I love Twitter but …

June 4, 2008 | In Technology | No Comments

Like many tech philes I have been enamored with the service “Twitter.” It’s a difficult thing to explain but I think this video does it as good as anything.

Video by Common Craft.

I have been using Twitter myself for quiet a while, since it was just a little birdie as it were, going back to early February 2007. Since that time I’ve only actually known a couple people who Twitter and yet, I have seen my viewers swell to over 80 people.

I now have a goal to expand that to 100 people by the end of September. Not sure how I’m going to do it but so far the people who follow me just seem to do it on their own, I’m going to let it happen organically. I’ve gone up over 20 people in about a month so it’s not unlikely.

The problem I find with Twitter, and a complaint that many users have, is the constant instability of the service. It is almost constantly down. That makes for a difficult user experience. And yet almost all of us continue to return to the simple social networking service.

I lost interest in FaceBook before I started using it and the MySpace experience is awful. It’s all about Twitter — at least when it works.

You can follow me right from my blog, otherwise friend me up on twitter.com/rjw3. Let me know if you do and I’ll follow you back. It’s worth it I swear.