So, I recently started using Twitter. I haven't really formed a strong opinion about it yet, but as with many heavily hyped things, it seems to be over loved by some and too denigrated by others. I think a lot of opinion has been formed as a reaction to the behaviour of the user base, rather than the tool itself. I'm somewhat reminded of Perl (which I like) and MySpace (which I don't). Perl doesn't have to be line noise, MySpace doesn't have to look like a revival of the 90s' web aesthetic as implemented by a brain-damaged monkey, and you don't have to tweet about your bowel movements. But these things are easy enough to avoid in your own use, and as for everybody else, well... hell is other people. (Say what you will of inanity on Twitter, it can be entertaining.)

Personally, I started using it to address the problem of keeping people reasonably updated about what's going on without flooding this blog with short and largely insubstantial entries. Twitter seemed like a natural fit. Of course, this makes me less likely to update here with any reasonable frequency, but it's not like I was doing that much before.