Atwitter 

I have to admit, when I first learned about the service almost two years ago, I admit I couldn't see myself ever using Twitter. Granted, considering the source , it's no wonder I reached the conclusion. I didn't need a service that would allow me ultimately pointless sharing of my thoughts with the rest of the online world. That's what this blog is for.

Then, some two months later, I spent a weekend in London. Which involved an experience with the collapse of the public transport system in full bloom. What was supposed to be an hour's trip was turned into four hours of jumping on and off trains, most of them wrong ones.

By that time I had forgotten about Twitter.

In retrospect, that was unfortunate. When I again started thinking about it, after a do-you-use-Twitter post on a completely unrelated forum, my first response was, I have this blog, I can post to it from anywhere, I don't need a dedicated micro blog. On the other hand, tweets can be made by text messages and are limited to 140 characters. While I technically can post to Blogger from my phone, I've never found it to be a pleasant experience, and when one's using a 12-key pad, being limited by the character count is actually a good thing. Sending a text is also quicker and cheaper than connecting to the internet and loading the web interface, especially while in roaming.

I was again reminded that it might be nice to have a geeky way to vent my frustration during the November business trip to Rimini, when it took three hours to find an open restaurant. So, after a do-you-use-Twitter thread on a completely unrelated forum, and with another trip to London looming in the near future, I succumbed and opened an account in February.

It was around this time that the tech press started writing about Twitter intensively. Then more intensively. Then even more intensively. From the start of this year to this day, the torrent of Twitter articles continues unabated. Articles on how to use Twitter. Articles on how to not use Twitter. Articles on how Twitter isn't making money. On how it might make money. On how it can't make money. On how it's being bought by Google. On how it isn't. On how it is again. On how it finally isn't, for now. On how viruses spread through it. On who you should follow. On who you shouldn't. On who's real and who isn't. On how Oprah is starting to use it. On that guy who's married to Demi Moore and his seven-digit follower count. On how celebrity involvement will help Twitter soar to new heighths. On how it will kill it. On what kind of style one should employ when tweeting... About any imaginable topic, and a few unimaginable ones!

And there's no sign of this stopping! If you think that after the Approved by Oprah stamp has been put on it, that is the end, you're wrong. Just today, I went through the four PC World newsletters that have accumulated over this long weekend, and in them, I found eight articles about Twitter (and one about how Facebook is trying to be like Twitter). Eight! The topics are as follows:

1. searching Twitter;
2. Twitter users getting bored with it very quickly (mostly because they're boring people);
3. the afore-mentioned users 'not getting it', and what they should do to start 'getting it';
4. Twitter being just a fad;
5. an editor living without Twitter for two weeks (oh, horror, absolute horror!);
6. a hacker breaking into Twitter;
7. a re-post of #3 under the title of 'Twitter Controversy';
8. and improving one's Twitter writing style.
   

Sweet flower of carrot. If I ever thought there was no topic that I could find more annoying than the iPhone, I was horribly wrong.

There's only one thing (aside from everything I've written above) I can say about this... NOBODY GIVES A FUCK!