Dethroned

...What?! After a fifteen month hiatus, Spidey has swooped in to steal back the blogging throne?! How can this be?

But despite dear Spidey's fairweather blogging, he makes some good points. He even touched on Twitter, which I've been getting a lot of questions about lately. But first to defend my throne:

6 Reasons I'm a Better Tweeter than Spidey!

1. Dude, I said "tweeter." That's ten points right there.

2. I posted it first.

3. I would never liveblog Lost. ...I'd go for Hell's Kitchen.
(OMG no he didn't just kick that trash can 12 minutes ago from web)

4. I have 56 followers. Take that Jeff, with your close-knit circle of 3 people you actually know! (That's the nature of Twitter, isn't it? I have no idea how/why these people have added me.)

5. I also make keep an eye on Twitter peripherals, which can be pretty fun (if not "useful"). Check out Twist, which uses Twitter to show you trends in what people are tweeting about. Or use Tweetclouds! You know what? Just check out this list of 17 Ways to Visualize the Twitter Universe and be done with it.

6. While I'm not a Twitterholic, I can use words like "Twictionary" without batting an eye.

Alright, all joking aside, there are a few things about Twitter that I'd like to tack on to Jeff's points.

First off, to me, Twitter is about immediacy. Things that would make a frivolous blog post are what tweeting was made for. Jeff mentioned that it's about making your voice heard, but I'd add that it's about being heard now.

Secondly, since I last posted about Twitter over a year ago, it has borne a new functionality for me: quick, relevant news. My two most solid examples would be this winter's writers' strike and the upcoming presidential election. By subscribing to relevant Twitter feeds, I keep as on-top of what's happening as if I were constantly reading the scrolling text on the bottom of a TV news show. Especially with the writers' strike, each little bit of information helped build a larger picture--it acted like a tiny RSS feed.


That all being said, if you were to still tell me that Twitter seems useless I would not disagree with you. I would say that tweeting has as much merit as blogging, posting on message boards or engaging with any social networking at all-- same food, different portions.


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