Thing 21 Twitter

At least I knew roughly what Twitter was--for the tv ad that says a certain percentage of people don't. I looked at the links and videos and tried doing searches on Twitter, but I think I need more convincing on this web 2.0 application. Most of the twits (tweets) that showed up on my searches made little sense to me and seemed to consist of links to other short posts or other websites. Maybe this is something that one just has to plunge into to appreciate.

I suppose keeping up a running commentary with someone with whom one was working on a project would make sense, though I'm not sure the immediacy seems that vital--wouldn't email or blogs work. This first look at Twitter just struck me as a lot of people who either felt their every move was so important that they had to broadcast it to the world, or that they were so lonely they were trying to reach out to anyone who would listen.

There have been reports on the news of employers who check the Twitter posts of potential employees as part of their selection process which would suggest to me that one should be a bit cautious about what they decide to share with the virtual world, implying that perhaps taking a little bit of time to consider how one might be perceived based on their cyberspace persona would be prudent.

Maybe in time I will appreciate this application more, but this introduction to it has not convinced me that it is anything that I really need to focus upon.