Twittering Life

Lately I've been twittering away my blog posts and interesting finds into small snippets via text, tweetie, the web and mostly tweetdeck. The latter app is great because it allows you to easily group people you follow into various lists and see their updates at once vertically and horizontally left to right. While tweeting isn't as evergreen as blogging, it's useful in having a conversation with others in semi real-time. You're more in touch with what people are doing and thinking about moment to moment. Some say it's not representative of reality but my assumption is time is a commodity and you're spending a portion of it tweeting so it must have some level of importance. In the sample of people I follow, I don't see too many updates on what they had for lunch but rather hyperlinks to articles that pique my interest. Twitter obviously has its place in both thinking and doing time for a lot of people. Though like most social media on the internet, it connects those already connected. Those with internet access, those who have time, those who accrue marketing and financial benefits from such an app. There's definitely a set group of people who are also more likely to think Twitter is useful. It's not the doctors slaving away all day in the OR, not the teachers in classrooms, not the construction workers fixing our highways. I'm not sure how, like Facebook, it plays into our overall existence, but for now I'm enjoying the fact that it exists.