A reason (of sorts) for supporting Twitter growth

Was on the train this am...delayed, crowded....sitting opposite this woman, who then proceeded to flip open her mobile and talk total and utter drivel the whole way - some 30 mins. You could see the people around her getting more and more irritated - the hope in their faces when one call was finished, replaced by silent frustration as the next call was opened up.

(A note to airlines who want to put mobile calls in-flight - don't !. I can see so many "phone rage" incidents occurring...)

Anyway, what she was doing was that sort of social grooming stuff that GigaOm's Anne Zelenka thought Twitter was ideal for....

Isn’t that what human interaction is like? Sometimes there’s an urge to say something just for the sake of saying something — just for the sake of interaction or recognition. Sometimes there’s conversation that doesn’t really mean anything; there’s no signal in the noise of ambient intimacy

...so it occurred to me, if she had been Twittering her life away she would have been happy, and so would we have been.