A few years ago when people without an .edu email first started getting on Facebook, I remember someone saying "all my friends are on twitter." I'm sure I responded with an air of disgust and said, "what's that?" when I meant "who cares?" I can be an uninformed bitch that way. But to be fair (to myself), two years ago it probably wasn't much. That clearly has all changed.
In my new job I spend all day on Twitter. Not writing but reading and paying attention. It is true that people use Twitter for really mundane things like "just ordered dominos". I used to think who gives a crap? But now, I DO - since I'm comparing how often people want to share their affiliation with one brand over another. It's a really interesting study. I've also found that the fastest way to know ANYTHING is on Twitter - live blogging is delayed, regular blogging is really delayed, and news is tomorrow. Based on last night's Twitter activity I'm pretty sure Danny Gokey will finally be eliminated from American Idol because he was nowhere to be found - just Kris and Adam and his tongue. I've even found a few people that use Twitter to share useful information. And I'm pretty sure in the marketing world, I'll never need to actually attend a conference I can just follow the important stuff via Twitter posts which is very convenient and lowers my carbon footprint.
To get a lot of these interesting things, I had to start following people who, oddly, in turn started following me. How disappointing for them since I still don't know how I would use such a thing as Twitter. I can't imagine people that know me really caring what i'm doing or where I'm at (plus that's totally what Facebook status is for) - much less those that don't know me. BUT if I were famous - I can see a point. If people thought I knew a lot about anything and I provided up to the minute details of anything new - that might be useful. But this blog alone pretty much cements my limited basic knowledge of unimportant things like sewing, so I don't anticipate that happening anytime soon. Plus they call all these posts "Tweets" - and as we all know, I hate birds.

