Time for another status report from Twitterland (is that the correct name, or is it “twitosphere” or “information super bridleway” or something?).  Here are some more disjointed thoughts (is Twitter affecting my ability to combine multiple sentences into coherent prose?).

Since I started this little adventure I’ve been paying more attention to the media coverage of Twitter. Andrew Orlowski at the Register lays into Twitter and the media’s (the BBC’s) obsession with it:

Writing about Twitter is the journalistic equivalent of eating the fluff from your navel.

…The rest of the world, however, completely ignores it. But with the journalists’ attention fixed firmly on each others’ navels, they don’t seem to realise what a fringe activity Twitter is.

…Twitter is a bit of a charity-case itself: both technically and financially, it’s a lost cause. That’s plain to everybody, it seems, except the journalists who use it and who can’t stop Twittering about Twitter.

Orlowski’s piece references “Twestival”. I tracked down this disturbing footage of the London event via the BBC (who else?).  It’s a few dozen geeks with iPhones standing around ignoring each other while sending tweets to other people who aren’t there. These people need to get out less.

After 5 days, the initial novelty has worn off.   Maybe I should approach tweeting in a different way? Perhaps every message should be a haiku?

One problem with Twitter content, regardless of who you are following, is that each obfuscated URL is a leap of faith and the messages are usually too truncated to provide any meaningful context.

I haven’t posted many Twitter messages in the last two days.  I’m still trying to figure out how best to use Twitter.  What should I tweet?  Should I stay on-topic (software development and tangentally related things) or should I branch out to anything that comes to mind?  I’m thinking this would be counter-productive as people who are following me mostly came via this blog and are unlikely to share my other interests.  Without some kind of focus it becomes Facebook without the functionality.  I’m also proud of the fact that I’m 5 days in and I have yet to tweet the details of anything that I have ingested.

I also need to find more people to follow.  I’ve been through Jurgen’s list and picked out a few more people that might be of interest.