Twitter.com

I’d been hearing about Twitter.com for some time now, particularly from the TWIT podcasts. (Leo Laporte uses this service quite a bit!) So, I decided to sign up for it last night.

The gist of it is this. Whenever you feel like it, you twit: Answer the question, “What are you doing?” in 140 characters or less. (Or don’t answer the question at all…) When you add “friends” to “follow,” you can see what they’re all up to, creating a type of feed that can be somehow fun to check in with.

I’m not sure just how awesome this is, but it seems interesting enough for me to try it out. There’s also a dashboard widget among many other methods (IM, SMS, other apps) to make twitting as effortless as possible.

If you sign up, add me—I’m djthread.

Update: Talking to a friend, we decided this is the opposite of stalking. The stalkee continuously broadcasts everything to everybody rather than the stalker trying to “pull” the information surreptitiously.

Update 2: There’s a way to twit from Firefox and a wiki full of more alternatives.

Update 3: omg if ur on os x, Twitterific is nice!