smeddley: (Abandon Hope)
smeddley ([personal profile] smeddley) wrote2009-06-29 07:44 am

Come to the dark side...

...we have Twitter.

I find myself more and more drawn to Twitter, and it feels... dirty. But the ease of updating from a phone, and the lack of pressure to write anything profound... well, it's a powerful thing. Like this morning - the only things I have to say are that I don't want to be at work and my mini-fridge smells strongly of strawberries. Hardly LJ-post worthy, but an average Tweet. Of course, there are plenty of things you can't Tweet - like my post with the crochet pattern. So I'm not saying I'm abandoning LJ (I just renewed my paid account!), but during the day I see myself reading LJ and Tweeting, then updating/commenting on LJ from home.

I do have one question for y'all about Twitter - when you Tweet, it puts your username first. Do you treat this as the beginning of the sentence or do you look at it as if it were a script and there's an implied colon? Basically, are you a first-person Tweeter or a third-person Tweeter?

Smeddley does not want to be at work today.
vs.
Smeddley: I don't want to be at work today.

[identity profile] clare-dragonfly.livejournal.com 2009-06-29 05:16 pm (UTC)(link)
Or do I mean first person? I think I mean first person. I'm at work, I can't be expected to understand words today.

[identity profile] smeddley.livejournal.com 2009-06-30 12:29 pm (UTC)(link)
You do mean first person, yes, but I completely understand about work turning your brain to jello. Mine's a lovely layered black cherry and lime today...

I hadn't really thought about the Tweets other than the 'I am' - even though I've made them - so that's another good point. Sure, you could switch back and forth, but better to be consistant.

[identity profile] clare-dragonfly.livejournal.com 2009-06-30 04:12 pm (UTC)(link)
Black cherry and lime jello sounds oddly delicious considering I like neither lime nor jello. Though I think I liked lime jello as a kid.