Twitter… again -adactio.com/journal:
Everyone’s talking about Twitter, even the Wall Street Journal.
yeah no kidding. via adactio's lifestream dlcs marks I went to post on disambiguity re twitter -"ambient intimacy" and to post by kottke re twitter and in & around those to a bunch of others, esp as resulting fr sxsw it seems.
so I've dlcs marked (tagged 'web') a number of posts re twitter.

As usual, opinions are pretty polarised. Sometimes those poles swap over. The process goes something like this:
Signing up for Twitter.
This is stupid. I don’t get it.
Adding friends. What a pain!
Eating a cheese sandwich.
Trying to get some work done: getting distracted by Twitter.
@somebody: Really? Me too! Cool.
I love Twitter!

I’m surprised that Kathy Sierra doesn’t like Twitter seeing as it’s the classic example of creating passionate users.
Creating Passionate Users: Is Twitter TOO good?: Twitter is yet another--potentially more dramatic--contribution to the problems of always-on multi-tasking... you can't be Twittering (or emailing or chatting, of course) and simultaneously be in deep thought and/or a flow state. huh ~ int.
Disclaimer: I'm SO in the minority on this one... it looks like about a hundred-to-one in favor of Twitter, so I'm most likely way wrong on this one (but it doesn't stop me from trying).
And this post is mostly a mashup of a variety of earlier posts I've made on related subjects.
But as she freely admits:
I am not in the target audience for Twitter—I am by nature a loner.

The whole raison d’être behind Twitter comes from answering a simple question in the present tense:
What are you doing?

Adactio: Journal January 25th, 2007 - Whither Twitter?:
Twittering is like blogging: I would do it even if no-one was going to read it.
I don’t blog for other people. I don’t twitter for other people. I do both for myself.

right on.
but unhappily, cut&pasting fr this journal is not conveying his links - don't think I've sen that before - sth in his html?

oh. and. feel aware of a group ~ here: adactio, disambiguity, kathy sierra, graphpaper.