Twitter is an interesting idea, but as I joke with Liberty, telling a bunch of random fellows that you are going to “eat some cheese” borders on megalomania.  Sure, potential exists for other possible uses like getting out of jail in egypt, but examples like this stand in almost insane opposite to “decided my farts smell like toast”.  It’s a matter of depth, ya know?

Now Plurk seems to add another layer to their Twitter clone by color coding their entries based upon what you are actually doing or ‘verbing’.  For instance, If I say “Jimmy feels like enjoying a string cheese”, the word feels gets highlighted to a specific color.  Also, if you want to share a link or a video, it automatically converts the link based upon the url ending.  So a jpg will show up as a mini image in your little plurk.  So it adds just the smallest amount of depth to your twitter-like experience.  It is like a personal mini-tumblr.

Besides, twitter is having massive problems of scale (clicky, you will enjoy).  Now is the time to check out those other services…

Hi all,

I’ve been delaying my second post about Twitter mostly because I wanted to get a better handle on its many benefits and uses. Luckily, Rand Fishkin posted a video blog this morning about Twitter so I’ll let him take the floor.

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/whiteboard-friday-adopting-twitter

By the way, I’m posting this link to Twitter.

So lately, twitter has been on the scene in more than one instance. I had three meetings last week with “traditional” marketing clients and they were all buzzing about twitter. The topic, was “why twitter, another tool to make you less productive at work.”

Okay, well why this may seem the case at first glance. I’ll provide you with one of two benefits in this post. The first of which is my take on the evolution of electronic communication, the second in a separate post will be on how Twitter can impact media and affiliates.

First, think about it…while you love your friends and family and would honestly like to have the time to talk on the phone with them for 2 hours every time they call, and boy, wouldn’t we love them to talk to us when we call as well, the truth of the matter is we just don’t believe we have the time to talk, so we don’t. Luckily, email came into play.

Email became a quick and easy way to communicate, but shortly it also became a time consuming and obligatory effort. While sending an email to a friend with subject line “Hi” quickly became spam and a completely moronic way to send a communication just to say hi, turned into a back and forth message of superficial catch up and not really communicating or catching up. You find yourself emailing back and forth in this endless email communication with friends that really wasn’t qualitative to either party involved.

So, even better, instant messaging came out. Finally, a way to say hi quickly and yet, unproductively. Once again you find yourself in and endless irrelevent chat with friends that leaves you unproductive and unsatisfied. (btw, I did not forget about text messaging - this takes too long unless you are tweenager and have fingers that text at 80 mph).

So, finally…Twitter arrived. A way to blast communicate to friends and family to keep them up to date on what’s happening in your life. A way to tap into your mentors, friends, and families lives without the obligation of chat…but yet more personal. Kinda. With the ability to reply, etc. at your own leisure and others leisure.

Of course there is more to Twitter than just this which I will attempt to cover in my next post….
Right now, I’m on the beach of Hawaii and not sure why I am blogging about Twitter (my new obsession). Until tomorrow, or next Wednesday. Twitter long, twitter hard, and most importantly…just Twitter.