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that may work for people who are at their computers a lot, at least, enough to IM, but say for example, I get off work, away from the computer, I go to walk out to some place i'm gigging for the night, exciting things happen, or, changes of plans occur, impromptu parties, etc. Things I can't be bothered to call 100 or so people to update with. Anyone who is "following" me on my twitter is also given the option to receive my updates and reply to them via text messaging on their cell phone. (it's actually pretty easy) (double nice is the fact that youc an set "hours" for it to not send you updates (ahh my phone is buzzing at 4am cuz shauk isn't asleep yet! damn you twitter! well, yeah you can just turn that off)
I dunno, i was off the computer for easily a chunk of time exceeding 8 hours, but the twittering was still going strong both too and from me, and I can't say that happens with myspace/LJ/other online thingies.
I think it's pretty nice, the thing about being social on IM/AIM whatever is it usually involves 2 people being completely "stationary" and not out and about "living" their life. seems like with this, you could be up on top of the mountain, conquering a wicked trail, and twitter about it, while your friends are at a convention, or eating at a new restaurant and basically you're simultaneously having a great time, or inspiring the people who AREN'T to get off their ass and start working on that.
personally, I've found this twitter thing to be kind of a kick in the pants, if I don't have something interesting to write, i'm doing it wrong. It's making me wanna do stuff that I wouldn't normally have been motivated to try doing.
As I said, if my life isn't interesting enough for me to write about to some extent, then it spurs me to change this.
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