My Twiiter Anal-ness!

Hello Fellow Bloggers...

For those of you who don't know what Twitter is, it is s a free social networking and micro-blogging service that allows users to send "updates"or "tweets" answering the question, "What are you doing". I have been a twitter user for almost a year now thanks to Miguel and although I am not the most frequent twitterer, I try to always twitter correctly. Now when I say, "twitter correctly" I mean that I try to answer the question "What are you doin". This is why twitter is called a micro-blog.

Here is the statement found on twitter's home page.   

Now, I am not to picky about how people twitter but there are 3 types of twitterers that annoy me:

     1. The Shadow Twitterer - This is the twitterer who feels the need to update the world on every move they make. 

      For Example: 

• 10:00am - Entering my car
• 10:02am - Driving
• 10:26am - Exiting my car
• 10:28am - Walking through front door

     2. The ichat Twitterer - This refers to the twitterers who decide to use twitter as their new instant messaging application. Seriously people, text messages and IM' are much more effective than this. And if making your conversation public is what you want, just send an email. 

     3. The "Huh?" Twitterer - This is the twitterer who chooses to answer someone else's tweet with one word like "Turkey", or "Superman". Whenever I see these types of tweets I am forced to scroll down to all my other friends' tweets to see what the heck they are talking about. Then I find another twitterer's tweet saying "Wondering what I should have for lunch" or "Wondering what a good movie to rent might be". I ain't a psychic!

Here is an example of how not to tweet:

• John: Does anybody know what's good playing at movies?
• Amy: Ironman
• John: @amy Thanks

Here is an example of how to have the same dialogue in twitter language:

• John: Wondering what good movie is playing at the movies
• Amy: Thinking John would enjoy Ironman
• John: Watching Ironman thanks to Amy's recommendation

      Ok so there you have it. That is my twitter rant! Hopefully this helps. If there are still some of you out there saying, "what's this guy talking about. That's just his opinion" Here is a video directly from Twitter.com. And if you don't have twitter and are a blogger, look into it. You might just like it.