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Thu
May
17
2007
OMG 1'M ON TW1TTER!
I don’t exactly know why (yet), but I finally succumbed to the Twittering masses. Because I simply don’t have enough time-sucking vortexes, I suppose, as you can tell by the vast number of posts on this site recently.
I can be found at twitter.com/reidstott (apparently you only get to use “photodude” as a username if you’re an early adopter). I expect to offer nothing … but oddities, random thoughts, and other non-constructive offerings. But mostly nothing. I currently have no followers, and I have one friend: Stephen Colbert, who has somehow managed to make his Twitter page look like a MySpace monstrosity.
But their search function is gone, and it’s hard to track down people that I know are on there. If you have an account, leave a comment and let me know. Or if, like me, you’re still slightly embarrassed that you have an account, email me, and it will be our secret. I want to help make the Twitter experience as useless as possible for as wide a circle of people as I can manage.
Thank you for your support.
Published 01:43PM, Thu, May 17 2007
Category: Internet My Life
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Yet? I think the fact we’re both wondering “not sure why I’m messing with this trendy thang” pretty much confirms the fact we are.
Perhaps I should just speak for myself. I suspect it is my curmudgeonly and/or sarcastic nature that will come out best in a 140 characters or less medium.
I last logged into the thing two months ago. I have no idea what it’s utility is or why there’s a fascination with it.
Utility? None I can see. Except as a way for me to insert a short snarky comment like this as a special bubble within the site redesign I’m working on now.
I’m always looking for new ways to inflict my snark on others.
I don’t get it. But I’m older than most.
I’m going to consult my 16-year-old daughter.
I’m going to consult my 16-year-old daughter.
Why not? My soon-to-be-graduated-from-HS daughter manages my Facebook and MySpace pages, which exist solely so that I can connect with my performing group’s pages. And I would imagine that I will end up letting her keep track of my Twitter page as well.
About the only ones I maintain on my own are the ones on LiveJournal and Blogspot.
reidstott: Say what you want about Obama's politics, but no one has spoken about America with such sincere inspiration since, well, Ronald Reagan.
Not sure why we’re doing this… Are we curmudgeons yet?