Twitter, more than “What are you doing?”

When I first began using Twitter, I had no idea what I was supposed to post. I had no one following me, so I kind of figured, “what’s the point?” Eventually, I found out that people I knew in Second Life were Twitterers, so I began following some of them. I still had no idea what to post and never even really thought about using Twitter for conversations. I really was just saying what I was doing.

Over the past few months, I started following more people, and have had people follow me, and it’s been really interesting. There have been so many weird connections too. I will sometimes see people that I’m following make “@replies” to other people that I’m following, and I wonder how they know each other.

Most days on Twitter, I have conversations going on with a few people at a time. Today, I was thinking about how I’m using Twitter like an instant messenger program now. I guess an IM program would make a little more sense, but then I wouldn’t have access to all the people that I do. I can just click on the Public Timeline at any time and look for some new interesting people to follow.

Oh, one more thing…I now have some real life (I hate saying that) friends following me on Twitter. There is hope for us!