For the same reasons I hate people who don’t smoke, I hate doing tech reviews because first, it’s totally boring and not cool, and second it’s not going to die of cancer.
But seeing how much everybody’s talking about Twitter lately, I guess I’ll have to make an exception. The site describes twitter as:
A global community of friends and strangers answering one simple question: What are you doing? Answer on your phone, IM, or right here on the web!
And in a vastly tech-driven, socially dysfunctional world where people would rather touch plastic keys than converse with other people, Twitter’s value proposition is a rather attractive one.
Much like its predecessors, IRC and CB radio, Twitter is a venue teeming with reverse voyeurs whose chatter makes it obvious that they want nothing more than to be spied on intimately; hoping that someone will take notice of their digital thoughts kinda like a person wishing someone would peep through the open window while thay take a dump.
Not a novel concept at all, but the fun in Twitter lies in the fact that it takes voyeurism to a whole new level by allowing users to get updates on their friends via text messages sent to their mobile phones.
Much like the blogosphere, the Twitter community tends to follow the Tweets of A-listers like Robert Scoble, Jason Calacanis and Steve Rubel more because by God, if they’re A-listers their opinions must matter more in the grand scheme of things right?
With that said, I’d like to say that aside from the minor nuisance of getting more than 30 tweets on your phone when you wake up telling you what Calacanis ate for dinner or Scoble’s incessant meta-tweeting, I’m totally hooked on Twitter. So if you’d like to receive real-time updates on my life and the lives of the other Man Blog community members—updates like these:
Mikey
Pau
Ade
Liz
Thor
Steel
Benj
Miss Diss Anything
Kthx!
Mike "Fucking" Villar
"a Manila-based blogger made famous by his Atrocities of Friendster series, a regular feature he publishes on his blog where he mercilessly criticizes and mocks pictures of ugly people he stumbles upon on popular social networking site, Friendster. Although a lot of people are offended by what he writes, long-time readers of his blog regard him as a brilliant satire writer."
-Taken from my WikiBios page
