Glenn Fleishman begs the question about the usefulness of Twitter tonight with his most recent TidBITS piece - Conversions of a Twitter revert. As a casual Twitter user, I can understand Glenn's perspective. But I am not throwing in the towel on Twitter just yet. Compared to play things like Facebook and MySpace, Twitter is full of usefulness. How am I using Twitter? I use it to write about tidbits of life and things that I encounter online that are not really worthy of full-fledged posts on Mac Net Journal. It is a middle road between the time investment of writing pieces on MNJ and the posts I refer to on my Google Reader feed that shows the most recent items in the left sidebar on this site. It's an efficient way to say something without completely breaking from the flow of other things I am doing throughout the day. How might I use Twitter in the future? Well, I see other potential uses for the community that can be created on Twitter. Some organizations are using it as a platform for breaking news or as a way to communicate with remote teams, and it may be useful as a communications tool for my regular daytime work. It could provide another way for people to subscribe and follow what is happening on a topical basis from trusted sources, something smaller and more personal than RSS feeds. The trick is finding those trusted sources. I am still waiting to see what happens with Twitter as a platform before commiting real resources to it. But so far I am enjoying the experiment.

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