I have been heavily using Twitter as a way to satiate my instant news fix. I have a large long wide google reader list but it’s just not the same. Following the thoughts of the likes of Jonah Lehrer, astronomy professors, sci channel, science and the city etc has an immediacy and personability that reading blogs just doesn’t have.
Unfortunately though, I don’t know the rules. There seems to be some major etiquette about who to follow, how to reply etc. Unlike facebook which has a built in reciprocation strategy, it seems the users of Twitter have instituted its own. If anyone knows of a good article primer, please let me know.
It’s also some high level fun looking at the top twitted terms. It’s a global expression of thought emergence. I wonder if advertisers or stock brokers look to it for tips? I hope twitter extends the number of terms.