Got the Twitterbug?

I haven't, and I object to this in The Guardian:

At first glimpse, it seems vacuous and empty: just another "look at me" service like blogging or MySpace - and likely to draw derision from mainstream users or those snorting fuddies who think the kids are an alien species who will eventually grow up to be Just Like Them.

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Can't something draw derision just because at first glance its vacuous and empty and a "just look at me" service

(btw I have kids - and they are an alien species, they all chat on World of Warcraft - the twitterbugs ain't the kids any more either!.)

My view is probably echoed most closely by M Parekh here:

To younger internet users and European/Asian cell phone users, Twitter may seem as nothing special at first glance, given that those groups are already huge adopters of instant messaging and SMS text messaging respectively, for some time now.

i.e the current "good enoughs" are good enough for now - in Europe, anyway. In all seriousness, I think at some point a usable combined sms/IM/mail service will have a use, but I don't think this one scales that easily, especially if ones' friends twitter like canaries about the incredible lightness of their being. I think Dave Winer puts it well when he says:

At the very least this is a good sandbox for experimentation. As I said yesterday, what matters is that there are users.

Or Matthew Ingram:

I also think it is another piece of the puzzle when it comes to understanding how we relate to each other in an online world, and how those relationship mechanisms are changing.

There are benefits to being late Early Adopters sometimes

As noted in our earlier (exceedingly witty and erudite) posts, for Twitter to glittr, it has to:

- Get a better Signal to Noise Ratio

- have more to recommend it than being the vehicle du jour of the chatterati - nearly all the use cases to date were once advanced for email, sms, egroups rss etc etc

However, we have decided to make available our incredibly valuable blog content on Twitter - as a public service, you understand! I was influenced mainly by this post and the above, i.e. lets start playong with it and see what else we can make it do apart from filling empty heads with vacuous stuff.

But give it a go, make your own mind up. But I don't want to know what you had for lunch thank you!