Twitter is a strange little creature. Hyper simple, super focused and potentially very useful. If I explained it here you’d think it was a frivolous service for asbos and ADD afflicted kids. Worse than blogging, way worse than IM and email, bah!, way worse than that email malarky that will never catch on with us high-minded folk.
The way I see Twitter is as the background murmur in a cafe filled with super intelligent people. You let the stream of twitters slip by in the background until a keyword or thought pulls you in and you respond to it. The next thing you know you’ve helped someone with a problem in your area of expertise or they’ve helped you or you’ve shared a joke that titillates just two people on the face of the earth.
It is a way of connecting as if serendipity could be programmed.
Don’t be too bothered by it. Don’t try and read every twitter, just let it flow by*.
* Much the way you should treat RSS really.
