin's post about Twitter.
What's Twitter? The folks from Twitter describe it as "A global community of friends and strangers answering one simple question: What are you doing?"
The responses are of a quick and concise construction designed to convey ... Come to think of it, I don't know what it's designed to convey. The word "nothing" comes to mind.
It's social networking run amuck. Do I really give a shit that Damien Tanner just jumped "on the picadilly to the office" or that one of my web cohorts is eating dinner and watching a TV program? Not exactly!
I understand web logs. I understand social networking sites like MySpace and FaceBook. I understand building data stores based on social interests in order to bring people of similar interests together.
I don't understand the social networking relevance of "Went to 7/11 and bought a slurppee."
Where's the disconnect?