The Twitter Stream

I love Twitter. I tried it when it first appeared but I didn't get it at the time. But it takes time for human behaviour to wrap itself around new media. The first enthusiasts would fill the 140 character void with word burps like "I just had a shower and I feel good." It was really the same response you see when people enter an echo space; they'll say anything at all just to hear how it sounds. I have a low threshold for verbal trivia so I walked away from Twitter.

But I'm back as a penitant. In its couple years of accelerated evolution, we've seen Twitter transformed into a medium of great vitality. I use it as a news alert service, as a way to stay in stay in touch with friends both far and near, but most interestingly, to follow a few Tweeters who have developed a new kind of authorship that is a stream of serial bursts. Roger Ebert (ebertchicago) has found a replacement voice in Twitter. He's expansive, generous and and endlessly curious. Astronaut Soichi Noguchi (astro_soichi) sends hallucinatory daily photos from space. Doug Saunders (dougsaunders), foreign correspondent for the Globe and Mail, sends world-weary dispatches from all over that are rich with outrage and irony.

I'm not an habitual tweeter; I'll cast a pebble into the pond every day or two. I offer my own Twitter stream below. You can read my follows at left.

My Recent Tweets

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	jhanna
follow:	Click to follow me
bio:	Still putting the fun back into dysfunctional
updates:	565
followers:	120
following:	267
Last 20 following: View All...

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updates

Last 8 tweets in past 30 days from jhanna:
	From Twitter for iPhone jhanna:Tmrw roasting untamed Ethiopian Harrar and Sumatran Mandehling decaf. Clouds & wind expected. Come by the boat for coffee & backgammon.
	From Twitter for iPhone jhanna:Saddened. The Hair Show cancelled due to high winds.
	From Twitter for iPhone jhanna:Ferry Ongiara cuts across our bows. Captain Buster says "Ramming Speed" http://twitpic.com/2l90ti
	From Twitter for iPad jhanna:Lookin' good, Mr B: “busterbadboy: Annual grooming yesterday. Who wants to see my Beat-the-Heat new look? http://twitpic.com/2km8lu”
	From Twitter for iPad jhanna:What about the Old Painted Lady? The CNE? Is she a little out of touch? Time for the home? Or time for a makeover?
	From HelTweetica jhanna:Ever wonder why some of your (ex-)follows go on and on about the next airport in their lives? http://is.gd/eNil6
	From HelTweetica jhanna:6 guys in 35' powerboat tie up. Click psss go pull tabs. 70's rock on sound system. Shout monosyllables at each other. My hell begins.
	From HelTweetica jhanna:Hr 1 of single malt "nosing": PowerPoint, taking notes. Hr 2: braying, whooping, chasing each other round the table. Work o' the devil.