things that i like about twitter:

1. twhirl

2. meeting new people

3. ppl who might be too timid to blog, might not be afraid to twitter, so i think there are some new voices popping up. maybe?

4. a big reason why blogging is cool: it's easy to blog. it's easier to twitter.

5. conversations feel very natural on twitter

6. there is an excitement about twitter right now that you can feel that is similar to what it was like when i started blogging. it's got "new car smell". at least to me, since i've only been really engaged with it in the past few weeks.

7. going back to #5, it isn't just "what am i doing right now". it really is a conversation. you don't see that until you start to follow lots of other folks. if all you are doing is broadcasting and not following, you are missing out. that said, it IS a distraction. one i definitely have to turn off for long periods of the day if i want to get anything done.

did i mention twhirl? yes, i did! you can't beat it if you are twittering from a computer.

some things about twitter seem to fly in the face of intuition. for instance, "any one 140 character string can certainly be taken out of context". this is certainly true (and i'm glad i don't have to give a flying monkey about that), because of the fact that twitter IS an ongoing conversation. whenever you follow a new voice, you are potentially wading into several conversations you didn't know anything about. and if you wanted to pull something out of context, say for the generation of FUD or whatever. twitter could be a good source for that.

twitter is one of those things where you just have to do it to get it. the model is fascinating. one of those things where you think, why didn't someone think of this years ago? even though certain things about the model seem counter intuitive, it still just makes hella sense.

"There are no surprising facts, only models that are surprised by facts..."

my communication "model" is surprised. i haven't been surprised by anything since i got my head around the blogosphere.