Do you Twitter?

I started using Twitter on a whim last fall.  I signed up and then sat back staring at a blank screen.  

I was there before some of the cool kids, really! I had to find friends and followers. 

Around the time of the election last fall I enjoyed the conversation-like nature of Twitter. It was like you were in a room with all of your friends and acquaintances sharing the same experience and making little comments to each other when in reality I was hundreds and maybe thousands of miles away and hadn't even met most of them face to face. 

Like all things Internet, Twitter is addictive.

If you follow me on Twitter you notice that I use it in spurts.  I'm silent for days except for a minor tweet about going to bed early. WHAT? And I only post that sort of nonsense because sometimes it takes me awhile to realize that my last tweet was something horrifically mortifying like CRAMPS! Menstruation, I loathe thee.

Recent research by Neilson is showing that only 40 percent of Twitter uses are active beyond a month.  I think I fall into the category.  Except that I keep coming back for more. 

Late at night when I'm writing and reflecting on the day it is ... energizing, to click over to a screen and participate in a seemingly real conversation.  You might think I've never been in a chat room, but let me assure you, I had Prodigy!  I was in chat rooms at the age of 10 ... before Instant Messenger and even before AOL.  It was called Q-Link actually, Quantum Link, and I'm superbly thankful to my father for forcing twentieth century technology on us in the early '90s because I got used to it early.  And like any good voter ... early and often is what I say.

I keep hearing news reports, actual NEWS time that could be filled with threatening stories of dangerous threats like Swine Flu! and violence and possibly more Swine Flu!news telling me that Twitter is worried that they are not keeping up with other social media outlets because records are showing that people really only remain an active user for about a month.  I wonder if they are counting in the spam users whose accounts get closed in a matter of days. 

Twitter takes time. It's an investment. If you are actively Twittering at work, you are not working.  If you are actively Twittering while at home, you are most definitely ignoring your child and possibly even neglecting to clean, launder and bathe yourself, maybe.  Just me?

I think Twitter is great but I can see how the novelty wears off quickly for many people.  There is so much in our world and there comes a time when you have to close the laptop and ... breathe.

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