Using Twitter to Review Twitter

Twitter is the latest Silicon Valley plaything — IM for grownups, or "status microblogging" if you want to be all jargony about it. The service, from Blogger founder Evan Williams’ company Obvious Corp., blew up at SXSW last week. But how do you find out what it’s all about without, you know, actually using it? […]

Tamagotchi
Twitter
is the latest
Silicon Valley plaything -- IM for grownups, or "status microblogging" if you want to be all jargony about it. The service, from
Blogger founder Evan Williams' company Obvious
Corp.
, blew up at SXSW last week. But how do you find out what it's all about without, you know, actually using it? Here's how, you foot-dragging
Luddite: just read 10
Zen Monkeys' Twitter review
, which uses Twitter to liveblog the reviewing process, and in the process nicely captures Twitter's combination of uselessness and crack-like addictiveness. All you folks pontificating about how
how useful Twitter can be, or Twitter has limited functionality outside of a conference? Yeah, I bet you didn't like
Tamagotchi either.