Twitter

One of my few accomplishments over the last few weeks was to catch up on all the computer things I've wanted to check out. One of these things was Twitter.

I don't get it. For so many reasons...

In order to see what it is all about I had to set up an account. In case you want to "tweet" me or "follow" me my name (I guess this is what it's called) is @alrwalker. What does that mean? Why the @ in front of the name?

In less than an hour of signing up "Simon Bosely" was following me. Then I figured out that I could enable the accept or decline followers feature. Enabled. Since then Eva, Elroy and Flora have asked to follow me. I have also figured out that these "people" are really just spam and their tweets are newsreels.

I feel like I am learning and speaking a foreign language.

I am following 4 people (or entities): Regis and Kelly, Ellen, Martha Stewart, and Anderson Cooper. Most of their tweets are links to their websites and/or blogs. The only person who actually writes her own stuff is Kelly Ripa and honestly it kind of makes me feel like a stalker.

I'm thinking that this Twitter phase will not last long. I am going to keep the account until I get a new cell phone only because one can somehow set up the Twitter stuff onto the cell phone. And (gasp) I'm going to get a texting package on my new phone.

I know, pick your jaws up off the floor. I kinda like the texting thing. Maybe Twitter will be next.
Until then - Tweet me!