I retract what I wrote about Twitter--this is no joke.

Twitter does serve a critical purpose. In Haiti, it has been crucial to channeling effort into productivity, and in Egypt it has proved vital in transmitting life-saving information. I may wish it was put to better use by some of the people who use it, but it does WAY MORE GOOD than harm. Anybody who was offended by my criticism of Twitter, I owe you an apology.

I think the dumbest post I ever wrote on DU was to criticize Twitter. I was very wrong and engaging in tunnelvision. If it had not been for Twitter, I would not have been able to help with the crisis in Haiti, and obviously with developments in Egypt, Twitter is more than a cute device; it is a life preserver.

Twitter has proven its value, in spades.

I am deeply sorry for minimizing the importance of this amazing tool.

All the cool kids are doing it.

Generally used by twits.

i thought it was lame because anybody can change the info on it

apparently it is monitored well

now I use it all the time

which tweet goes something like this...

Done for the day, time to knock it off. Ah TEA!

But abroad it is a great and amazing tool.

We COULD use it the same way, but I guess we're not ready to go beyond navel grazing.

You're not the first. ;-)

you see at times... that drives me batty

TalkNerdyy2Me chaNel ELLison
Pay attention to everything that's been goin on lately, Egypt,this crazy weather, our days are numbered
4 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply

Can't you give me a break?

while the rest are on what is going on. (Ok mostly)

Like eating smegma?

I knew there was some reason other than its name that I didn't become a user.

Yuck

it does a good job.

It's great for reporting up to the minute world developments.

It's terrible and completely useless when reporting food stuck between ones teeth.

http://blogslut.com/blogslut

I think it's handy.

he uses the f-word on everybody. :D