Twitter is like a blog post, but smaller and faster. Twitter is like an IM status message, even when you're away from IM. Twitter is like sending a text message to all of your friends without even trying.
I'm actually kind of shocked that none of my 115 LiveJournal friends, 52 Facebook friends, 250+ regular website visitors, or any of the other random passersby to any of my online social hangouts decided to sign up for Twitter when I mentioned it a while ago.
I understand if none of them end up using it long-term. I mean, after all, it's not very fun or useful if you don't have any other friends that use the service too. However, I figured at least a handful of people would try it out and see how it worked and what it did.
Twitter is cool and "worth considering":http://www.dashes.com/anil/2007/02/14/consider_twitte.
First, of all, you can keep up with your friends with little to no effort at all. And, of course, they can keep up with you too. It makes party coordination, hangout planning, and flash mobbing dead simple.
But, it can do even more than that.
Get a behind the scenes look at the Oscars as "Defamer.com":http://defamer.com/ uses Twitter to give real-time updates from inside. (twitter: "defamer":http://twitter.com/defamer/)
Get "CNN Breaking news on Twitter":http://www.martinstabe.com/blog/2007/01/02/cnn-breaking-news-on-twitter/ (twitter: "cnnbrk":http://twitter.com/cnnbrk)
Syncronize your Twitter messages (known as Tweets) with your "Windows Live Messenger":http://messenger.msn.com/ Status using "Twessenger":http://kunal.kundaje.net/twessenger/.
Get "BBC News headlines from twitter":http://menti.net/?p=89 (twitter: "bbcnews":http://twitter.com/bbcnews)
Put a "Twitter Widget":http://www.velvet.id.au/twitter-wordpress-sidebar-widget/ on the sidebar of your Wordpress blog and share those quick one off messages throughout the day with your current readers.
Let your Twitter followers know every time you update your blog with "Twitter Updated":http://blog.victoriac.net/?p=87, a plugin for WordPress.
Let Twitter know when you've completed certain chores or tasks using "MyChores":http://www.mychores.co.uk/.
Integrate it with your "30 boxes":http://30boxes.com/ account so you'll always remember what you were doing and when.
Even "LifeHacker likes Twitter":http://www.lifehack.org/articles/lifehack/twitter-use-it-productively.html.
Give it a shot. The worst case is you'll end up with yet another "Useless Account":http://uselessaccount.com/. However, maybe you'll actually find it useful or at least interesting and fun.
"TWITTER ME":http://twitter.com/revjim
