A long ass blog post about @Twitter

I’ve been on twitter for about 2 and a half years now… A lot of people knock it but that’s because they don’t really understand it.

I did not understand it at first, I joined via my blackberry curve dig the google sync only buddy of mine that was on it was @itsreallysue who is awesome and weird like me. So off to a good start the app was very simple just asked, “What are you doing?” and provides a blank space. I thought Hmm, should I just type what I’m doing? what kind of crap is this?

After a day of fiddling around like most first users I abandoned it for a few months saying hi to sue here and there. Towards the end of 2008 when Android finally released the G1, Twitter became a new world. At first I used it for “Microblogging” what it was dubbed as, at first. Writing short blog post or mini stories, one tweet at a time. The followers started to come and Twitter started to Rock.

Today, I still get a lot of people I come across who still don’t understand it, or just hear about it here and there on the news and feel it’s immature. The usual, “Oh you be tweeting son?” , “Why do you tweet? that shit is stupid”, or “It’s a waste of time”. “You’re not learning anything..”

But actually I am learning a ton, about current events, politics,hood/ghetto  crap, funny stuff,gadgets,music,art,design.You can follow your favorite celebs, rappers comedian which I refrain from doing because from experience a lot of them are better on TV than on your timeline.

The list goes on and on and on because on twitter, You create your own world. You decide who to follow and when to stop following. In some cases it could be a high-school cafeteria where you can just peek in and chat with friends.

Or a town hall meeting discussing politics current events, even a street corner where everyone is sharing the latest gossips, having TWEEFS(twitter beefs) and letting out their frustrations. This is communication and human connection at its finest, in its purest and pretty much unsupervised form.

I have people from all over the world on my timeline and at any given moment I can peek in and hear news,drama,comedy,interesting or just some random annoying stupid comment that will get a reaction out of me. Even get me involved in a “TWEEF”.

Like any other social networking web app, you have to use your brain and put out what you feel comfortable having out there. You can also make your account private and only have a select group of people you select involved. However I have learned a ton and continue to learn everyday. I have learned about different people, how they think and operate.

What moves them in groups, the type of people who enjoy stirring up conflict and controversy. The crazy thing is I did not set out to learn any of this stuff it just kind of comes to you. Patterns of behavior, routines, etc.

Twitter is an experience, that is not easy to put into words because it is different and unique for every  person. As long as you understand that, then you can begin to explore this and mold it to something of your liking where it will no longer be confusing. But use it wisely because as easily as I have learned about people without setting out to.

Others who do set out to with a purpose can use it as a tool, that has proven much more powerful than facebook,myspace or anything else that can fit into the category of a social networking web application…. Well I guess that’s all I have to yap about today. I just had a huge brainstorm about twitter and said hey you know what I’ve been using this jammer for over 2 years let me take a crack at it.