So, this Twitter thing all the young people are doing

I'm on Twitter as "traalfaz". I mainly set up to throw some sand in the gears over in Tehran - Minnehaha suggests that the Iranian Security Forces (ptew!) are searching for Twits with their location set to Tehran and their time zone to GMT +3.5. So I set up an account for that. But as long as it's set up, I might as well at least pay attention to it and kick the tires a bit.

Guess I'll look to see who else is on this thing. I've updated my gt.org decadelist entry to show my AIM and Twitter usernames.

Hmm, folks don't seem to have put their twitter names (or anything else) in their decadebook entries. If you're on twitter, let me know (here or email).

Twitter = half-assed junk

OK, it took the thing about 12 hours to start following the people I clicked on. Then about 2 hours later it starts adding all kinds of moronic crap for me to follow - like entertainment news, 50cent, etc, and all kinds of idiotic crap starts following me.

OK, fine, I'm protected now and removed the followers/followees that I didn't want.

Clearly either they're having massive database problems, or their system is compromised and my account is getting set to follow others for some other purpose like driving up someone's numbers or something.

As I posted elsewhere, this looks like someone's weekend project that suddenly exploded in popularity and they can't handle it. It's ugly, broken, slow, and it honestly hardly does anything interesting. I'm just not seeing the appeal. It's not like posting messages on a website via texting is even a new trick.