by Pa Rock
Tweeter
Some days writing a blog borders or being a joy, but at other times, more often than not it seems lately, the daily drudgery of coming up with something to fill a few paragraphs and trying to make it interesting to others is about as much fun as a good session of corporal self-mortification. There is one form of web-writing, however, that I enjoy without reservation: tweeting.
I discovered Twitter.com about a year ago and just this past week posted my 2,000th tweet. Most of those little gems of 140 characters or less were my own creations, but occasionally I "re-tweet" the gems of others. I am currently "following" the tweetage of 53 other individuals with a wide variety of interests, and 111 follow me - though Allah alone knows why!
I don't follow Charlie Sheen, but I understand that over three million people do. That is probably related to the same instinct that causes people to stand around and gawk at car wrecks!
The thing that I like about tweeting is the mental challenge of being brilliantly creative in a mere 140 characters. I also like crossword and logic puzzles.
Today there was a "quick vote" on the CNN.com page asking simply, "Do you tweet?" As of a few minutes ago 198,826 people had responded. Ninety-three percent of those (184,111) were not tweeters, while 7% (14,715) were. So it's not for everyone.
A clever sentence can kick the crap out of a whole page of nonsense.
See you on Twitter @PaRock.
Tweeter
Some days writing a blog borders or being a joy, but at other times, more often than not it seems lately, the daily drudgery of coming up with something to fill a few paragraphs and trying to make it interesting to others is about as much fun as a good session of corporal self-mortification. There is one form of web-writing, however, that I enjoy without reservation: tweeting.
I discovered Twitter.com about a year ago and just this past week posted my 2,000th tweet. Most of those little gems of 140 characters or less were my own creations, but occasionally I "re-tweet" the gems of others. I am currently "following" the tweetage of 53 other individuals with a wide variety of interests, and 111 follow me - though Allah alone knows why!
I don't follow Charlie Sheen, but I understand that over three million people do. That is probably related to the same instinct that causes people to stand around and gawk at car wrecks!
The thing that I like about tweeting is the mental challenge of being brilliantly creative in a mere 140 characters. I also like crossword and logic puzzles.
Today there was a "quick vote" on the CNN.com page asking simply, "Do you tweet?" As of a few minutes ago 198,826 people had responded. Ninety-three percent of those (184,111) were not tweeters, while 7% (14,715) were. So it's not for everyone.
A clever sentence can kick the crap out of a whole page of nonsense.
See you on Twitter @PaRock.
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