Tweets
As you can see, the blog now records the “tweets” I have made on twitter during the previous week. Almost all the tweets I make are automated – itunes “tweets” every time I play something.
I wondered if there was a pattern and there is. Quite a lot of what I listen to is for work: at the moment I am mixing music for my school’s cheerleading squad. I can honestly say that I am not listening to that for pleasure! I am also editing and organising a wide variety of music at the moment for a dance show we are doing in June so that shows up as a lot of listening. I use itunes to provide backing tracks when I practice my Saxophones too, so these show up and occasionally, I just listen to music!
I am still not sure what I think about Twitter. Is it a social revolution? Of course not! No technology is revolutionary in itself: it becomes a revolution when people start to live different lives in response to it. I have not noticed any aspect of my life changing as a result of Twitter – at least, not yet. Twitter is interesting though: it is good to see people exploring what they can do with what is a simple (but maybe brilliant) concept. I already like the breaking news services and stay in touch with a few web sites that I enjoy. I do not have a thriving network of real people to “follow” – anyone I might be interested in is too busy to send many tweets.
I will stick with Twitter for a while and see what happens.