Its fun, having the website back. Now, instead of wasting my time doing nothing, I can waste my time writing nonsense that no sane man is going to read. Which means I can throw my verbal hat into topics I know next to nothing about like that Twitter website that’s appeared from somewhere.

As I understand it, you get a Twitter feed, and you update it by either text message or IMing it with news of your day to day minutae. Minutia? Minutemen? Not sure. This is, according to Twitters own welcome page blurb, so business colleagues know if you’re running late, something else, and to let your mum know you’re eating soup.

As I understood it from my time updating a LiveJournal (otherwise known as “time I wasn’t being drunk in my first year of uni”), actual blogs are perfectly fine for the rubbish you get up to day by day, and as for stuff like running late for business meetings… I may well be chronically unemployed, and therefore too far out of the employment loop to understand, but if you’re stuck in traffic, and have a phone on you, its a lot more relaible to just, y’know, phone in and say you’ll be late. Just a thought.

Now, another use for Twitter seems to be sticking little news posts on your website, and I understand my gormless blogging service Wordpress has about 583 plugins to allow this, but I’ve not seen many around. I think there’s…

• Jeph Jacques on his site.
• Heccubus on much the same
• And Chefelf… somewhere. There was a Twitter section…

…but he’s got rid of it, mainly because he has a perfectly functional blog, and assumably a perfectly functional phone. Now, observing this short list, you’ll see that two of the aforementioned stuck it up there because its nifty and techy and stuff, and the other is an efamous webcomic artist who assumably wants people to know what sandwich he ate while drawing his wonderfully well drawn Friends-esque comic (insert obligatory “Nah, j/k, they’re cool” etc here, because nah, j/k they are all cool).

People like me, who haven’t done anything really interesting ever, and can’t afford credit on their phone anyway, do not need Twitter. Although it might be interesting to see if Henry Rollins has a Twitter feed. Henry Rollins is a badass. Did you know this? Maybe I should write about Henry Rollins instead of the latest Web 2.0 bollocks that’ll be steamrollered in about 3 years or so.