You’re Twittering from where?
Bryan May 21st, 2008
This is a post for Watercooler Wednesday.
When I first signed up for Twitter months ago, I must confess I didn’t get it. Who wants to keep refreshing a web page to see what their friends are doing? Apparently they added the interfaces to IM and SMS after I signed up or I just missed them. Updating my twitter from the web, Facebook, my instant messaging client or my phone allows me to share some really cool (and some really ordinary) moments with my friends. But best of all, those special moments my friends choose to share with me get delivered to my phone automatically.
Twitter has really helped me to know more about my twittering friends, like fellow blogger Randy Elrod of Ethos. And I suppose I shouldn’t have been surprised at all to learn that another fellow blogger, Tom Mangan of Two Heel Drive, twitters as well.
It surprises me how much detail people can actually share in 140 characters. But what has really surprised me is how much people twitter from unusual places. Such as
- Randy has a great post on what he calls Light Work (checking email and updating Twitter at red lights)
- I’ve twittered from the hiking trail before (it’s not every day you run into a modeling shoot on the trail)
- You know you’ve twittered from the bathroom… Don’t lie
But this tells me that Twitter has arrived. Crow will be twittering a journal of her thru-hike of the Pacific Crest Trail. That’s right. No more waiting to transcribe a journal entry (wifi coverage is pretty spotty in the backcountry you know). Now all she has to worry about is keeping that Crackberry charged up.
What are the strange places you’ve twittered from?
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I don’t typically go to strange places - i have been known to twitter and text during church (during the down time, like the sermon), jk. I hope to be twittering in Africa when I’m there in June. That will be cool.
Tweeting from Africa will definitely be cool.
I’ll be in Rwanda in the northeast part of the country near a place called Ruhengeri. Mission trip with e3partners.org. Can’t wait to be there. I’ve been once before. Didn’t have cell phone access at the time. We’re better equipped now.
Hi Bryan!
I really love how only having 140 characters makes me get creative. It really makes you get down to the point. Wanted to tell you that I really enjoy “following” you, you seem to do some interesting things and you are always eating good food! I’ve only been on Twitter for a couple of weeks now, so honestly I can’t think of anywhere that unusual, however that just means that something and/or somewhere very unique and exciting is just around the corner!!!
Thanks Audra! I’m enjoying your tweets as well. Glad I’ll be among the first to see your tweet from the unusual location!