Best description of Twitter I’ve seen

April 13, 2007

There’s been a lot of buzz about Twitter in recent weeks - fueled by A-listers like Robert Scoble and Leo Laporte (although Leo has recently jumped ship to Jaiku - and I’m still not sure I really understand why), and although it’s been fun watching mainstream media try and get their heads around “the point of Twitter”, the best description I’ve seen yet came from fellow Twitterer, artistx:

Until Twitter I was only half alive! I only lived my life – now I share in loads of people’s lives. Seeing other perspectives – like reading hundreds of short novels every day. On the downside I haven’t done any work for weeks.

I just love the image created by the notion that each “Tweet” is a short novel. When explaining to people why I like Twitter, I’ve found that rather than try and verbalise what it’s about, it’s better to grab them by the scruff of the neck and shove them face first into the stream of consciousness that is Twittervision. It is, literally, like reading other peoples thoughts.

[tags]Twitter, Twittervision, Jaiku, microblog, microblogging[/tags]

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