I watched the Twitter video and found this inadvertently hilarious line (to me, anyway): "Life happens between blog posts and email!" Really?! Thank heavens my unrecorded moments are in fact, valid! :) But of course the goal of Twitter is to leave NO unrecorded moments--everything is of broadcast value. It reminds me of that documentary about Madonna (Truth or Dare, 1991), and Warren Beatty's acerbic crack (or words to this effect): "Why would you want to do anything off-camera?"
Anyway, given my snarky remarks, you no doubt guess that I won't be Twittering. My life just isn't interesting enough to tweet about, I fear. I mean, who cares if I'm having coffee or doing laundry? I do know many Congresspersons are doing this now, which makes me wonder, why the heck are they wasting my money doing THAT when they should be solving our economic crisis? But I digress.
Other than politicos, the only person I know who Twitters is a woman in my Youth & Media Literacy class, and I think she's doing it as a class project. I could see that this might be useful as a way for libraries and/or other institutions to give quick updates to interested folks, as Noel is doing on the YA page. Her clientele is definitely among the target audience for "tweets"!
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