Twit Me

I think the most accurate description of twitter is to liken it to away messages on IM. You know, everybody comes up with a clever new away message every five minutes. Even though this meant you were actually sitting right there on IM, thus negating the "away" part. The other half of it is that everybody would constantly patrol their buddy lists checking friends' away messages to see what's new -- also every five minutes.

At least this is how it was for me from middle-school to college on AIM. The same thing happened after Facebook came out (status-stalking). What a great way to waste time. At least with Twitter it's more interactive. And the neat things people have done with the API, like controlling their home lighting... [http://www.oreillynet.com/mac/blog/2007/03/twittering_your_home.html]