Twitter Shitter

It's funny how people think very different about using Twitter. After all the new social networks like MySpace, LinkedIn, Facebook and Hyves (most popular in Holland), one might think the market for these kind of initiatives would be full. So when Twitter came out in 2006, I did not see the relevance of it. I mean: who wants the restriction of posting within 140 characters - including spaces? It is like SMS for the Web. Needless to say, I wasn't convinced that there was a need for 'micro-blogging' as it was soon dubbed.

Also: who is interested in all this personal stuff that people suddenly are sharing (see cartoon on the left)? But, as it turned out, a great deal of people do like this service. I think it appealed mostly to the mobile phone generation; kids that grew up with SMS and are used to express themselves using short messages.

Whatever the social appeal of Twitter is - I guess it makes people feel they are connected to each other in a disconnected society - a lot of people like to make fun of it. So I came across these top 25 cartoons and they made me chuckle a bit on this Sunday morning. So check them out ;-)