Lists or How Twitter Has Taken Over My Life

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I first read about twitter lists on Jessica Gottlieb a few days ago. And to be honest if I’d read about them even a month ago I would probably have thought ‘Really? What’s the point of that? Wouldn’t you just use your twitter/feed/app/whatever?’ But recently, due to my increasing twitter addiction, this doesn’t seem so far fetched at all. This way I have a list so I don’t miss out on things and people can make suggestions and you can share your lists. Shut Up. I do not need to get a life.

I checked out MixTweet and created two lists: Attachment Parenting and Parent Bloggers. Mike from MixTweet has even featured the Attachment Parenting list on the MixTweet Blog. Feel free to drop me a line if you have any suggestions.

I’ll admit it. When I first started using twitter I didn’t get it. I totally did not get it. Part of that is because in Australia you can only update through the internet. So unless you have mobile internet most of the time when you’re greeted with Twitter’s ‘What are you doing?’, you think to yourself, ‘not much, I’m at home avoiding cleaning/washing/work’. And the whole thing is rather confusing because no one is actually updating their status anyway. But once you get over the fact that you’re talking to heaps of random people like you would to a diary, it’s oddly addictive. One thing that I’m glad of is that I had the foresight not to give any of my friends my twitter username, so I could be relatively uncensored. And Mr Goog isn’t allowed to follow me.

Then one day you wake up and are having in-jokes with people you’ve never met, you’re looking at lists to organise your feed and you’re looking at your ipod touch willing it to have a camera so you can send pictures via twitter without having to transfer from your camera.