{"id":31,"date":"2009-03-17T21:07:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-18T02:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.allegedlyinteresting.com\/2009\/03\/aporetic.html"},"modified":"2009-03-17T21:07:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-18T02:07:00","slug":"aporetic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allegedlyinteresting.com\/?p=31","title":{"rendered":"Aporetic"},"content":{"rendered":"

As the more observant of you would have noticed, I’ve recently started using Twitter<\/a>. On Japh<\/a>‘s recommendation I signed up for an account and followed a few people I knew were using it.<\/p>\n

Then I waited for the awesome.
The awesome didn’t come.<\/p>\n

Initially, I was quite confused – “What is the point of this? I only know of a few people who use this service and subsequently the stream of information is very very slow. Less of a twitter, more of a dribble. Isn’t this just Facebook with less functionality?”
I stuck with it though. I looked through the list of people followed by friends of mine and slowly my own list grew. I was adding more and more people I knew, thought were interesting or who were famous. <\/p>\n

I wasn’t sold on the service until this morning. I checked Twitter and found a ‘Tweet’ from Mike Krahulik<\/a> (aka Gabe of Penny Arcade<\/a> fame) letting his followers know that he was broadcasting live on UStream<\/a>. I followed his link and was able to watch him drawing the upcoming comic live<\/span> while he responded to our sidebar chat questions by handwriting answers in the whitespace, then erasing them. He followed all of this up with a Q&A session which entailed us asking questions, while he typed his answers into a blank Word document.<\/p>\n

The thing that Twitter affords is a connectedness to people who you previously considered unapproachable. I assume this won’t last – you used to be able to do the same thing with email. Perhaps it will? I don’t know.<\/p>\n

If you care (unlikely), you can follow my updates by signing up for a Twitter account yourself, or by checking my sidepanel right here on my blog. If you’re a feed reader and haven’t seen the sidepanel, you can even sign up to Twitter RSS feeds on a per-account basis by viewing the desired person<\/a>‘s profile.<\/p>\n

I’m not 100% sold on it, but I’ll give it more time. Impress me, Twitter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As the more observant of you would have noticed, I’ve recently started using Twitter. On Japh‘s recommendation I signed up for an account and followed a few people I knew were using it. Then I waited for the awesome.The awesome didn’t come. Initially, I was quite confused – “What is the point of this? I … <\/p>\n

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