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Information…knowledge power…global communications…blah, blah, blah. Remember those buzz words? Forget it! It’s mostly social networking now. My Space, Facebook, blogging, IM, texting, and now Twitter. Jaiku is similar to Twitter and what these services do (if you don’t already know) is basically offer users the ability to do micro-blogging. You only send your thoughts to your friends via text messages (limited to 140 charcters), and this allows you to say, um, brilliant things like the following:
“Getting excited for life on the West Coast–the last place I ever thought I would live.”
 “Weeding through a massive pile of receipts. “
 “Playing poker.”
“Had to drop the wife’s van off at the mechanic. Now I’m finally at work. blah…”
And they said blogging was stupid! These “tweets” (i.e., messages) go to your all of your friends in your network. Oh, and they can also “tweet” with you. So, if you want everyone to know how great your lunch is, or that you have a bad case of garlic burps, they can get that breaking news at same time.  Thrilling, eh?Â
I heard an NPR program on this service featuring a group of friends who were asked to try Twitter and report back. Now, these folks were not interested in “tweeting,” but gave it a try just to see what would happen. And what did happen? As you might have guessed by now, many were hooked and continued tweeting.
Since I don’t have unlimited texting built into my cell phone service, I’d have to pay 10 cents per “tweet,” so I’m not going to jump on that trend anytime soon. But I have to admit that I’m curious if Twitter and Jaiku are as addictive as they say it is.
Have any of you tried Twitter or Jaiku yet?
–PK
J
May 9, 2007 at 1:43 pmBoy, does THAT sound like a time suck! But yeah, probably addictive as hell.
Cherry
May 9, 2007 at 2:57 pmI actually found it amuzing to sit on the twitter homepage and hit refresh to see the new tweets. I think I did that for about 10 minutes the first time I found twitter. I haven’t been back since.
ML
May 9, 2007 at 6:07 pmIt seems like everyone’s lives are “a twitter” Not my cup o’tea mate 🙂
Beenzzz
May 9, 2007 at 8:39 pmI was just thinking about the whole twitter thing today, then I did something else. It’s too much work. Blah……….
Py Korry
May 9, 2007 at 9:27 pmNice Twitter message, Beenzzz. 🙂
mcglinch
May 10, 2007 at 6:07 ami use twitter/jaiku to announce new doodles on my blog — i don’t look at others’ twwets and rarely tweet the other boring bits of my life.
Lalapunci
May 10, 2007 at 7:53 amI lost my cell phone, so I haven’t been able to twitter. I agree with J, it is a time suck.
Jason
May 10, 2007 at 8:03 amI haven’t yet tried Twitter. I’m resisting it – trying to fight my urges to be even more “connected” than I already am.
Gina
May 10, 2007 at 8:57 amBlogging already takes up mucho time, I can’t imagine texting people whenever I eat breakfast.
And really, I would only really care about learning about Hubba-hubba’s day, and he is way too busy to do something like that.
Maya's Granny
May 10, 2007 at 10:24 amNow I do feel old. Is the name supposed to suggest a flock of birds sitting in a tree twittering away?
sneaker
May 11, 2007 at 4:20 pmNo, it is new to me. Sounds as about as exciting as watching the toilet flush. What ever happened to talking to people face to face. I guess that went down the toilet.
lalunas
May 11, 2007 at 4:25 pmoh, i commented under sneaker…by mistake…
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