@ SXSW writing a post about Twitter
Like a number of my friends and colleagues here, I re-initiated my Twitter account at SXSW (here’s my profile). Having dry-tested it a few months ago without getting the aha, I figured I’d take advantage of the momentum it seems to be picking up here to see if I could make it useful.
Despite the fact that I can’t seem to get it to actually send SMS updates to my phone (probably a blessing given the volume of posts going around among the harder-core users), I am finding it useful as a way to update multiple people I’m trying to coordinate with simultaneously. (Not to mention fun.)
At a party last night, talk turned to the question of whether mobile was finally happening, given that here were a bunch of mid-to-late-30’s-plus year olds using their cell phones like a bunch of high-school students. My answer, from the 3rd beer party of the night I’d converged on with multiple different but overlapping friend groups, where 80’s hits were playing and people were running around in fur hats and underwear? Only because we’re behaving like them in the physical world.
March 12th, 2007 07:15
Hello Twitter (G-d)…It’s Me. I’m trapped at Club Deville in the rain…
Looks like Twitter is becoming ‘hot’ again, as evidenced by several blog posts including one from fellow Yahoo, Greg Cohn [Twitter status: Having a drink downstairs in the hotel bar.] For the uninitiated, Twitter is like Instant-messenger (IM) status…