Thing #13 - Twitter

I'd heard of Twitter before but had never actually tried it; it never sounded appealing. Now that I've tried it ... well, I still don't really find it appealing. Trying to do this on any kind of regular basis would be one more distraction from whatever I'm trying to do. (Strictly speaking, any "tweet" that was really trying to honestly answer the question "what are you doing?" would have to say something like "I'm typing on Twitter.")

In a way, it reminds me of people who talk on their phones the whole time when they're supposed to be doing something else: the process of constantly talking about what they're doing would, I think, inevitably interfere with the main activity. At least Twitter might be less bothersome to others nearby.

I can't see this really fitting in with either my work or personal life; again, it would be mainly a distraction. I can see some value in libraries doing something like NLC_Reference does, but I can't help wondering if there might be better ways to do the same sort of thing.

One way I could imagine this being potentially useful would be for something like an online meeting between several people, all following each others' tweets, like a conference call via keyboarding. Is anyone using it this way?