Better things to Twitter about
Always a fan of wasting a bit of time, I've continued to use my Twitter account in a vaccum where no one's really watching. However, in all this time I have come up with a few better ideas for what you can do with Twitter other than answer the rather lame question, "What are you doing?"
- Stuck... In... My... Head! Post the lyric you're repeating over and over from the song that's stuck in your head. Inflict it on someone else.
- Look, A Three Headed Monkey! You've just seen something on the street that you can't believe. Make a note of it. I've also tried applying this to links to things from the web, when I don't want to pop them into del.icio.us
- [ lightbulb ] Something incredibly insightful (or so you think) has just occurred to you. Declare it to the world. I suspect this becomes even more fun when chemically altered. And it will probably give your friends more things to make fun of you for.
- Punch the Clock For a while, I was using twitter to log my time, since our time clock web app cares mostly about the time you started working on a project and the time you finished, rather than just allowing you to enter a certain number of hours on a certain task. Useful, but boring to your readers.
- Invectives Need to curse at the heavens? Curse at Twitter!
- The Murakami Approach There's a Haruki Murakami story called "The Fall of the Roman Empire, The 1881 Indian Uprising, Hitler's Invasion of Poland, And The Realm of Raging Winds" and you should read it. In the Twitter implementation, this story would be four twitters, followed up the following weekend by four blog posts. If it doesn't make sense now, read the story and it probably will.
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