Chris M. '12 | June 19, 2009
"MITwitter"
Hello Interwebs, it's me Chris. As you can probably guess from the title, this has something to do with twitter. It is in fact a historic day for me, much like the day I bought my Mac, after being vehemently opposed to all things apple, I've shared my dislike and disinterest in the internet phenomena known as twitter. But if you were to go here, you'd see that's no longer true.
It does provide some nice advantages to traditional blogging. For one thing, it's easy to post cool things that happen that aren't worthy of a full blog post (like, for instance, announcing that I now have a twitter account), plus there's a lot of corporate and news companies adopting the structure, which is pretty cool as well. And the twitter phenomena seems to be gaining some clout. It just might be weird and obscure enough to be something really big(ger). Plus it's almost zen-like to compose your thoughts in 140 characters.
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It's good to see that I'm not the only one who recently changed my mind about Twitter. It's actually quite handy.
Posted by: Kristina '13 on June 19, 2009 12:41 PM
I tried it for a while, but I got bored of constantly having to update. Who really cares about my boring life?
Posted by: Chris on June 19, 2009 01:05 PM
(like, for instance, announcing that I know have a twitter account)
now*
Posted by: Anon Grammarian on June 19, 2009 02:23 PM
I guess twitter is just one of those things you register for, have fun with for a while, then forget about and later get irritated when emails from it fill up the inbox.
Somehow on par with a google statement about Twitter which referred to Twitter as the poor man's blogging experience.
Or maybe google is worried twitter might overtake blogspot.
Posted by: Labib (?14) on June 19, 2009 03:10 PM
Twitter's been quite active for a while ;)
@Labib - I turned off the email function. I have a widget for Firefox where I can view twitters and post responses, and that's about it. (I also have Facebook set up to update my status with my twitters. I rarely update my Facebook status alone anymore...)
Posted by: Piper '12 on June 19, 2009 09:21 PM
Hi webmaster! nmx
Posted by: Kazelyni on June 19, 2009 09:43 PM
Why is it such an awful portmanteau?
Posted by: NYH on June 19, 2009 09:54 PM
Hi webmaster! sxb
Posted by: Kazelzik on June 20, 2009 12:06 AM
Hi webmaster! ttf
Posted by: Kazelump on June 20, 2009 12:06 AM
Hi webmaster! ttf
Posted by: Snively on June 20, 2009 07:00 PM
@Chris
I value your comments
besides your life can't be that boring
or can it?
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Posted by: margaret on June 22, 2009 07:40 PM
If you weren't so much fun to read, I'd lose some respect for you for giving into the dark side.
Posted by: Ashley on June 23, 2009 12:41 PM
