Sunday, 12 April 2009

All we hear is Radio ga ga

That is quite clearly a Queen reference, and it has two reasons:
1. On Wednesday I saw the "We Will Rock You" show which was awesome.
2. Queen rule.
Anyway, anyone who reads my Twittering knows that I was updating at the show and this brings me onto today's subject.

Twitter, when I first heard what it was from the wonderful Stephen Fry, it sounded like rubbish, and then, when I signed up recently my first impression of it was reinforced. But by actually using it, by ignoring the absurdity, the uselessness of it, I caught the bug. That's right, I caught the Twitter bug. I'm now updating several times a day. And I'm not the only one.

Over the past few years we've all learnt how addictive Myspace and Facebook can be, both are seemingly pointless creations, what's wrong with the phone? It worked for Alexander Graham Bell, well sort of, it would have if he had anyone to phone. But despite being more complicated, soundless versions of the phone, we were all eventually infected. Many more similar sites have appeared and dissapeared, not being able to match the huge numbers that make up Facebook and Myspace. Twitter though, I can see it surviving. And the most ironic thing is, it will survive because it's so useless.

I wonder what 2010 and 2011 will provide us? Can we have anything else that's different, I mean, just last night I signed up for a Twitter-style YouTube named 12seconds. I'm going the end things here as I started writing this with a point but I think I'm not making one anymore, for more information on 12seconds and Twitter, here are the links.
http://12seconds.tv/ http://twitter.com/

Chris-x

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