What the hell is Twitter?

During the past week or so, it’s been nearly impossible to avoid the near constant discussions among various bloggers and media sites about Twitter, the funky little service that lets anyone share with anyone what they’re doing right now. It is, for all intents and purposes, a simple interface for presence information. People use it to say what they’re doing, and lots of others then can follow what they’re doing — while updating their own Twitter information as well. The random tipping point explosion of a service may be somewhat interesting, but it’s been covered to death. What seems extra striking, however, is that the same week that Twitter hit the mainstream,a company called Tello disappeared. While Twitter is almost the definition of the accidental startup (created out of the the confusion over what the folks at Odeo wanted to be doing), Tello was supposed to be the “big business” answer to the presence question. [...]

[Techdirt]

I haven’t posted about it, but I have been using Twitter.  It is interesting in its own way, a way to post what I’ve been doing.  I’ve found it more interesting then important.  But I see its draw.  I threw the widget on the family blog (I figured it’d be too boring for those that visit here).  But currently I’ve used to to post about random stories that didn’t make this blog but I had read, and stupid stuff like being hungry and running to Jack-in-the-box.  But as a way to post a, “what am I doing now,” or a quick “I’ d like to share.” Twitter works nicely.

Tags: Interesting, Internet, Irony, Web 2.0