Wondering about twitter

[redbird]

Every so often, I get email telling me that someone is now following me on twitter. Presumably they did a search, since I haven't actually been using the account.

What I'm wondering is, for those of you who do use it, what about it do you find useful? Not "What, in the abstract, can it do?" but "What do you, someone I know who also finds LiveJournal at least somewhat useful or appealing, like about twitter?"

Also, how much time do you spend following people, and how often do you find it necessary to check in? (We'll get into questions of appropriate tools for posting and/or following later, if I decide I want to do either/both of those things.)

Comments

[beetiger.livejournal.com]

I like it for micro-updates, and use it effectively as my status updater on Facebook as well. Anything that can't be said just as well in 140 characters goes to LJ. It's almost always a mood status as much as anything else. Occasionally I link to articles when I don't feel much to say beyond "here, look at this" is needed. Small jokes are good there too.

I don't send my tweets to LiveJournal, and prefer that others don't either.

I use twitterfox, which pops new tweets up while I am online, and I glance at them. If something requires following links or following back conversations, and I'm interested, it takes a few minutes.