When news broke this week that Demi Moore was addicted to Twitter I thought to myself, perhaps it’s time I check this deal out. I mean, after all, Britney uses Twitter, the President uses Twitter, Ryan Seacrest uses Twitter, so why don’t I?
I actually registered for the account months ago, I posted on it twice, and then I never looked at it again. This week, though, I finally decided to come back and give it another shot.
I’ve yet to determine the exact purpose of Twitter. If nobody is actually following your account, then it seems somewhat pointless. You are literally sending out random messages to the vast expanse of cyberspace 140 characters at a time, but nobody will ever see them.
So with no followers, what is the purpose? In a day and time when we are already devoting our attention to MySpace, Facebook, personal web sites, personal blogs, and whatever other wonderful social internet creations are out there that I don’t even know anything about, do we really need one more? Maybe we do.
The thing I love about Twitter is the restriction of it. By limiting my “tweets” to 140 characters or less, it eliminates the crap. It forces me to get to the point and get there in a hurry. I can offer an insight into my day, my life, my thoughts, my emotions, whatever I like… and I can do it without all the fluff. That, to me, is kind of cool.
It would seem rather contradictory for a guy who writes a daily blog to say such a thing. After all, I write several hundred words here each day and hope that you’ll grant me a few minutes of time to read them. But what I’ve determined is there can be a time and place for both.
What I have realized is that you can learn just as much about a person from 140 character tweets, as you can from 500 word blog posts. The interesting thing, though, is that both insights, while not even remotely equal in quantity, are fascinatingly equal in quality.
Read my blog each day and you’ll slowly learn about who I am on a deeper level. Sometimes it’s just random thoughts. Sometimes there is a greater purpose. Read my tweets, and you’ll quickly learn about who I am more on the surface. It’s insight on both ends of the spectrum.
So, if you want to get to know me better, here is your chance. Follow blog my, and see what I think. Follow my tweets, and see what I do. We’ll get to know each other better a blog and a tweet at a time!
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