Twitter

I tweet.

I like to say I use it mainly for "Business" but this isn't Exactly True and I'm not going to lie anymore.

I might keep lying. But I will have, at least, also published this Doctrine of Truth.

When I email songs, links & thoughts to friends & family, to be ultimately Ignored, it can sting...

but if I tweet the same thing, and get ignored by the whole world at once, it feels less Personal.

and it gets dually noted by the Internet Stenographer. It's a free record of my thoughts.

There have been, at least, Two other incidents that justify my usage:

1) The day it was announced Osama bin Laden had been killed. We were watching the TV, every station was running a banner that read "Important Announcement from the President in 10 Minutes" but none gave details. I flipped in vain for 10 minutes, then remembered Twitter, and found out the Actual news in 10 seconds.

2) Amanda was writing a hate poem about J.D. Drew. She wanted it to be Factual, so she had printed out statistics and articles, one of which was from the offseason he signed with the Red Sox. It was about the precautions he was taking to stay healthy for this new contract. Hyperbolic chambers and the same nutrition drinks Russian cosmonauts drink. Hilariously ironic things like that. I knew that I followed the article's author on Twitter, so I tweeted about reading it and hyperlinked him. Now it's 1230a and I'm in a bar getting a message from a journalist that reads:

"That was the last time I used the words "Russian Cosmonaut" in an article..."