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

[avram]

I actually don't find it that useful. I grabbed an account back when I first heard about it because they were free, and my usual strategy for such things (since someone else got to be "avram" on LiveJournal) is to grab an account under my usual user name on the off chance that it might one day become useful and stash the password info in my Palm.

I'd probably post more often if I had a modern cell phone. (I think of Twitter as "blogging for phones".)

If I still worked near Fifth Ave and 18th St, I'd subscribe to the City Bakery's Twitter feed, where they announce what's just come out of the oven.