If I wasn’t working in an IT-Company I probably wouldn’t have joined twitter and I have to admit, so far I’ve not twitterd very much.
But I frequently check what my colleagues are up to and what sort of information they are sharing with the world. Looking at a twitter history of a colleague recently, I was reminded of my early days of online communication. I checked other twitter accounts too and found that a lot of twitter users display nothing more but simple chat conversations, put online for the rest of us to read…
I wonder what I and million others would have done if Yahoo (my chat software of choice from 1998 till late 2002) would have stored our conversations back and made them public to everyone. How fun would it be to look back at those conversations, when I used to spend up to 14 hours of my weekend at the campus in chat rooms, talking to people all over the world (doing that at home would have cost me a fortune). By 2004 I had lost complete interest in that sort of conversation. I don’t even know why, I just grew tired.
But I get the impression that this kind of conversation is having a come back. People are sitting in front of the computer, typing away their short twitter messages and wait for response. Even more important these days, typing in a message in their I-Phone or other cell phones and waiting what others have to say.
If I look at it this way, I started twittering and blogging in 1998, long before those two words where even in the minds of anyone, but to go to a chartroom is sooo 90ties – let’s call it twittering and it is an up and coming new trend 😉