A great introduction to the insanely popular twitter by technology journalist David Pogue. He puts it this way:
“Is twitter a time drain? Yes. Is it another one of those ego things like How many friends do I have? Yes. It it a fad? Yes. But is it addictive, powerful and very entertaining? Yes.”
That about sums it up. I’d add that it’s especially powerful if you already have some kind of authority or popularity like, oh, I don’t know, a best selling technology journalist.
The rest of us have to work it like a monkey cracking a coconut–banging away at it until something gives.
Definitely worth your time if you want to get up to speed on social media’s current craze. You can watch the video here (sorry, no embed option):
NYTimes.com Video: Twitter – David Pogue answers a few questions about Twitter, a free Web tool
