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I really don't get Twitter. It seems to me that it's for Americans and celebrities and not too many others. I've got a theory that it's caught on so quickly with Americans because they have missed out on the texting phenomenon - I think I read somewhere that some US networks charge for receiving texts as well as sending them, which would have held the wannabe serial SMS senders back from their full potential. Of course, I could have that wrong which would completely undermine my argument.

In conversations with friends we'll all been puzzled as to why sign up to a new service when Facebook offers exactly the same concept - and your friend lists are already in place. With Twitter I guess you've got more access to celebrity 'twits' (is that what a post is called? Or is it a 'tweet'?) and a far more amusing and accidently offensive way to describe 'status updating'. Teehee. I guess that as a highly focused application its development has been remarkably fast, which gives it one up on the social networking giant Facebook.

I noticed that LinkedIn has since jumped on the bandwagon and added tweet-like status updates. I've yet to see anyone use it actively but it's early days yet.

As for the celebrity side to Twitter, I read a post called 'Twitter, Tweeter, Twatter, Celebrity Fodder' from GlossLip that puts an amusing take on it. It's an obsession with instant ego-boosting and self-gratification, apparently. Read it here.

Mostly though, I spend enough time managing my emails and Facebook, reading blogs and updating my photos, that I'm quite happy to ignore twittering for a little while at least. It's hard enough keeping this blog active!

Pretty Sketchy

Great inspiration! I guess I'll dig out a sketchbook. I think it applies to my blog too - the writing doesn't have to be perfect, I just need to write.

Thanks to swissmiss for the discovery of this article.