Twitter: Why?
I just had a look at Twitter, mainly because I’d heard a bit about it in classes gone past and wanted to know what its purpose was and how it could be used. After watching the “Twitter: In plain English” video, I don’t hink I’ll bother signing up.
Basically, Twitter is a social networking tool where you tell people what you are doing at the moment. You have 140 characters to write in, and then it posts it, like a blog post, to your page. People who ‘follow’ you basically RSS feed you and get updates of when you write something, for example, “I am going to the shops”, or “reading [insert name of book]“. It’s like the tool on Facebook next to your avatar where you write what you’re doing. Once you write it up, it updates in the box below and shows up in all your friend’s faccebook profiles in their box.
What I don’t like about it is this: why hop on the computer every twenty minutes to say you’re mowing the lawn or going for a swim or something? Why bother? Just go and mow the lawn or go for a swim.
