Twittering

It's still weird for me how amazingly popular twitter has become. I first heard of it in the fall of 2007 while I was interning at a political advertising firm in DC. The intern in the cubicle adjacent to mine and I were talking about her upcoming trip to visit a friend in California. I was doing just fine at keeping up with the small talk until she mentioned that he was one of the founders of something called Twitter, that apparently I was supposed to be familiar with. The look on my face made it obvious that I wasn't. After a 5 minute spiel on the wonderfulness of twitter, I still wasn't sold. After 5 minutes poking around the website I was even more confused and less sure as to what the value was. I assumed that everyone else would think like me, it would die off in a year or two, so there was no reason for me to get involved.

Obviously, I was wrong. I'm still a little flummoxed by twitter, but I increasingly find myself in the minority. I increasingly find myself drawn into the twitter widgets on the side of others blogs, getting a little mini-blogging fix from their 140 character posts. I've even braved the main page once or twice, trying to understand how @ and # work after being drawn in by a very interesting, but one sided conversation on someones twitter page. After a few months of slowly wadding in, I think I might be willing to finally give this crazy thing a try, even if I am more than three years late. Please help a girl discover the joy of twitter by following me here or letting me know how I can follow you.