Twitter is an absurdly simple social networking site that asks you one absurdly simple question: What are you doing?
Its success amongst the geek community derives from the fact that it lowers the expectations of personal publishing to the point where talking about mindless ephemera - i.e. geek stuff - is almost justifiable.
So what are people doing? Well, check out Twittervision, a site that cleverly situates the viewer in amongst the global twittering.
It’s incredible, but strangely depressing. A sea of nothing.
Twitter would be good if there was a way to get it to ask you the question randomly, rather than only when it occurs to you to Twit. Ten times a day it would ask you without warning - what are you doing? That way people could learn something about their habits, perhaps plotting the Twits on some kind of chart. Is this possible? Does anyone know of a way to set up a random reminder?
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