Twitter

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Hey,

Is it just me or does there seem to have been an explosion of followers on Twitter lately (see http://twitterholic.com/ )? Has Twitter just reached critical mass or is there something else I am missing?

I don't post from my account (so I wont bother giving its name) but do read online and with Twitterrific, mostly the Diggnation crew (Kevin Rose, Alex Albrecht, Prager and Glenn), Stephen Fry and ffoward, plus reading the odd other ones I find.

So how many of you are Twitter users? How do you use it (website, text, mobile, iPhone, twitterrific etc.)? Who do you follow? Whats your account name?

p.s for those of you scratching your tiny little minds read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter and here the homepage http://twitter.com/home

 

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Yet you read a thread about it on a computing forum? conceptually I dont see twitter as any different to a discussion forum, just using a different medium
Only small children and the largely technically illiterate and calvin harris use it to update their minute by minute activities, the majority of people use it to communicate something of interest to people who are interested in what they have to say, whatever that may be.

Bingo, in the end its just a shortform blog. I don't check updates religiously, once a week or so but a lot of the stuff that is posted is interesting, linking to things that I find cool, like these http://www.ohgizmo.com/2009/02/17/orbitwheels-are-like-a-monowheelinline-skate-mashup/ from Kevin Rose. But hey, some people don't like it, guess they havn't found a poster on there that they find interesting yet.