The Twitter addiction
Tue May 27th, 2008Twitter, the Ruby on Rails bastard child, and focus of much debate about Ruby’s potential scale issues, is a site I’ve used in for the better part of a year that has been on my mind of late. The site is loved by many and misunderstood by the masses. For those of you who love it, you’re likely addicted, and it’s this addiction that I’m mildly interested in talking about here.
I recently took a family vacation to South Korea, where my iPhone doesn’t work (blessing in disguise). As such, I was essentially cut off from updating my Twitter profile. Sure I could have done my updates through the website, but come on, after a full day of running around bowing, eating, bowing, and faking my way through Korean with extended family, the very last thing I wanted to do was boot up the laptop and log onto twitter to summarize my day in TXT sized bites. No thank you. So I essentially went without Twitter for two weeks.
And now, as I’ve been sitting here for the better part of two weeks, I’ve totaled two or three Twitter updates, and am finding it rather hard to think of a reason to update my profile. Let alone allocate the time or attention to follow along with other peoples banter, and engage in conversation. Did I loose my interest, or perhaps I’m just not fully back into the swing of my old daily routine. In either case, it seems, at least for the immediate moment, my addiction is broken, and hopefully, for the sake of my family and my business, it’s a good thing.
Ultimately, what I’m curious about in the longer term, is how much Twitter hype & activity is sustainable. Is Twitter ultimately a fad that will eventually morph into the next coolest gadget in online web crack? I suppose only time will tell. Until then, you can follow me on Twitter and see if I eventually come out of hibernation.