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Thank You, Stack Exchange.
For the past couple years, I've been participating in an online web-programming question and answer site - Stack Overflow - and various other sites within the Stack Exchange family: Gaming, Cooking, Apple products, and even Board Games. Recently, I've earned the fabulous prizes shown here for creating good site content: an iPod Touch, CookWise by Shirley O. Corriher
Thank you, Stack Exchange.
What Twitter is Good For.
Apropos of this "explanation" of various social media offerings, I was talking with a friend about what Twitter is good for. Based on my usage, here's what I came up with.
- Tracking Seattle food trucks.
- To quickly share photos from my iPhone, usually of things I've made and / or will eat.
- To read jokes.
- To see interesting glass.
Yep - I think that's a pretty accurate summation of what Twitter is good for.
Not the Internet.
Fifteen years ago, there was AOL. It was not the Internet.
Five years ago, there was MySpace. It was not the Internet.
Now we have Facebook and Twitter. Remember: they are not the internet.
Twitter Knows When You Are Sleeping.
I found a most amusing Twitter data contrivance: www.sleepingtime.org/. Based on tweets, SleepingTime.org will tell you when someone (likely) sleeps. Check it out:
