Following on Lucky's post - I'm giving Twitter another try. I used to think that micro-posts like "I'm riding the train home from work" were kind of pointless- but I've since been following a few Twitter feeds, and it is kind of fascinating to get some insight into people's every day happenings. I've posted the applet in my blog sidebar ---->
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The only real use I see myself getting out of it personally is looking back in a couple years and recalling what was going on in my life.
I guess I could see it being more interesting in the short term if you had a lot of followers or were following lots of others.
I suggest checking the Tweets people post to decide. Maybe they post worthwhile article or site links. Maybe they share funny/entertaining links. Perhaps they found a cool video that is Sift worthy. It depends on what interests you. Some Twits are just interesting to follow.
Some famous people post Tweets as well. And some websites have someone post official Tweets, i.e., Twitter (naturally), Pandora, Mashable, MyBlogLog, BlogCatalog. Who knows, maybe SiftBot will start Tweeting.
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Should you become a Twittering Twit, here is my profile in case you feel compelled to follow me. Yes, there is Twitter lingo too . . .
http://twitter.com/dotartdude
http://twitter.com/chucknorris
http://twitter.com/HenryRollins