Twitter and you

I’ve started to play a bit with a service called Twitter.  The basic premise is that the service keeps track of short (<160 characters or so), one-line updates on what one is doing at the time.  They intentionally make it trivial to update, allowing updates from text messages from cell phones, many different chat clients, and (of course) through a web interface.  The text message update system seemed most intriguing to me, since I almost always have my phone on me.  This seemed like an interesting way to provide some sort of “status” that multiple people could see.  Twitter supports “following” people.  A follower gets updates (text message, email, chat, or manually through the web interface) on the followed person’s status in near-real-time.  I thought this was all pretty neat, so I decided to give it a shot and see whether I can keep it up long enough to make it useful.  We’ll see how that goes.  For the moment, you can find my status in the right-hand sidebar here.  If Jenny joins up with this at some point, I’ll add one for her, too. 

jonathan