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Chris M. '12

Jun 19, 2009

MITwitter

Posted in: Life & Culture

Hello Interwebs, it's me Chris. As you can probably guess from the title, this has something to do with twitter. It is in fact a historic day for me, much like the day I bought my Mac, after being vehemently opposed to all things apple, I've shared my dislike and disinterest in the internet phenomena known as twitter. But if you were to go here, you'd see that's no longer true.

It does provide some nice advantages to traditional blogging. For one thing, it's easy to post cool things that happen that aren't worthy of a full blog post (like, for instance, announcing that I now have a twitter account), plus there's a lot of corporate and news companies adopting the structure, which is pretty cool as well. And the twitter phenomena seems to be gaining some clout. It just might be weird and obscure enough to be something really big(ger). Plus it's almost zen-like to compose your thoughts in 140 characters.

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It's good to see that I'm not the only one who recently changed my mind about Twitter. It's actually quite handy.

Posted by: Kristina '13 on June 19, 2009

I tried it for a while, but I got bored of constantly having to update. Who really cares about my boring life?

Posted by: Chris on June 19, 2009

(like, for instance, announcing that I know have a twitter account)

now*

Posted by: Anon Grammarian on June 19, 2009

I guess twitter is just one of those things you register for, have fun with for a while, then forget about and later get irritated when emails from it fill up the inbox.

Somehow on par with a google statement about Twitter which referred to Twitter as the poor man's blogging experience.

Or maybe google is worried twitter might overtake blogspot.

Posted by: Labib (?14) on June 19, 2009

Twitter's been quite active for a while wink

@Labib - I turned off the email function. I have a widget for Firefox where I can view twitters and post responses, and that's about it. (I also have Facebook set up to update my status with my twitters. I rarely update my Facebook status alone anymore...)

Posted by: Piper '12 on June 19, 2009

Hi webmaster! nmx

Posted by: Kazelyni on June 19, 2009

Why is it such an awful portmanteau?

Posted by: NYH on June 19, 2009

Hi webmaster! sxb

Posted by: Kazelzik on June 19, 2009

Hi webmaster! ttf

Posted by: Kazelump on June 19, 2009

Hi webmaster! ttf

Posted by: Snively on June 20, 2009

@Chris

I value your comments
besides your life can't be that boring
or can it?

Posted by: the eye on June 22, 2009

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Posted by: nataly on June 22, 2009

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Posted by: margaret on June 22, 2009

If you weren't so much fun to read, I'd lose some respect for you for giving into the dark side.

Posted by: Ashley on June 23, 2009

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