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Twitter – I finally get it

Some of you may have noticed the Twitter feed on the right. This is a brand new, albeit late in early adopter terms, addition to my online life. For the longest time, I really wondered what the whole point of Twitter was. People just went on and on about the phenomenon and I never quite got it. Why on earth would anyone be interested in being notified about what I am up to, every moment of my life?

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Twitter Updates

  • Posting from jstweet on the iPhone, my new Javascript based Twitter client. Any beta testers interested? 2 hours ago
  • Javascript Twitter client coming along very nicely. Lots of challenges but worth the effort. 1 day ago
  • Expect a blog post on iframe and XHR nonsense soon. This cross scripting restriction has totally turned me off on web mashups. 2 days ago
  • Ridiculous how much effort I've put into figuring out consistent iframe behavior across browsers and cross domain security restrictions. 2 days ago
  • TV.com available only in the US. Ridiculous, the rest of the world is a huge market, wake up media companies! 1 week ago
  • Sorry, Pandora is not available in my country. Hmm... 1 week ago
  • RelevantKnowledge crapware was hanging my Vista system on login, got it from some video cutter tool, wasted 2 hours of my life debugging. 2 weeks ago
  • Created a dummy Twitter account for blogs not on Twitter already. Finally, all my Google Reader feeds are here. Twitterfeed rocks @twfeed. 2 weeks ago
  • Just restored a file with Dropbox, was too simple. Perfect for programming, can easily revert to older versions. 3 weeks ago
  • @scobelizer How do you to follow info not on Twitter? E.g. my friend's blog or Flickr stream? Create fake accounts and use Twitterfeed? 3 weeks ago
  • Just tried @Crashplan at home, still unable to connect. Server down? Not a good sign especially when I'm evaluating and ready to pay. 3 weeks ago
  • Just setup Crashplan, unable to create a login, claims network issues. Would have been interesting to try out. http://crashplan.com 3 weeks ago