{"id":3609,"date":"2008-06-03T21:01:08","date_gmt":"2008-06-04T04:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/?p=3609"},"modified":"2008-06-03T21:01:08","modified_gmt":"2008-06-04T04:01:08","slug":"show-us-your-tweets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/2008\/06\/03\/show-us-your-tweets\/","title":{"rendered":"Show Us Your Tweets!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Spent the last two weeks in the weeds at work, with no one to blame but myself. And this coincided with my discovery that Twitter<\/a> is actually pretty fun. Thus, I spent the latter half of May writing 140-character posts over there instead of 800-word posts over here.<\/p>\n

When Twitter was all the rage a year ago, I was mystified by it’s appeal<\/a>. For those unawares, Twitter is \/ was supposedly a mechanism by which you could keep friends appraised of your current activities. You fill out a field entitled “What are you doing?” at the top of the Twitter website<\/a>, hit update, and your status is sent to your friends in the form of an update to their twitter feed, a message to their IM client, or a text to their cell phone. Thus, you get a up-to-the-second running commentary on what all your acquaintances are up to.<\/p>\n

Which raises the question: who the the hell would want that? I prefer to have no object permanence concerning my friends, content to believe that they only truly exist when in my company.<\/p>\n

Fortunately, some jokers figured out that Twitter is the near perfect medium for one-liners and, if you set up your feed correctly, you can have unlimited wit of the “brevity is the soul of” variety at your disposal . (Or, as Kottke recently put it<\/a>, “My Twitter friends stream is … open mic night at the Comedy Barn.”).<\/p>\n

Naturally, I was compelled to join in the merriment. Here are some of my recent Tweets:<\/p>\n