Twitter

From my usual post-early, pre-mainstream adopter standpoint, here are my thoughts on Twitter

1. The so called "A List" bloggers that never stop talking about it don't experience it in anything like the same way an everyday person does. On the inbound because they can't hope to see every update they might be interested in, and outbound because they can hit a far bigger audience.

2. Automated follow back. If I can feel the gesture of being followed wasn't human, I don't put any real stock in it, such as expecting my updates to be read. I'd almost rather these people didn't bother. The day any of them tweet back at something I say, my mind may change, but I doubt this will happen.

3. I would really love to use this service to communicate with my local and not so local non-Internet friends, but it's still way too early for them. If you're bored on Facebook, try clicking the "Friends" button at the top. As long as you have some friends, it's one of the most interesting things to do on there, and it's essentially a last item only version of Twitter.

4. Mobile updating is great. Mobile updates may as well be removed from the service. The Facebook application that updates my status with my latest tweet is simple and perfect. Maybe soon someone will ask me what "is twittering" means and i'll be able to get them on board.

Nothing new there, but hell, at least you know where I stand. That's why you read this, right? Hey did I just write a post without 2008 in the title? Impressive.