Earlier this year, I started using twitter. I was not at all convinced it would be worth my time. I didn’t really understand why I would want to tell people “what I’m doing right now.”

While some people literally tweet what they’re doing every five minutes, I discovered that many people don’t. And so now, I “get it”. I’ve found the key is not follow a lot of people – I currently follow about 70 – otherwise it’s a firehose.

What I get out of twitter is access to conversations that those that I’m interested in are having. It helps me keep up with the news a bit more than reading blogs, although anything important always shows up on a blog at some point anyway. Also, many heated conversations on twitter originate from a blog post.

So I think blogging is here to stay for a while, despite what some may think.

However, it occurred to me that I’ve blogged a lot less in the past couple months, because it’s much more convenient for me to tweet a link or an idea, than it is to write up a blog post. So while both Brian and I will continue to blog here, you should follow us on twitter:

Jeff on twitter

Brian on twitter

Anytime we have something to announce, teach, entertain, or waste your time with that fits into 140 characters or less, we’ll use twitter instead.

I will say that I don’t understand how some people follow 800 other people. Unless you’re watching the stream all day long, or using another tool to analyze/summarize it for you (which is cool).

And I don’t understand tweets like, “Having dinner with my wife.” Imagine, you’re sitting there eating dinner… “Uh huh, yes dear, exactly… hold on a minute, i have to get my cell phone out so i can text something to twitter…”